Talked to an old-school drafter at a coffee shop who said my CAD files look "too clean" and it made me think about why he said that

He told me I'm over-modeling details that will get buried in the sheet set anyway, and now I'm wondering if I'm wasting time on stuff that doesn't matter on the final print - anyone else been told their drawings are too "perfect"?

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fiona_clark11d ago

My buddy Mark who does HVAC plans got the same talk from an old timers guy at his last job. He was spending hours making every duct connector look photorealistic with shadows and stuff. The senior guy pulled up a print from the 80s and said "this is what gets built from, not your renderings." Mark still overmodels sometimes though, he cant help adding little details like bolt patterns on flanges that nobody will ever see. He told me his lead once printed his file and used a red pen to circle every hidden line he modeled that just cluttered the sheet.

tarac1610d ago

Gotta disagree, those bolt patterns save my ass more times than I can count when I'm trying to fit stuff in tight spaces.