# Hi Ryan,

Commenting post [83](/?blog/2014-083): Hi Ryan,

Yes, no doubt. At the moment, I'm still using draftsight more out of
laziness than anything else. We still work with many people who use 2D
only, and it's an almost 100% dwg-based universe, with all its
long-time (bad) habits, such as hundreds of small objects, bad-formatted
blocks, redundant entities, hundreds of layers, etc. Dealing with those
in FreeCAD is a pain in the ass, because it is not made for that kind of
scenario. Having thousands of objects makes FreeCAD very slow to work
with, and "packing" imported drawings into fewer objects makes them
hard to edit.

Now, when you start new stuff from scratch, then doing it in FreeCAD
already works quite well, up to exporting to dxf/dwg. But honestly
nowadays I'm spending less time on the 2D tools there, my idea now
about a proper architecture workflow is to reduce the 2D work to a
minimum, I'm still looking at how to do that best. Of course I'd also
like to get free from old-style 2D drafting apps like Draftsight, but on
the other hand, I'm not sure how far it is interesting or useful to
spend much time recreating or mimicking these tools in FreeCAD, if it is
something that will become progressively obsoleted. Maybe it is more
intelligent to leave that kind of tasks to such applications, and
concentrate on more advanced stuff. I don't have a clear opinion on
that yet...

One thing is clear to me, though, is that the more you use open-source
tools and try to build your proper workflow out of tools that you adapt
yourself, the more you end up using several different tools, a typical
unix style, several simple tools that all do one taks well rather than
complex all-in-one tools. For example the modeling speed you get with
blender is something that you won't get easily with FreeCAD, and it
would be silly not to use both applications. In that scope, it also
makes sense to leave traditional 2D drafting to apps more suited to that
task. The right place to put efforts, then, would be the interfaces
between all these, that is, make sure data flows accurately between
them.

Do you do 2D drafting in Revit? Is it efficient?