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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

guessitecture

so we can't seem to find as built drawings for this one project. so here's what i'm doing....

a while ago, when we did have the as built drawings, the man actually traced over it (with no dimensions called out) to have it scanned (see scantecture) and layed out on cad.

so i am now taking that hand trace of the as built drawing, that was scanned into the computer and using that image file as a background to trace over in autocad.

and to top it off, the man wants me to email him different schemes so he can give accurate square footages and dimensions to the client.

so i'm basically using this image file, that was started by hand, to guess accurate dimensions to give to the client.

as built to hand trace to scan to image background to cad trace to dimension to client= guessitecture.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

help me understand...Why couldn't you simply go measure the building yourself? personally, my conscience won't let me just get it 'close'...it WILL come back to haunt you; usually at about the 75% DD Phase!

1:45 PM

 

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