Dropped Everything

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"Acceptance of Substrates"

I might have been wrong

I literally dropped all of the 10 things I was doing at this point to post this. WHY? Why would an architect scan their plans and expect everyone to use fuzzy (probably 150 dpi) plans to measure from? Right in the title of the files is DWG which tells you at the very least they are using some type of CAD (probably Autocad). It is not right and part of me would love to blacklist architects who do this. Literally this type of move is one back to the stone age and meant to induce bidding errors. Today plans should be available in the following order.

1. Revit (Autodesk) or equivalent
2. AutoCad (Autodesk) or equivalent
3. PDF Vector Files WITH layers properly exported
4. PDF Vector Files

Period. No scanning. No bitmaps. No TIFFs. Either catch up or get out but stop expecting subs to deal with purposely diluted plansets.

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