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leo_lopez•1mo ago

Rant: everyone says use Revit for shop drawings but I went back to AutoCAD at my last job and the fabricator said it was cleaner

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adams.troy•1mo ago

Unpopular opinion: hitting 10,000 hours in CAD made me a worse drafter for about 6 months

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ellis.jennifer•1mo ago

My dimension string broke on a 14 sheet set and I caught it before the shop cut anything

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clairebaker•1mo ago

My lead drafter made me redline 6 sheets by hand last Tuesday and it was the best thing for my speed

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the_avery•1mo ago

Hot take: my lead drafter told me to dimension to the framing line instead of the finish face, and I argued with him for two weeks before I tried it

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amyb54•1mo ago

That 3D printed dust shroud I tried made my sander worse

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vera_sanchez•1mo ago

Rivets vs welds on modern steel detailing, am I the old timer now?

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lindaf78•2mo ago

Spent 6 hours tracing a pipe run that should have taken 20 minutes

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avery_stone95•2mo ago

The shop owner's tape trick made me abandon my layer system

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parker_patel84•2mo ago

Found my old paper logbook and barely recognized the workflow

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richard110•2mo ago

That $120 digital level finally got retired after 8 years

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rowan262•2mo ago

Switched to CAD clip layers after 8 years of manual lineweights

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holly_brown•2mo ago

After 8 years of redrawing sections, I finally get the 3D model first workflow

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perez.mia•2mo ago

That senior drafter's advice on layer naming just bit me hard

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emma_smith•2mo ago

Found a hidden layer trick that saved my Friday afternoon

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