Shop Drawings, an intermediate solution
Many years ago when I was an intern at Gensler in Houston, one of my jobs was transferring redlines on shop drawings. The lead architect marked up the original and then I made 5 copies by hand.
Some shop drawings came across my desk today and I had a thought. At SALA, I’ve set up pen #20 to always print red (more on that later). What if I dropped a PDF of the shop drawings into a blank layout and then marked up the drawings with pen #20. I’d have a digital original and could easily e-mail the mark ups. I could print as many copies as necessary and all my notes would be legible. I could use search functions within ArchiCAD and start to merge the shop drawings into the BIM workflow. Not the endgame I’m looking for, but an incremental step on the Endless Path of Improvement.
Stephanie M.
My coworker and I discussed this today, based on this post. We think it’s a great idea. We use the “Project Indexes” tool to keep track of the Sheet Index that gets printed on our title sheet. We incorporate all of our consultants’ sheets into this index so we have a layout set up for them.
Another thought: I prefer to print out the sheets for redlines. If I do the redlines by hand and then have an intern pick them up on the computer, it becomes a learning experience for that intern. (This probably only works if you have extra time for your redlines – whatever that is.)
Overall I think this “Redline in ArchiCAD” is a win-win concept. Thanks.
Dave Olufs
And it’s within the project file for future reference. It’s a great solution but sometimes hard to get people to change habits…