Watched a guy at the print shop try to fold a D-size sheet like a road map

I was picking up some plots yesterday and this dude next to me had his big set of drawings and just started folding it corner to corner, all haphazard, trying to make it fit in a regular folder. I almost laughed out loud. He was creasing right through the title block and everything. I finally leaned over and showed him the proper accordion fold method, you know, keeping the title block face out and visible. He said he 'didn't know there was a rule for that.' It matters because if you're sending drawings to a site or an architect, they need to be able to find the job info and sheet number without unfolding the whole dang thing. Took me back to my first year when my boss made me refold an entire 30-sheet set because I did it wrong. Anyone have a good method for teaching new hires the sacred art of the drawing fold? I feel like it's a lost skill.

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taylor_moore8d ago

My old boss at the engineering firm was the opposite. He said if a folded drawing gets to the site and the crew can't figure out what it is from the giant title on the back, we have bigger problems. We just did a simple tri-fold to get it in the tube. Saved so much time on big sets.

the_richard8d ago

That tri-fold method sounds like a real time saver, @taylor_moore.