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Old drafter at my first job said I was 'over-dimensioning' everything
Way back in 2016 at a shop in Tulsa, this guy named Jerry kept telling me I was adding way too many tolerances to my steel details. I thought he was just being lazy or old school, you know? But after three revisions on a simple beam connection (and the shop foreman getting mad), I realized he was 100% right. I was calling out +/- 1/16 on stuff that just needed +/- 1/8, which made fabrication take twice as long. Has anyone else had a senior drafter call them out on something that felt wrong but actually saved the whole job?
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janahenderson4mo ago
Jerry sounds like a legend. Had a guy named Dave at my first place tell me I was doing way too many redundant callouts on my schematics. Made me mad at first but he saved me from looking like an idiot in front of the whole shop.
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perez.cole4mo ago
Yeah, that Dave guy really did you a solid. I had a buddy who ignored a similar heads-up about his layout once and ended up having to redo 40 hours of work because the senior guy just signed off without checking it. So yeah, eating a little pride upfront beats eating a ton of rework later.
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