Autocad changed everything.
Everyone wants to be an architect. But the truth is, there is not much demand for them. They aren’t really very useful. A structural engineer or an autocad tech can do the job of an architect in most cases.
Most buildings nowdays are built from pre-approved plans. Hardly anyone hires an architect to build a building anymore.
That’s intersting, I wasn’t aware. But explains why an architect friend I know is struggling.
AutoCAD certainly has changed a LOT of stuff... but I don’t think the demand for architects has ever lived up to the imagined prospects of kids going into architecture programs.
AutoCAD certainly has diminished the demand for draftsmen, tho. I took four years of drafting in high school and what I see in AutoCAD (and similar CAD programs) completely changes the number of people necessary to churn out engineering drawings at a manufacturing company.
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