[agla]

I noticed your comment about feeling less in touch with a cad plan. I think that as you use it you will find yourself felling the scale and space every bit as much as a paper drawing. I had a really hard time with that when I first started drawing on cad.

The trick to getting over that is to be very consistant in use of plant symbols, line weights, and other commom things that you use in most of your drawings. You will become very familiar with these things and easily recognize scale which is the thing that brings you into your drawing.

Everyone should have standards for their cad drawings for many other reasons as well, but I think this is the most important. You are then building onto your standards every time you draw. It is more of a continuation than a new start each time. I have a library of 141 plant symbols to choose from and consistantly use many of them for the same plant in each drawing. I know exactly what they look like in different line weights because I keep consistant. I can usually tell what plants are in my designs without looking at the plant key as well. ...very handy when going over an involved plan with clients or laying out a job.