Amateur Sketchin'

If you've never seen this youtube clip before, please take a couple minutes to watch it.
1) It's hilarious, and
2) it's relevant to the story I'm about to tell.

Pay close attention to the Amateur Sketch....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt-F5lMtdjA


So at work, I'm making changes to a drawing that was sent out a couple years ago. We use AutoCAD at my office, but a lot of our plant drawings are so old (dating back to the pre-computer days) that we often use scanned images of hand-drawn plans.

Some of us more advanced CAD users quickly realized that when you try to rescale these scanned images, they get distorted and very pixelated. We know that it's much better to scale our CAD border to fit around the image vs. scaling our image to fit inside the border.

But not everyone is an advanced CAD user. This is what happens to a triangle when you scale your image...

It gets all zig-zaggy and crappy looking.

And....

this is what happens when you're a dumb-ass and trace an amateur sketch version of that triangle....

QUALITY!