Que Bueno Verte!
Welp, it happened. The other firm sharing the building with us that received a 3-day crash course in Revit before sticking their dick in their first Revit pencil sharpener project have hit their first problem that made them come to me (oh sweet irony).
It was ostensibly a simple problem with the files that they received (which, of course, were done in a previous version, requiring them to download and install the previous version). Whoever had set the drawings up had several linked files that were not coming up due to the links looking for folders on the senders server.
It seemed like a simple enough fix - just update the link locations (same as an XREF - which, in CAD, have the option to set links as 'relative' so that you can send someone files, and as long as the file structure within the folder they dump it into is preserved, the links will work perfectly, not sure if Revit even has this capability).
So we tried it, and after crunching for 15-20 seconds, voila! 'Error - blah blah blah, overlay, blah blah blah' (pretty standard Revit shit). I left him attempting to open the different files and see if he could figure out how to get the links to work (not unlike how a 'Revit Guru' would throw his hands up and tell a Revit dick socket to 'search online' or 'just fuck with it' to see if they could get it to work).
I went back to my desk and did a few quick searches on 'received Revit file links overlays, etc.' and read a few hilarious attempts at people describing the problems they are having, and the even more hilarious attempts at other people (including some at Autodesk) at interpreting the problem, and offering 'solutions' (most of which didn't actually apply).
It was amusing for a few minutes, but got boring quickly, so I decided to jump into a small voice/data and CCTV project that I had received CAD files for. I had the project set up and completed in the time it took Revit-boy to download the Revit models that he will most likely spend the next week staring at and rotating as his brain slowly starts to decay.
In non-Revit news - motherfucking Adobe Acrobat DC. Ah - cloud based entertainment. I was at my wife's office for lunch the other day, and she was attempting to open a .pdf, but at some point in time an update had taken place on her office machine that was preventing her from doing so. The best I could tell was that Chrome had updated an extension (or whatever) because .pdfs on her fucking desktop had all changed to a Chrome-ish icon.
Clicking on them would pop up asking for a username/password, and would not allow her to go any further. She attempted to download a non DC version of Acrobat, but apparently Adobe no longer allows this. I pulled up a chair and tracked down an older version of Acrobat and 'BAM!!!' she could now open .pdfs (which I reiterate - are on her fucking desktop) again.
I'm sure I'm missing some key piece of the puzzle as to why they fuck a program that ostensibly only exists to open .pdfs is no longer capable of opening .pdfs without logging into 'the cloud', but in reality, there is never any fucking reason to log into any kind of cloud based (i.e. internet based) anything in order to access or open shit that is RIGHT THE FUCK THERE ON MY MACHINE.
I don't want an Adobe account, I already have multiple ways to save documents that I can access from anywhere, and just... go fuck yourself already.
Fuck Adobe, fuck Autodesk, and if these people don't get their shit straight, I'm going to stick the entire 'cloud' directly up their ass.
Hasta Luego!
-uckSkullf
Next Time: A Whole New Year Of Derpiness.
Friday, December 14, 2018
Friday, November 30, 2018
The Second Annual Derpy Awards
Happy last day of November!
I woke this morning to a comment on a random post that was written in what I guess was supposed to be in Thai, advertising the 'Gangnam Liposuction Clinic'. After I stopped laughing, I went to hunt it down so I could delete it, but I decided 'fuck it' and left it there, because it is actually pretty funny.
Then I got to work and started looking at a new project that is a renovation of a building that we did previously, but of course the Revit crew just HAD to model it, so now I'm cleaning up yet another garbage set of plans. It actually started off surprisingly well, but as with most things vomited forth from Autodesk's 'flagship' BIM software, it didn't take long to start noticing some minor (and major) fuckups.
The first thing I started noticing was that some (but not all) of the columns had furred out walls around them that DIDN'T LINE UP WITH THE COLUMN LOCATIONS, resulting in a bunch of stupid looking columns punching through walls. The funny part is that I'm looking at the old building plans (that were either done in CAD, or if they were done in Revit, they were done by someone with a little more eye for details like that.
