Plans & Elevations from rough to finished, interior and exterior.  Plan views show how things are arranged when you're looking straight down on them.  Elevations show how things are arranged when you're looking straight at the sides of them.

Cross-Sections of almost anything to show how things go together, how building elements are layered next to each other even when you can't see them once the building work is done. 

Schematics of what major utilities go where — all to make it clear where lights go and where to put the switches that control them; where the heating and cooling system ducting goes in your home and what controls it; where water pipes and valves must go and where the water will drain, etc.

House plan Details of things necessarily to be built in a certain way to avoid confusion, work delay, misapplication, a faulted warranty, an hysterical consulting engineer, or a bent-up inspector.

Most of this home drawing is in 2D home design, not showing any depth perspective.  That's because, until recently, it has been very difficult – it took a lot of time and money – to draw 3d home design:  so, most home designing and home drawing had to be done by hand.  With the advent of better and better software for better and better computers, both 2D and 3d home design drawing have become much easier. 

Now don't get the old Autocad Granddad wrong.  Home drawing anything much on a computer is not a hi-tech walk in the park.  It's just easier than it used to be — faster, cheaper.  In useful detail and across numerous kinds of home drawing, all you have to do these days to draw on a computer in, say, 3d home design ways is 1) pony up thousands of dollars, and 2) learn the barest basics by intense study and practice for months and months.  Then, you can draw a sand box.  It'll take a while longer to quickly layout a perspective on that half-circle staircase in the Villa Savoye (a notorious tutorial in Autocad 2006) . . . still gives the Autocad Granddad the fits.  Then, after the heaps of money and time, there's the hands-on building experience you've got to have by the boat load so as to disport yourself credibly.  Home designing and home building well puts to work strong backs and strong minds.

Anyway, some folks can draw on a computer and the Autocad Granddad is one of them.  He just keeps it simpler than most.  And he has spent most of his adult life on both sides of the building tracks — needing things home-designed and built; doing the home designing and home building.  Whichever side you're on, tell the old boy what you need.

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