Things were a touch slow for a few days so I was tasked with drawing up some potential revisions to our offices as we try to accommodate additional staff.
After a year away from drafting, it was surprisingly hard to get back into the flow. Admittedly AutoCAD looks a bit different from what I remembered, and four years or ArchiCAD certainly didn’t help.
But the hardest part was just a lack of practice. Fundamentals may stick around forever, but the skills and instincts that differentiate between competent and good deteriorate quickly!
Of course I jumped into the easy part first, doodling on floor plans. But the office is small and there aren’t that many options. So once I hit that wall, I realized I had to regroup and start talking with everyone to get a feel for what was actually needed.
Fire-Aim-Ready. Rookie move.
Oh and yeah, like all projects, scope creep definitely happened. Converting a storage room into a couple offices somehow resulted in walking around the Building & Grounds and Inspection groups to measure up their spaces.
Even so, it was a fun couple days, and now we’ll see what the guys upstairs think.