I'm just going to leave that shit looking stupid, since it has little to no effect on me (other than my psyche). It's also amusing that if you overlay this plan over the old one, almost none of the core of the building (which isn't changing) actually lines up. I would tend to trust the older plans more - since, oh, I don't know, they don't look like unadulterated ASS.
Then it was time for another fun game of 'find the overly detailed family' - which turned out to be this cart:
That's 48,629 lines to represent a fucking roll-around cart (nearly 14,000 lines per wheel):
And of course there were two of them (and of course, both were extending into walls), but seriously - who in the fuck ever needs to see that much detail of a goddamned wheel unless you are actually making the wheel?
Once again, I'll take the time to make these plans not suck dick, and laugh, knowing that somewhere, someone issued this garbage as their work product (after spending god only knows how many days or weeks beating it out of Revit.
Anyhow, I'm putting that thing on hold for a while to clean up a .pdf converted into .dwg (since I wasn't able to get some dipshits to come up off of updated drawings for a storage facility that I issued months ago (with the full knowledge that the architect was still fucking with it). Fortunately all they changed was some of the corridors on the first floor (only one device actually changed on my system).
Unfortunately, the plans are clusterfuck, and took a lot of time to clean up - even when starting with a .dwg exported from Revit. The converted .pdf is like crap multiplied by crap - but if I keep my head down for a little bit, I'll have it fixed, reissue the drawings, and hopefully put that one behind me.
And as always, it's nice knowing that I don't have to worry about my software fucking me.
So it's a big fuck you to Revit, another big fuck you to anyone using Revit, and a massive FUCK YOU to Autodesk for foisting Revit on the industry and the world.
Go fuck yourself Autodesk!
Sincerely,
-ckSkullfu
Next Time: Linky Dink
I woke this morning to a comment on a random post that was written in what I guess was supposed to be in Thai, advertising the 'Gangnam Liposuction Clinic'. After I stopped laughing, I went to hunt it down so I could delete it, but I decided 'fuck it' and left it there, because it is actually pretty funny.
Then I got to work and started looking at a new project that is a renovation of a building that we did previously, but of course the Revit crew just HAD to model it, so now I'm cleaning up yet another garbage set of plans. It actually started off surprisingly well, but as with most things vomited forth from Autodesk's 'flagship' BIM software, it didn't take long to start noticing some minor (and major) fuckups.
The first thing I started noticing was that some (but not all) of the columns had furred out walls around them that DIDN'T LINE UP WITH THE COLUMN LOCATIONS, resulting in a bunch of stupid looking columns punching through walls. The funny part is that I'm looking at the old building plans (that were either done in CAD, or if they were done in Revit, they were done by someone with a little more eye for details like that.
I'm just going to leave that shit looking stupid, since it has little to no effect on me (other than my psyche). It's also amusing that if you overlay this plan over the old one, almost none of the core of the building (which isn't changing) actually lines up. I would tend to trust the older plans more - since, oh, I don't know, they don't look like unadulterated ASS.
Then it was time for another fun game of 'find the overly detailed family' - which turned out to be this cart:
That's 48,629 lines to represent a fucking roll-around cart (nearly 14,000 lines per wheel):
And of course there were two of them (and of course, both were extending into walls), but seriously - who in the fuck ever needs to see that much detail of a goddamned wheel unless you are actually making the wheel?
Once again, I'll take the time to make these plans not suck dick, and laugh, knowing that somewhere, someone issued this garbage as their work product (after spending god only knows how many days or weeks beating it out of Revit.
Anyhow, I'm putting that thing on hold for a while to clean up a .pdf converted into .dwg (since I wasn't able to get some dipshits to come up off of updated drawings for a storage facility that I issued months ago (with the full knowledge that the architect was still fucking with it). Fortunately all they changed was some of the corridors on the first floor (only one device actually changed on my system).
Unfortunately, the plans are clusterfuck, and took a lot of time to clean up - even when starting with a .dwg exported from Revit. The converted .pdf is like crap multiplied by crap - but if I keep my head down for a little bit, I'll have it fixed, reissue the drawings, and hopefully put that one behind me.
