{"id":331,"date":"2007-04-03T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/04\/03\/the-not-so-picky-cad-drafter\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:54:28","slug":"not-so-picky-cad-drafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/04\/not-so-picky-cad-drafter\/","title":{"rendered":"The &quot;Not So Picky&quot; CAD Drafter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When thinking of what needs fixing in your CAD files keep in mind that most people don&#8217;t care about the small stuff.  They care about the big things.  They do not fix things that are not broken and their definition of broken may mean something different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Broken&#8221; to the CAD Manager means it does not match the CAD Standard.  To the not so picky user, &#8220;broken&#8221; means the file is corrupt and fails to open or does not output to the plotter correctly.  If they can get the file to plot in a way that reflects their desired print, they are happy.<\/p>\n<p>To the not so picky Cad&#8217;er, if they can wrestle the file into a good hard copy then nothing is wrong.  Or the things that are wrong are just small things.  People don&#8217;t fix small things.  They think&#8230;  &#8220;If I don&#8217;t need to fix it to get a good plot, it is not broken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To counteract this line of thinking you should reinforce the need for sharing files with others.  When other drafters start looking at the &#8220;not so picky&#8221; persons work, they start to care a lot more.  They see casual layer naming and random aspects of consistency.  They find that the files are harder to work with.  Productivity declines.<\/p>\n<p>The point is not to wait until everyone agrees the something is broken, it is to practice preventative processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When thinking of what needs fixing in your CAD files keep in mind that most people don&#8217;t care about the small stuff. They care about the big things. They do not fix things that are not broken and their definition of broken may mean something different. &#8220;Broken&#8221; to the CAD Manager means it does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","category-cad-standards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}