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clairebaker•1d ago

My lead drafter made me redline 6 sheets by hand last Tuesday and it was the best thing for my speed

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the_avery•1d ago

Hot take: my lead drafter told me to dimension to the framing line instead of the finish face, and I argued with him for two weeks before I tried it

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amyb54•4d ago

That 3D printed dust shroud I tried made my sander worse

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vera_sanchez•5d ago

Rivets vs welds on modern steel detailing, am I the old timer now?

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lindaf78•12d ago

Spent 6 hours tracing a pipe run that should have taken 20 minutes

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avery_stone95•13d ago

The shop owner's tape trick made me abandon my layer system

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parker_patel84•14d ago

Found my old paper logbook and barely recognized the workflow

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richard110•18d ago

That $120 digital level finally got retired after 8 years

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rowan262•22d ago

Switched to CAD clip layers after 8 years of manual lineweights

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holly_brown•25d ago

After 8 years of redrawing sections, I finally get the 3D model first workflow

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perez.mia•25d ago

That senior drafter's advice on layer naming just bit me hard

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emma_smith•26d ago

Found a hidden layer trick that saved my Friday afternoon

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max_jackson56•26d ago

CAD file from a client nearly wrecked our whole job last Tuesday

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drew_thomas9•26d ago

Drafting table wobble drove me nuts for 6 months, then I tried a shim trick from a machinist

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the_drew•27d ago

Saw the same 3D model drawn 5 different ways today

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