And as always, it's nice knowing that I don't have to worry about my software fucking me.
So it's a big fuck you to Revit, another big fuck you to anyone using Revit, and a massive FUCK YOU to Autodesk for foisting Revit on the industry and the world.
Go fuck yourself Autodesk!
Sincerely,
-ckSkullfu
Next Time: Linky Dink
Thursday, November 15, 2018
All In Together Now!
Achtung!
So I randomly typed in 'Revit Licks Balls' into Google - and ran across the personal blog of someone who had posted here a few times:
https://revitsucksballs.blogspot.com
He hasn't updated it in a while so my hope is that he managed to find gainful employment outside of the Revitsphere and just left the whole goddamned thing behind him. Its got some great insight into how fucking retarded Revit, Autodesk, and pretty much everyone involved are a bunch of inbred dipshits that don't understand the industry that they ostensibly 'serve'.
Then I ran across this little gem:
http://revit-sucks.blogspot.com
It's only a short couple of quick posts done by someone back in 2011 that pretty much encapsulates the entire Revit experience - slower than fuck, frustrating as hell, and assumes that you already know what the final building is going to look like before you start modeling it (because god only knows what will happen when you start moving stuff around).
They had this cute little cartoon that sums it all up (and has the distinct advantage that the 'Revitworld' frathouse looks almost exactly like my old firm):
Finally I came across this article from 2014 from a guy who managed to complete rid himself of all Autodesk products, and does a fantastic job of explaining exactly what the fuck happened in his industry. It's more focused on 'Softimage' (which Autodesk acquired), 3DS Max/ Maya/etc. but almost every single thing he says about it could probably be applied to Revit:
http://www.stefandidak.com/2014/03/autodesk-the-metastasizing-cancer-of-the-3d-world/
But enough of that, now it's time to make fun of the idiots who just sent me a small hotel - including this fucking showerhead:
That's FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FUCKING LINES just to show a GODDAMNED SHOWER HEAD. And it LOOKS LIKE ASS!!!
Oh - and when you put 48 of them into my drawing - that's 207,360 lines (except that many locations inexplicably had two of them - one over the other), so it probably ended up being in excess of 300K lines.
I deleted every single goddamned one, then went about my normal process of cleaning up the garbage infested bullshit that they seemed to think would pass for 'floor plans'. Tubs that extended into walls, missing countertops, notes/detailing that wipe out parts of walls/fixtures - pretty much the standard nonsense.
Once I get that squared away, I get to figure out what in the fuck the incompetents that laid it out intended (as opposed to what they showed), and it will surprise the fuck out of me if we issue it and they don't come back later having completely changed their design intent (after someone who knew what the fuck they were doing actually looked at it).
Huzzah!!!
Now it's time to say 'Fuck Autodesk' and especially 'Fuck Revit'.
Fuck 'em all.
-uckSkullf
Next Time: ?!?!?!!?
So I randomly typed in 'Revit Licks Balls' into Google - and ran across the personal blog of someone who had posted here a few times:
https://revitsucksballs.blogspot.com
He hasn't updated it in a while so my hope is that he managed to find gainful employment outside of the Revitsphere and just left the whole goddamned thing behind him. Its got some great insight into how fucking retarded Revit, Autodesk, and pretty much everyone involved are a bunch of inbred dipshits that don't understand the industry that they ostensibly 'serve'.
Then I ran across this little gem:
http://revit-sucks.blogspot.com
It's only a short couple of quick posts done by someone back in 2011 that pretty much encapsulates the entire Revit experience - slower than fuck, frustrating as hell, and assumes that you already know what the final building is going to look like before you start modeling it (because god only knows what will happen when you start moving stuff around).
