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There's a huge range of how much freehand sketching happens in various firms, and these skills are still be very important to many.
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#Jacquard design drafting by hand manual
These days students have one semester of manual drafting at the absolute most (and many have none.) And those were people who had taken multiple drafting courses and had to hand-draft all their studio projects for several years before they even got to the firms. Older architects talk about internships in which they were required to spend 2 hours per day for several months just practicing lettering and lineweights before they were allowed to touch an actual CD set. I think it would be difficult to find younger employees these days who have really strong manual drafting skills. Some local zoning offices even require CAD drawings from us. Larger clients expect full integration with their existing CAD-based facilities drawings.
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Even our small, residential clients are "sophisticated" enough that they expect to send us CAD files from their surveyors, receive emailed 3D models that they can spin around on their home computers, etc. I don't think our clients would stand for hand-drafted sets. Our local reprographics place tells us that 1 in 20 sets that they see are still drafted by hand - but that these are very small sets from aging architects in 1 or 2-person firms.