I’ve spent the last couple years doing a lot more modelling work than I expected to do. If you asked me in years before I’d have told you 80-90% percent of my time was dedicated to training and implementation activities.
Much of the modelling I do these days is from the contractor’s point of view, for them. I quite enjoy it. I learn a lot and it keeps me on my toes.
This work is requested often because the documents they are using are not created from models to begin with. Sometimes they are but they have to build based on drawings so they find it informative to attempt to build things in the computer before doing it in the field. Where have I heard that notion before?
Chief among the things that trouble me doing so is the lack of dimensions. If there are lots of dimensions then the issue is their message or rather the lack of clear intent.
All too often I find a slab…