They had this cute little cartoon that sums it all up (and has the distinct advantage that the 'Revitworld' frathouse looks almost exactly like my old firm):
Finally I came across this article from 2014 from a guy who managed to complete rid himself of all Autodesk products, and does a fantastic job of explaining exactly what the fuck happened in his industry. It's more focused on 'Softimage' (which Autodesk acquired), 3DS Max/ Maya/etc. but almost every single thing he says about it could probably be applied to Revit:
http://www.stefandidak.com/2014/03/autodesk-the-metastasizing-cancer-of-the-3d-world/
But enough of that, now it's time to make fun of the idiots who just sent me a small hotel - including this fucking showerhead:
That's FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FUCKING LINES just to show a GODDAMNED SHOWER HEAD. And it LOOKS LIKE ASS!!!
Oh - and when you put 48 of them into my drawing - that's 207,360 lines (except that many locations inexplicably had two of them - one over the other), so it probably ended up being in excess of 300K lines.
I deleted every single goddamned one, then went about my normal process of cleaning up the garbage infested bullshit that they seemed to think would pass for 'floor plans'. Tubs that extended into walls, missing countertops, notes/detailing that wipe out parts of walls/fixtures - pretty much the standard nonsense.
Once I get that squared away, I get to figure out what in the fuck the incompetents that laid it out intended (as opposed to what they showed), and it will surprise the fuck out of me if we issue it and they don't come back later having completely changed their design intent (after someone who knew what the fuck they were doing actually looked at it).
Huzzah!!!
Now it's time to say 'Fuck Autodesk' and especially 'Fuck Revit'.
Fuck 'em all.
-uckSkullf
Next Time: ?!?!?!!?
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Blankety Blank Blank Blank...
Just when I thought Revit was the lowest Autodesk could go - I hear about a 'program' (using that term in the loosest possible context) that has apparently been rattling around in Autodesk's 'portfolio of suites' for the last four years or so called 'ReCap' (apparently short for 'Reality Capture').
It's not surprising that Autodesk could take something with as much potential as 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry and turn it into a cloud-based clusterfuck (that charges 'credits'). A little online searching found more questions about what people were using to replace it with than anything else.
Apparently there was another program called 'ReMake' that was actually functional, and they couldn't have that, so they decided to pop a ReCap in that ass (sorry, I couldn't resist) - and, of course now that everything is 'subscription based', once it's gone - it's fucking gone.
While reading the comments on the Autodesk ReCap forum (which has a terrible format, is slow as fuck, and is just... so fucking packed full of Autodesk staff making false promises and informing users of functionality that is being removed), I got an eerie feeling that I've been here before.
Oh yeah - they are almost identical to Revit forums.
The only difference is that people seem to be a little more united in their derision. Oh - there are 'true believers' here too, but they seem to be more of the 'please sir, could I have some more' variety than a cult of cock-gobblers with chips on their shoulders.
Interestingly, the last new thread was from an Autodesk employee on 9/20 informing users that 'project cleanup and object mesh' feature has been removed, and the previous dozen or so were also from Autodesk employees (some responding to their own posts).
Scrolling further down you start to see people posting their issues, only to have their questions/concerns replied to with more questions or the classic 'known bug , working on that, maybe in the next relase' type of nonsense that Revit users are so used to.
Considering the apparent breakdown of this forum, it wouldn't surprise me if 'ReCap' itself wasn't being 'ReCycled' into another program so that Autodesk can stop supporting it and sell people another license.
What's especially amusing to me about the whole thing is that the people working in the industry that is driving this type of technology are sinking ungodly amounts of money into equipment, software, and time (just so much time ya'll), in order to reproduce things that already exist in reality.
I can see the point to it, but only just barely - because when it takes more time, money, and mental effort to create the final project than if you just used 3D design software to reproduce it, then what the fuck do you think you have actually gained? Oh - and if you don't maintain a license, you can't even access your own shit!
I'm a bit cynical - because over the years I've seen so many attempts at automating processes, only to get worse results, or require someone who knows what the fuck they are doing to go out and undo the mess. It's also frightening, because people who know what the fuck they are doing are getting in dangerously short supply, and people aren't bothering to learn anything from them.
