Learning load calcs with pencil and paper. Keeping that habit found a flaw in a computer plan yesterday.

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Totally get that, doing things by hand forces you to actually think through each step. Found the same thing checking a duct layout last month, the software had a fitting loss totally wrong. Spent an hour with the manual and a calculator, proved it was off. That stuff is boring but it saves your butt lol. The computer just does what it's told, even if the input is garbage.

the_taylor1mo ago

Disagree slightly, good software can spot human errors we'd miss manually.

emmas191mo ago

Read an old engineering textbook that said to do calculations by hand first. It explained you can't trust software until you know what it's doing. That basic understanding is how you find mistakes.