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harperschmidt•26d ago

Found out last Tuesday that one wrong line on a drawing costs way more than I thought

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janac51•27d ago

Guy at the supply shop in Tulsa said hand lettering is dead, I told him why my shop still does it

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sandragonzalez•29d ago

A pipefitter at the Mobile job site asked why my ductwork drawings looked like lasagna and honestly he had a point

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luna_craig58•1mo ago

PSA: The guy who trained me said always draw in model space at 1:1, and it took me 4 years to admit he was wrong

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rosed32•1mo ago

Thought 3D scanning in the field was a gimmick until a 1920s warehouse job in Baltimore changed my mind

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logan632•1mo ago

Hot take: I gave up on 3D CAD for a simple bracket job and went back to pencil, no regrets

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the_alice•1mo ago

I finally started checking my scale against a known 12 inch line before every set, after a mess on a Cherry Hill job

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jesse290•1mo ago

Pro tip: check your layer names before you plot, lost 40 minutes to a single hyphen

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angela_carter•1mo ago

Spent 14 hours on a 3 sheet HVAC set Monday because the architect moved one column 6 inches

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black.mark•1mo ago

Used to eyeball my weld gaps at 1/8 inch, now I check with a $6 set of feeler gauges in Denver

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wendygrant•1mo ago

I started drawing my dimension text at 45 degrees after 12 years of flat labels and my checker stopped marking up my sheets

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hill.david•1mo ago

Found a cheap trick to keep my scale drawings from smudging

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charlesanderson•1mo ago

Tilted table saved my wrist on a 40 sheet municipal set in Cleveland

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joel_young•1mo ago

Warning: cheap CAD laptop burned me on a deadline

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elizabetha92•1mo ago

Found a cheap way to clean my old plotter heads

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