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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey I wrote a whole suite of those when I started at my job. It was a pain just finding the documentation for autolisp...

Tools ended up saving us a couple hours on each project, but then we switched to ArcGIS Pro and I had to rewrite them all lol.

Luckily that's Python, and pretty decently documented online. Now the tooling does about 60% of the drafting work for everyone and the beauty is that we just end up doing more work!

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I was doing some structural detailing work. I've dealt with survey data just for laying out structures (including once in a national park, which... Never again) and that was bad enough! I can't imagine using AutoCAD in a context where GIS would be more appropriate (which I am very broadly familiar with from my degree, that I did after resigning from my designer gig)

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, we were doing large scale FTTH network design and tracking each fiber with a spreadsheet until I wrote some auto routing extensions lol. It saved the company and made everyone about 50x more productive, but pay only went up moderately, $16/hr - $25/hr

This is MUCH easier to do in ArcGIS since we can directly pull in county data for permitting now