At the risk of sounding like 'the old guy' for just a minute - I'm going to blame it on staring at their goddamned phones and tablets all the time while trying to get out of doing actual work. It's ironic, because all of these devices we carry around are intended to improve our ability to communicate, but in practice, they are making people more isolated and putting them in echo chambers.
I've seen more get accomplished in a 15 minute meeting with paper and pen than in three weeks of jerking off to the latest and greatest technology. I'm no fucking luddite, but you can't tell me I'm wrong. Walk into damn near any engineering office anywhere and peek into conference rooms/offices/cubicles, and you'll see the same fucking thing.
I've seen technology put to good use - but I've also seen it thrown up as a smoke screen of buzzwords and bullshit.
And all I can say is FUCK THAT SHIT.
-ckSkullfu
Next Time: All In Together Now
Monday, October 29, 2018
Revderps
Welcome to the latest edition of 'Revderps' where we look at yet another embarrasing example of a 'coordinated' set of drawings (that were sadly issued for construction)! The winner this week is an architectural/engineering firm whose principals are apparently more concerned about adding letters after their names than with actually looking at their garbage output.
Gaze upon this glorious restroom, that through the magic of modern engineering and design, has a spare toilet wedged into the wall of an adjacent storage closet (in addition to having a pair of toilets in each stall for those times when those girls REALLY NEED TO SHIT!!!)
The boys room was no better - with a combination toilet/urinal stall - I thought this was a mistake at first, but then I realized it was actually a feature for those times when you start taking a piss, think you just need to fart, but then panic and realize that you desperately need to take a shit.
Obviously these little gems were the result of the Architecture team putting their own toilets into their model, then changing the number of stalls (and the size of the bathrooms and adjacent storage rooms) and not bothering to tell anyone. It was such a ignorant fuckup that I actually didn't even notice the receptacles dangling off in space at first.
Until I saw that, I was almost willing to give whoever the fuck did these drawings the benefit of the doubt, since we are obviously seeing what Revit exported into CAD, and it's entirely possible that it didn't actually go out like that - but now there is little doubt in my mind that this exact clusterfuck (and god knows what else) was issued as is.
Funniest of all was the Civil plan - which was still showing the original stall layouts (since they were using an outdated plan that the 'Revit Gods' never deemed to update). Now, Civil generally doesn't give a flying fuck about stalls, numbers of toilets, etc. (but they do care about doors lining up with sidewalks, sewer/gas/water pipes lining up with service entrances, etc.).
Hilariously enough (as the Electrical Design guy who fucking hated Revit, and given the opportunity would simply export the Architectural plan and do my work in ACAD) it often fell to me to be the one to notice that the Architects (and M & P) weren't coordinating jack or shit with Civil - despite them being in the SAME FUCKING BUILDING.
I can't tell you how many times I saw wasted effort and last minute runarounds due to this lack of communication (and fucks given). Unfortunately the people on the Civil team were rather 'civil' (ha) and wouldn't beat an Architect half to death, so it is unlikely that this will ever change. Even if the Civil team requested a weekly plan update (which would be, just like, so hard to export from Revit guys - you don't even know...) it would almost certainly come down to those last minute changes.
If you've never watched what Civil Engineers/Designers have to put up with - trying to cram buildings, parking spaces, sidewalks, services, setbacks, easements, drainage, water detention/retention, etc. etc. onto properties that are TOO FUCKING SMALL, only to have a Revitard come through like a bull in a china shop - it's really amazing that they are able to hold it together.
On a related note, some Skullfuck fans have been commenting regarding the financial status of Autodesk - which has been shedding employees and closing offices for the last couple of years, seems to be having trouble turning a profit, despite the supposed success of its 'subscription' model (which is going, just, so well guys)
I honestly don't see them going anywhere anytime soon, but there is little doubt that they are inflating their numbers, because no company that is doing as well as they claim to be doing has to resort to the kinds of layoffs that they have had to. There's also no doubt that they took the big-ass corporate tax-break and bought back at least some of their own stock (as most other corporations have done).
The only thing that will 'trickle down' is shittier and shittier software.
