Topic: dimensioning - which do you prefer...

[Keith™]

... field personnel don't have to turn it around like a bus steering wheel to read everything.

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I'm so dizzy my head is spinning :whistle: like a bus steering wheel turning around :whistle: I'm so dizzy!!! :whistle:
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So do people really have a problem reading sideways and upside down text
nevermind .. I just realized that most people have a problem just looking at the plans .. we should be glad that those who do are actually looking at them, and not expect them to be able to read upside down and sideways text ...

[Krushert]

I like the first drawing in so far as it is going to be used in the field.  The duct sizes are all horizontal so the field personnel don't have to turn it around like a bus steering wheel to read everything. 

or hold it over their heads and turn themselves like a bus steering wheel.   

[Keith™]

I like the first drawing in so far as it is going to be used in the field.  The duct sizes are all horizontal so the field personnel don't have to turn it around like a bus steering wheel to read everything. 

or hold it over their heads and turn themselves like a bus steering wheel.   

I'm sure there is a joke in there somewhere involving 1 guy holding the plans and 3 guys rotating the reader

[Krushert]

I like the first drawing in so far as it is going to be used in the field.  The duct sizes are all horizontal so the field personnel don't have to turn it around like a bus steering wheel to read everything. 

or hold it over their heads and turn themselves like a bus steering wheel.   

I'm sure there is a joke in there somewhere involving 1 guy holding the plans and 3 guys rotating the reader

No Joke.  I have seen it done a lots of times in the shipyard.  Since a Navy boat is 25lbs of shaving cream in a 5lb bag and most of it is in the ceiling (or overhead) they install all the big heavy stuff when the unit (section of the ship) is upside and then flip the unit latter. (neat to see 200 tons turning in the air by cranes) There would be guys that would hold the plans upside down and then turn themselves to orientate to the bow.  Sometimes they still screw up the install. 

[Keith™]

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[Krushert]

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^^
Now that is some funny stuff.