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Caught myself dimming lines instead of fixing layer heights in my blueprint set
Was working on a set of residential plans for a builder in Phoenix last month and kept tweaking the line weights to make floor joists read clearer, but the stacking looked off in the sections. Turns out I had misread the floor-to-floor height by 3 inches and no amount of dimming layers was going to fix that gap. Has anyone else spent way too long polishing a drawing only to find the real issue was a measurement error early on?
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david8213d ago
You're making too big a deal about that 3 inch thing honestly. Line weights and graphic clarity matter a ton on their own and I'd argue getting the presentation right is half the battle. If your sections look muddy or the floor joists don't read clean, the framer is going to call you anyway regardless of whether your floor to floor is perfect. I've had jobs where the dimensions were spot on but the drawings were so crowded and heavy that nobody could follow the load path. That's just as bad as a math error. Besides, 3 inches above finished floor is easy enough to fix in the field with a sawzall or a shim, but convincing a builder your drawings look like crap is a lot harder to walk back.
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Honestly, 3 inches in a floor height is a framing disaster, not a quick sawzall fix like you're saying.
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