And that's why we say 'Fuck Autodesk', 'Fuck Revit', and if you don't like it 'FUCK YOU!'
-kSkullfuc
Next Time:Cap'n Crock
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Come On In - The Water Is AAAAAAARGH!!!!!
Just another day here in paradise.
So, for the last few days, any time I've been walking past our break room - which has been converted into a temporary Revit enslavement camp (er... 'training center), I've been bemusedly stopping off for a second to listen to what these poor fucking saps that work for the other firm sharing our building are being told about how they will proceed at slamming their dicks in their desk drawers repeatedly for the foreseeable future.
I was surprised to find that the girl doing the training was an actual Revitard (and not just some poor shmuck reading off a power point presentation), and when I finally had a chance to talk to one of the new batch of Revit dick-sockets this morning, he told me she claims to have been using it since the early 2000's (which would predate Autodesk picking it up in 2002).
It sounded a bit questionable - since she didn't look old enough to have been using 3d design software 18 years ago (and I can't even imagine what a mess it would've been at that point). At any rate, she was able to strap their heads down and get their eyesockets ready for Revit dick insertion - which she did for several days in a row.
The Revit Padawans had this glazed look of 'bleep blorp too much information input bzzzz' I figured the best I could do was give them a list of things to make sure to ask before they were cut loose. Supposedly they will have access to the trainer for a little while after she leaves, so when the 14 billion questions they will have (and the other 14 billion they won't even know how to ask) will be summarily ignored.
I let them know that I would be available at any time to laugh and point at them should they run into any issues on their first Revit project (that almost certainly doesn't have enough of a budget or schedule to be done in Revit).
In the meantime, I ran across this beautiful piece of prose: "A Fuckbonnet For Our Time" written by an individual named David Simon to Twitter co-founder/CEO Jack Dorsey (pictured at the top of that link) who (the best I can tell) had his account blocked over one post (#10 out of #18) where he says 'so die of boils @Jack'.
I believe the point he was trying to make was that this glorified message board (that, in the interest of full disclosure, I don't use - primarily due to it being full of what I lovingly refer to as 'twats') has been, and continues to be used, to amplify the voices of racists, anti-semites, and other festering shit-gibbon denizens of the Interwebs (while generating profits for Dorsey and others).
Having spent considerable time on other message boards, chat rooms, and comment sections - I've seen countless examples of this kind of behavior from everyone ranging from bored kids (who rarely understand what they are saying), trolls (who get their kicks from getting reactions out of people) to full-grown 'adults' who actually espouse the fucked up views they spout online (and/or in real life).
There is often an uneven response to the types of conflicts that arise when the 'true believers' get on a roll - and other well-meaning users attempt to (in Simons' words):"tell the fucker he’s a piece of shit and should die of throat clap" only to find their own comments flagged and accounts blocked/deleted.
Of course, removing even the most disgusting content results in howls of 'censorship' and threats of litigation (while they simultaneously paint themselves 'victims' when people point out exactly what kind of shitty human beings they are). There's no simple solution, and monitoring the sheer amount of content on sites like this can be a daunting task.
I'm honestly surprised that, despite having heard from a handful of Autodesk fuckheads over the years, I've never actually received any kind of cease and desist threat (it's possible they either view my writing as parody or just another stupid/immature person on the internet that they don't want to give the pleasure to).
Speaking of which - fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and fuck anyone buying, using, training people on, or otherwise involved with Revit.
Twice.
-Skullfuck
Next Time: The Derpies!
So, for the last few days, any time I've been walking past our break room - which has been converted into a temporary Revit enslavement camp (er... 'training center), I've been bemusedly stopping off for a second to listen to what these poor fucking saps that work for the other firm sharing our building are being told about how they will proceed at slamming their dicks in their desk drawers repeatedly for the foreseeable future.
I was surprised to find that the girl doing the training was an actual Revitard (and not just some poor shmuck reading off a power point presentation), and when I finally had a chance to talk to one of the new batch of Revit dick-sockets this morning, he told me she claims to have been using it since the early 2000's (which would predate Autodesk picking it up in 2002).
