[tommix2]

Thank you. We do not do much hand drafting anymore but the sheets we used to draw on were 32" deep so the distance from the eye to the paper at the bottom edge was much less than to the top edge. But even now, using computer assisted design (CAD) you have to continually switch fom looking at the monitor to several large reference drawings.

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My friend found that on the computer it was a problem because of the area of focus not being the full width of the screen.

What you describe with the drawings etc I see all the time in our DO with what we call A0 drawings being over the desk whilst they work on the CAD drawings on the computers. They have 2 screens on their computers so they can either look at 2 different drawings or zoom into the same drawing on one screen but get overview of it on the other screen.