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The estimator who said 2D drawings are dead made me dust off my old set
Talked to a guy in Denver last month who does all takeoffs on his tablet now, and he asked why I still print plan sets, which got me wondering if my whole paper workflow is just habit at this point... anyone else stuck in the PDF-to-printer loop?
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reese17716d ago
My grandpa ran crews for 40 years and said the same thing about tape measures replacing string lines back in the day. The paper just works, period. A tablet is great until you gotta hand it to a guy with wet gloves on a rainy Tuesday.
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river18216d ago
Swap that tablet workflow for a real field day when the wifi drops and the battery dies at mile 2 of a job site. I keep a full set of mylar prints in the truck for markups because I can scribble all over them with a red gel pen, no stylus lag, no cloud sync drama. The estimator can preach all he wants, but tell that to the drywall crew who still wants the physical sheet taped to the wall so they don't have to zoom in on a 6-inch screen. Paper might be slow, but it never glitches, never auto-updates, and never asks for a login when the network's down. Keep riding that PDF train if it works, but I'll take my dog-eared stack any day.
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