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Why does nobody talk about setting up layer standards before starting a big project
Started a new draft last week for a mid-sized office building and about 3 hours in I realized my layers were all over the place. Walls on one file, details on another, no consistent naming for electrical or plumbing. Ended up spending an extra 2 hours just sorting and renaming everything before I could get back to actual drafting. My buddy who drafts for a civil firm said he does a 15 minute layer setup every single project and it saves him days later. Has anyone else run into this mess and found a good system that sticks?
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kellyj2315d ago
Last civil job I had, my layers were so bad the structural guys laughed at my file name.
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charlie_stone7215d ago
@kellyj23 sounds like you gave them a free laugh, at least you didn't name it "final_final_v2" lol
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finleybutler4d ago
Three foot two inches is the file name? That's not even a file name, that's a bad inside joke. I've seen some rough naming schemes in my time but that one takes the cake. Did you at least get to see their faces when they opened it?
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