# Hi Rafael,

Commenting post [89](/?blog/2014-089): Hi Rafael,

Thanks for the input. Yes, I agree 100% with you. Of course until the
moment we have robots to make buildings, we need drawings to communicate
with the building team. And I don't realistically believe we can live
without 2D either. But I also think that the way we do 2D is changing
rapidly. More and more, we draw less 2D from scratch, and more and more
we generate 2D from other kind of data. We will progressively need less
autocad and more 3D or BIM.

This of course won't suppress the 2D completely. If you look at a
building plan, there is actually only about max. 50% geometry, and the
rest is other stuff, mainly annotations, dimensions and symbols. All
these annotations are in fact as important (or more important) than the
linework itself.

But, if you look at it that way, what you need becomes very different:
What you need is not so much to draw a lot of linework, but rather to
adapt/fix/modify a generated linework, and to put annotations,
dimensions and symbols on that linework. This changes considerably the
scope you need from your authoring application.

To resume, of course I also want to be able to produce deep, complex
technical drawings. And if we can do that right inside FreeCAD, better.
But I also don't think the way to go is do that "the old way". Well
I'm not totally sure yet of the best path to follow, but that's where
the fun lies: We can experiment and build our own workflow!