To all CAD experts!!!

[cadmuska]

whats the most difficult drawing/project you have ever did in autocad? and why?

Some tips and reminder before working on...

[Galingula]

Whichever one I've ever done that had the most ammount of people allowed into it to do edits

[StykFacE]

Whichever one I've ever done that had the most ammount of people allowed into it to do edits

AMEN!!!!!!!! :lol:

[slimjramirez]

Whichever one I've ever done that had the most ammount of people allowed into it to do edits

lmao. damn straight. The only major problems i've ever had were not based on technical difficulty, but those that had to be done ASAP. I work, am supposed to work only in the Purchasing department (contracts and paper pushing), however the head project director assumes that i just sit and wait for him to give me work. I told him that i'll gladly help when/if i have a free moment; so the difficulty lies in keeping him aware of the boundaries, not so much a difficult drawing.

[Ako]

There aren't many drawings or projects that can't be done in one way or another. It's always the deadlines that are the problem. We always just sit doing nothing, just waiting for the boss to come in and ask for something don't we? It seems to be the same all over. Ahhhhh!! I feel better after that rant. Now back to normal.

Dave

[fade2blackened]

This one gave me headaches... lol

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[magic_man1]

We have some folks in our office who seem to love using nested xrefs, but fail to know the difficulties it causes. Again, it boils down to other people working on one job.

[gortex]

CHEERS TO THAT. :luck:

[WagglyFawn]

At the place I work now, I'm the only drafter/engineer so I don't have to deal with multiple person projects. Like most have said, the hardest drawings are usually when I have a deadline. However, I've only been here a few months so i constantly find myself fixing mistakes on old drawings that any previous drafters made. There have a been a few drawings that i've completely redone myself.

[Galingula]

At the place I work now, I'm the only drafter/engineer so I don't have to deal with multiple person projects. Like most have said, the hardest drawings are usually when I have a deadline. However, I've only been here a few months so i constantly find myself fixing mistakes on old drawings that any previous drafters made. There have a been a few drawings that i've completely redone myself.

That's one of my pet peeves about Autodesk's business model. How they do business ensures I spend a great deal of time determining how to do things right, only to have to deal with some of that stuff as bad in leter years because of the way new versions change things.

Oh great joy the first time you do an addition in ADT to a building you did with lines arcs and circles in the first place. "Is that tag schedulable?"

[Alan Cullen]

Any drawing from an Architect......they always have a thousand layers, and its a bit difficult to follow their layer naming convention.

As engineers, we try to keep the number of layers we use down to an absolute minimum.

[Lazer]

As engineers, we try to keep the number of layers we use down to an absolute minimum.

I have drawing sent to me with only 1 layer on it and nothing else, gives me big problems as I end up sorting it out in the end. The engineers says no time to do the layer thing! time is money.
You dont want to know my reply to that!!!

[Alan Cullen]

I've had those drawings where everything is on one layer, so I know exactly what you mean about sorting it out.

My response to the Engineers has been "fine, here's your drawing. Do not ask me to do any work on it. If you do want me to do work on it then I am going to waste time sorting it out first."

In our office you wouldn't believe the power we Technicians have over the Engineers.

[gcp310]

Arch plans drawn in meters. Who draws in meters i tell you :?

And unclipped nested x-refs, they can be real fun to filter thru.

G

[cadmuska]

thanks to all... :)

[lucaso]

Hardest is trying to convince everyone there's just not 1 standard, but hundreds. Each draftsman has his own, and so do all progs have their own. Had a drawing with 40 layers, all objects in 1, but they complied to having a layer structure.... Most drawings are not consistent, meaning that an object should have been on a specific layer, but it's not.
Modern problem: colourtable (CTB) drawing converted to STB, but basic info is still in the object-colour. Had to split the layers in order to assign plotstyles to each layer, instead of going over each object to change it's plotstyle. LISP looked good, but with VBA it eventually worked out.
What's wrong with meters? I use units...

[Galingula]

Hardest is trying to convince everyone there's just not 1 standard, but hundreds. Each draftsman has his own...

If you're talking about in a single office, I'd say that's ass backwards and upside down

[lucaso]

It sure is!! Recieve drawings from several architects, my boss wants them to use one protocol. How, they all use different packages and different progs? Should one obligate all architects to use 1 prog and 1 package?
My boss will end up paying the purchasing of the progs AND the tutoring of all draftsmen involved.... Here in this old country there are about 45 orgs claiming to use the "standard" (which they invented themselves). Then I'll mention the fact that there are about 12 different progs used, most of which have special features, such as lineweights (Bentley). One uses colour to set the plotting width (CTB), the other uses STB, and flings the plotting width's on the layers (my favourite). An in the end most don't include their pen-settings.... So, whose ass are we talking about?