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PSA: I tracked my first 50 drafting revisions and the number blew my mind
I started keeping a log of every single revision request I got on drawings for the last three months. After 50 revisions across 8 different projects, I noticed nearly half of them were because of something I misread on the initial site survey. That is way too many. A specific example was a floor plan for a commercial build in Austin where I drew the wrong column spacing because I skimmed the field notes too fast. It cost me an extra 4 hours of rework. Now I double check every dimension against the survey before I even open AutoCAD. Has anyone else ever run a count on their own revision reasons and found a pattern like this?
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wade_perez2d ago
Buddy of mine from my last job did this same exact thing. He was a structural guy, not MEP. He kept a spreadsheet for six months and found out over 60% of his revisions came from misreading the existing conditions report. One time he drew a whole foundation plan based on a soil report that said "silty clay" but it was actually "silty sand" because he swapped two columns in his notes. The contractor caught it halfway through excavation. Cost the firm like three grand in extra labor and concrete. He ended up laminating a checklist and taping it to his monitor.
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