It sounded a bit questionable - since she didn't look old enough to have been using 3d design software 18 years ago (and I can't even imagine what a mess it would've been at that point). At any rate, she was able to strap their heads down and get their eyesockets ready for Revit dick insertion - which she did for several days in a row.
The Revit Padawans had this glazed look of 'bleep blorp too much information input bzzzz' I figured the best I could do was give them a list of things to make sure to ask before they were cut loose. Supposedly they will have access to the trainer for a little while after she leaves, so when the 14 billion questions they will have (and the other 14 billion they won't even know how to ask) will be summarily ignored.
I let them know that I would be available at any time to laugh and point at them should they run into any issues on their first Revit project (that almost certainly doesn't have enough of a budget or schedule to be done in Revit).
In the meantime, I ran across this beautiful piece of prose: "A Fuckbonnet For Our Time" written by an individual named David Simon to Twitter co-founder/CEO Jack Dorsey (pictured at the top of that link) who (the best I can tell) had his account blocked over one post (#10 out of #18) where he says 'so die of boils @Jack'.
I believe the point he was trying to make was that this glorified message board (that, in the interest of full disclosure, I don't use - primarily due to it being full of what I lovingly refer to as 'twats') has been, and continues to be used, to amplify the voices of racists, anti-semites, and other festering shit-gibbon denizens of the Interwebs (while generating profits for Dorsey and others).
Having spent considerable time on other message boards, chat rooms, and comment sections - I've seen countless examples of this kind of behavior from everyone ranging from bored kids (who rarely understand what they are saying), trolls (who get their kicks from getting reactions out of people) to full-grown 'adults' who actually espouse the fucked up views they spout online (and/or in real life).
There is often an uneven response to the types of conflicts that arise when the 'true believers' get on a roll - and other well-meaning users attempt to (in Simons' words):"tell the fucker he’s a piece of shit and should die of throat clap" only to find their own comments flagged and accounts blocked/deleted.
Of course, removing even the most disgusting content results in howls of 'censorship' and threats of litigation (while they simultaneously paint themselves 'victims' when people point out exactly what kind of shitty human beings they are). There's no simple solution, and monitoring the sheer amount of content on sites like this can be a daunting task.
I'm honestly surprised that, despite having heard from a handful of Autodesk fuckheads over the years, I've never actually received any kind of cease and desist threat (it's possible they either view my writing as parody or just another stupid/immature person on the internet that they don't want to give the pleasure to).
Speaking of which - fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and fuck anyone buying, using, training people on, or otherwise involved with Revit.
Twice.
-Skullfuck
Next Time: The Derpies!
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Grab Some Motherfucking Popcorn
Oh Glory Be...
There is an engineering firm that shares the same office building as my company, and one of their engineers dropped by today to ask if anyone from our office would like to sit in on a Revit training seminar they are having tomorrow.
When I got done laughing, I found out that apparently they are taking on their very first Revit job ever, and HOLY JESUS are they about to get buttfucked into another dimension.
I talked with the engineer for a few minutes (I admitted that I'm not the most objective person when it comes to Revit), and it was pretty apparent that neither he, nor anyone who works for him, have any idea how royally screwed they are.
He said that he had been told to 'forget everything you know about cad', which is the understatement of the year. 'Forget everything you know - period' would be more accurate - and 'Just fucking forget it' would be spot on.
I mentioned the large files that he would be dealing with - and he told me that it's all 'cloud based' (at which point I started laughing so hard I had to use a wall to keep from falling down (accidentally switching off some lights).
I told him I hoped he had plans to upgrade his computers (which I know for a fact haven't been upgraded in quite some time - and are nowhere near capable of handling Revit). I didn't mention the decrepit state of his network server - or the fact that his Internet connection is about to get reamed out.
I let him know about how Autodesk bought Revit from 'Charles River Software' rather than develop it from scratch (or simply give ACAD BIM abilities without breaking it's basic functionality), and how they did an end run around our collective industries to get it included as a deliverable by clients.
