Ralph Walter wrote:

     "Anybody know whether HABS/HAER still do  hand drawings, or have they
     slipped over to the Dark Side, too?"

     My impression is that they don't do much, if any, hand drawing any
     more.  And a lot of their stuff is developed directly from one of
     those fancy cameras that records every last detail (haven't a clue
     how it does that).  Sound pretty Dark Side to me.  I should qualify
     that by saying that I don't work much with those guys even though
     we're in the same building.

     While that digital stuff is probably more accurate (I did a measured
     drawing in my misspent, long-ago youth and clearly remember fudging it
     because I discovered at the last minute, much too late to go back and
     remeasure, that I didn't have a clue how wide that window frame was),
     it seems awful that such a wonderful skill is being lost.

     Marilyn