"" Guess what happened when vendors went belly up or changed their 800 number...""
According to everyone else, you just changed the one file and you were done, right? ("they" skip the part about noting the revision and making multiple prints of 1027 drawing to be re-issued to several dozen folks)
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"" I would like to start contracting this type of thing up front so we don't have to deal with the darn thing constantly changing throughout the project. ""
Only way to fly. You must be very clear at contract what you're going to deliver, what is "fixed" data, the remedies for changes, etc. Many clients don't understand the cost of some of their petty requirements and when they see it, they usually pass.
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"" I never did understand why some people put all the contact information on the title blocks. ""
Because they can, or some mouth-breathing low-level government employee thinks it's "necessary" now, when it hasn't been for the last couple of centuries.
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"" I am willing to bet that it comes down to everyone
"getting credit"... ""
You may have something there, never thought of that. That might explain why they fight for it so much. hmmm...
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"" I also have never understood the concept of listing "1 of 1032" sheets. Is someone counting them? Maybe I am missing something... couldn't this just be listed on a transmittal or something? ""
I still miss that as well, especially when our typical projects can run 20,000 to 30,000 sheets in 4 or 5 sizes from 2 or 3 dozen suppliers and contractors.
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"" Say you were to send your drawings out to bid. Would you include the contact sheet as part of the drawings and specs?""
We use a truncated contact list at bid that covers only the lead players in our organization.
But hey, that's just me.
Randall Culp
Civil-Structural Design Technician
(aka CADaver)