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>> the AIA just issued a report that their members report no productivity gains with CAD << Thats because most of them do not use the computer properly. 3 Years ago I did a project 200bed Psychiatrical clinic, parts of it new parts of it rebuild. It took me about 4 1/2 months work (day in day out at 10hours a day). I then compared it to a project my father dreaw a few years earlier himself about same proportions, it turned out I did about 40% quicker. You have to see I drew 21 A0 format plans in 10 weeks thats about one plan fully detailed at scale 1/100 every 3 days, and you have to know detail was for scale 1/50 which was used for the construction, thus that makes a multiplication of 4 = 84 A0plans divided by 10 weeks, that is about 1 A0 a day, try to do that by hand, no one would win against me, I'am quite sure about that. The biggest problem, many architects don't know how to use a computer, let alone efficiently draw on one. I've even come accross architects using AutoCAD for 3 years who had never even heard of OSNAPS????? And then we wonder what is the problem, and to know some of those teach new students. The percentage of people using computers efficiently is still small I believe not only in architecture, and this is still a major problem. A survey done in Belgium who has about 10.000 architects showed about 80% had a computer but only 35% had a CAD program, how many of those would use it efficiently???? Christophe Van Oyen Architect – Animator Belgium