In this way, they make one drawing satisfy many different needs. It also expedites the process. Saving time is vital. He cites his work on the Famous Players Colossus project as an example. There were six weeks to design the job and 10 weeks to do the production drawings.
Speed is a benefit but it can cut out the thinking time.
You need to ruminate at times. The challenge is learning to manage it properly. Helmers joined the company a year later with the expectation that he would get the standards set up and bring CAD active. He brought with him wisdom gleaned from a couple of years with the late Ian Petroff whose early, aggressive embracing of CAD was a boost to Canada's architectural community. If you take AutoCAD or any other software out of the box and throw it into the machine and start drafting, eventually you'll have a lot of very messy files.