Tracing

I spent 7.75 hours today tracing over plans. I learned soon into the process that: a) I have a shaky hand, b) it's helpful to adjust one's drawing table to avoid a stiff neck, and c) I never want to use a 1" = 300' scale ever again. Yes, that's right. I was tracing the base map of 3M's campus for a proposal, and it was in 1/300 scale. This is murder for shaky hands like mine. Well, at least I got the general picture.

I traced another other plan for the sake of a client, because it was basically a bunch of scribbles of plants masses and code words. We have a code system for labeling plants which is loosely based off of their scientific names. For instance, Amorpha canescens (leadplant) should probably be 'Ac,' but because some other plant probably has that code, it's something like 'Aaf.' Needless to say, they're not the most user friendly. So, I took some time to look up all the codes and their mature spreads so I could redraw them more appropriately in their spaces.