![]() Architects in my area really appreciate a true CAD drawing showing all relevant elevations and details to each frame and door. I have found that although it is nice to have a tool within a costing and take-off software (especially when its intuitive enough to quote stick material and labor) – it will always be short sided. I think our industry specific software developers work really hard to find a way to include this critical part of our process with their platforms. I actually get compliments on my submittals. Then I simply paste it into good ol’ microsoft paint and edit out all of the garbage, then re-snap the picture and paste it into my excel. If the elevation in the plans is messy and has writing on it. Outside of the door and hardware schedules, which are done separately using word or excel, the actual cuts and elevations take me less than an hour to compile. The elevations are done using my excel thing, and the cut sheets are all just pdfs that are doctored to have arrows, etc. The cover sections are all word documents that look really good, so are my notes, etc. I use a very cheapy program called Paperport that “glues” all of my pdfs together into a big booklet for the submittal. Then I go into the plans, open them in Adobe Acrobat, find the elevation or detail that i want, zoom in at about 125%, select the “Take a Snapshot” tool, snap a picture of the elevation and glue it into my excel sheet and print it as a pdf. I’ve probably done close to a thousand submittals in my life, and I have a simple Excel sheet that is nothing but a big rectangle with job information at the bottom. You need to login or register to bookmark/favorite this content. It’s been a really long time since I’ve done submittals, so I told him that I’d ask the experts – YOU! If you’re a distributor, what tools are you using to communicate this information to architects? If you’re an architect, how do you like to receive this information? What’s working (or what’s not)? I’d really appreciate some insight from you on this. Someone asked me last week about software for creating shop drawings and drawing elevations and details. When I visited that distributor years later, my file cabinet of elevation sheets was still in use. ![]() When I started doing shop drawings for hollow metal frames, I had a library of elevations drawn on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, that I would photocopy and add the dimensions to. I spent hours and hours drawing elevations and details of aluminum storefront, first by hand and then using a CAD program. ![]() A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that early in my career I was a detailer.
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