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Just realized I was setting my title block wrong for years after a job in Cincinnati
I was working on a big set of shop drawings for a metal fab job in Cincinnati last month. The lead checker, this older guy named Ray, pulled me aside. He pointed at my title block and said, 'Your revision date is in the wrong spot. It's floating.' I argued that it looked fine, but he showed me their company standard. The date needs to be locked to the revision cloud, not just placed near it. If the cloud moves during a change, the date has to move with it automatically. I had been manually moving both for three years. It took me an hour to rebuild my template with the right attributes, but now every update is foolproof. Has anyone else had a simple standard like that completely change their workflow?
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gavin_reed18d ago
Oh man, that hits home. I once spent a whole afternoon manually numbering every page in a 50-page doc because I didn't know about the auto field. My boss came over, clicked two things, and it was done in ten seconds. I felt like I'd been using a spoon to dig a swimming pool. Those little template fixes are total game changers once you finally learn them.
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the_cora25d ago
That "foolproof" part is key. It's amazing how one small fix can stop so many future mistakes.
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