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Disagreed with the old timer about blueprint scaling at the Denver job site
I was on a commercial remodel in Denver last month and this 30-year veteran kept insisting we scale off the printed dimensions instead of the CAD file. He refused to double check with the digital copy and we ended up cutting two beams 3 inches too short. Has anyone else had luck convincing senior guys to trust the original files over old habits?
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felixhenderson13d ago
Three inches short, huh? Sounds like that veteran's "experience" saved you some serious money on material waste. Maybe next time he'll listen before the sawdust settles.
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colescott13d ago
Double check that CAD file first, PDF scaling gets wonky between printers.
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And on top of what @colescott said, make sure you're exporting your PDF at actual size, not fit to page. I've had drawings come out looking like half-size blueprints because the scaling got reset somewhere between the CAD program and the PDF viewer. Another trick is to print a test page with a known distance, like a 10-inch line, just to verify the scale before you commit to a full print run. It's a pain, but it beats wasting paper and ink on something that's off by a quarter inch.
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