I’ve made a tool which allows you to order dimensions faster.
Here it is below:
Order Dimension Command from Tek1 on Vimeo.
For those who want to read my philosophy of the benefits of improving productivity and how I approach detailing – see below. If that bores you, then you may safely skip it with no loss.
An Approach to Detailing: Make things Easier and make them faster
Productivity is what makes the world go round faster. It’s why you can fly from Melbourne to London in less than 24 hours. 500 years ago it might take you a few months – and that too at a break neck speed. Today, anything over 2 days is a painful delay.
Improving Shop Drawing Productivity
It’s the same with shop drawings. We found that our detailers were spending too much time ordering dimensions. That’s something that can be sped up. We want to smash something which had taken over an hour down to 5-10 minutes. And if possible, we want to reduce that time to zero. This allows our detailers to turn around shop drawings quickly to their Precaster – which will in turn massively improve the Precasters turn around time, and working capital situation, and will allow a continual throughput of panels being cast on the factory floor. In other words you will never have a situation where you have 30 guys on the shop floor twiddling their thumbs because their drawings weren’t brought to them quick enough. And if you can get out of a project earlier, that means you can get paid earlier. That in term will allow developers to quickly build and get out of a project ASAP, which would have monumental impacts to their working capital positions and overall profitability. In short, doing things quickly and accurately is worth a lot………………..Time is money.
Small improvements have big impacts.
That’s how I approach detailing.
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