Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools.
autokludge@programming.dev 9 months agoI have a lot of repetition in my job (CAD modeller). Even just knowing keyboard shortcuts & setting up shortcuts for frequently used operations can easily net me 5 seconds per operation. I want to spend my energy on solving the task at hand, not on how to use the tool in the moment. I don’t want to move the mouse away from the work area if I can help it.
Maybe not as frequent 5 per day - but scripts for really bottom of the barrel stuff:
- Cycle thru all currently open drawing documents, zoom to full page and force save.
- zoom out ensures drawing can be identified from document thumbnail.
- the software is known to crash, especially editing drawings.
- easy 10mins duplicated work saved.
- Printing all open drawings out to the office printer in order with a delay between them, so i don’t spend the next 20 minutes manually sorting the drawing prints.
- printers don’t always print in incoming order, some documents take longer to process.
- find/replace for text notes
- the software doesn’t have that feature.