Randy, I think you're trying to exasperate me by repeating the same old <excrement>,
As long as you keep missing the point I'll repeat it.
but his is my last round of dead horse beating on this topic.
That's a bet.
To 3D or not to 3D is NOT the question here and it never was. It's totally obtuse that you keep trying to make it seem so;
Therein lies the point you've been missing all along. There is 3D, what I do. Then there is "broken drawings", what you're trying to fix by stepping on. Once stepped upon they are still broken, only flat. Using "Flatten" on what I do is a very bad idea, it ruins a lot of work. Using "Flatten" to fix a broken drawing is an equally bad idea in that all it does is make the bad drawing flat.
The reason I keep talking about 3D as an issue (we have at least two going here) is you keep saying you don't need it, and yet you go on to say you've been drawing elevations for thirty years. Well which is it??
If you tried that "redraw the thing from scratch and bill the client" <excrement> in our business you'd either be without clients in a heartbeat or they'd just tell you to go whistle up a drainpipe because they ain't paying for it.
Somebody is paying for the extra work, if you like repairing their drawings for free, carry on. I don't work for free. Nor do I expose my company to the liability of someone else's bad file. If you don't mind setting yourself up to pay for somebody elses back charges, carry on. I prefer profits.
Are things less than cutting edge in this business? Absolutely. Are we gonna change the M.O. of the whole market segment by force of will and dogged determination? Not bloody likely. Am I losing sleep over it? Nope. When the clients can send us viable 3D, we'll send them 3D back. End of story.
As for the Luddite thing: kiss off. We have real computers and we can work them. If we're not NASA or Bechtel, well so freakin' what? We do what makes sense with what we are given, and the fact that you think what we do is wrong doesn't alter the fact that virtually everybody in this segment is doing the same thing.
That, my friend, is a textbook definition of Luddite. Which, by the way, was the slur you intended for me, as I recall. So if you wish it smooched, be my guest.
Public school design isn't what you do as a specialty, so pardon me if I don't bother with the pointless task of explaining the issues further.
Oh I understand your position quite well. I've seen it dozens of times in dozens of places.