I just hope he's getting a REALLY good fee - because he's going to be shelling out for Revit licenses, new computers and other equipment, and then trying to figure out how to get his staff up to speed. I offered to come by and make fun of them as they take their first baby steps on broken glass.
The only advantage I can give them is to really push for what the final deliverables need to include. This is often left completely undefined - even by long-time Revit using firms. This is primarily due to so few non-Revit people knowing (or caring) what the hell 'Doing It In Revit' really entails.
The fact is 'Doing It In Revit' could mean anything from 'Fully 3-D modeled self-calculating systems that are coordinated and integrated with all other disciplines' to 'Poorly slapping in a few families and finishing it up with 2D linework' (or anywhere in-between).
In my experience, almost nobody had the time to worry about what other people were doing with it because they were rushing to squeeze something even remotely passable out before (i.e. way after) the due date.
We were lucky that most of our clients did not request our Revit models, or ever actually look at them past maybe a little 'ooh' and 'ahh' walkthrough - a lot of which was faked (and had little to nothing to do with the actual building plans).
My fear (and what this engineer's fear needs to be) was always someone getting hold of the process, defining exact expectations, and then holding everyone involved's feet to the fire until they had met these expectations.
We've got at least one government client that we do work for that is psychotic when it comes to details - I mentioned them a while back when talking about how one of our equipment providers didn't have complete (or accurate) dimensions on some of their enclosures.
99.9% of the time, and probably the reason nobody ever noticed (or cared) about the oversights, these enclosures would simply show up on a job site and be installed. The only dimension anyone cared about was the distance between the first two holes you had to drill to hand the enclosure on the wall - then everything else was gravy.
These people came back several times on the project where I took accurate measurements and provided a complete diagram of the enclosures, and kept asking for more and more detail on the diagrams showing the equipment in the panels.
Just yesterday I was going through and adding in factory provided (and in some cases installed) ribbon cables, molded plugs, etc. that they would NEVER have any reason to think about after the equipment was installed (that also junked up the diagrams).
I can't imagine if this client got ahold of Revit (if they haven't already) and started requiring different disciplines to provide their Revit models so they could be thoroughly scrubbed for any 'BIM Washing' or other (perceived) deficiencies.
Ironically, both the firm getting ready to accept the Revit dick into their eye sockets - and the psychotic client I'm describing are the same ones that required me to step in at the end of one of their massive projects and declusterfuck it - well, this time they won't have that luxury, because there's no way I'm fucking with their broke-ass Revit shit.
If they want to export it to CAD, I might consider taking a look - but when (not if) they get that far behind the eight-ball, it's going to be mega-crunch time, and I will absolutely school them on just how fucked they allowed their project to get.
The only saving grace is that my firm still has no plans to waste time with Revit - and as I've said before, the day they make the mistake of trying to convert is the day I update my Resume and GTFO. I'm already considering a change in career (ironically one that involves 3D - but is as far removed from Revit as the East is from the West).
Anyway - Fuck Revit, yadda yadda yadda - and these poor fucks don't know what they are in for (maybe one will run across my blog when they get really frustrated and start typing combinations of 'Revit' and various curse words into Google... lol)
Sincerely,
The Laughing SkullFuck.
Next Time:Drowning In Stupidity
There is an engineering firm that shares the same office building as my company, and one of their engineers dropped by today to ask if anyone from our office would like to sit in on a Revit training seminar they are having tomorrow.
When I got done laughing, I found out that apparently they are taking on their very first Revit job ever, and HOLY JESUS are they about to get buttfucked into another dimension.
I talked with the engineer for a few minutes (I admitted that I'm not the most objective person when it comes to Revit), and it was pretty apparent that neither he, nor anyone who works for him, have any idea how royally screwed they are.
He said that he had been told to 'forget everything you know about cad', which is the understatement of the year. 'Forget everything you know - period' would be more accurate - and 'Just fucking forget it' would be spot on.
I mentioned the large files that he would be dealing with - and he told me that it's all 'cloud based' (at which point I started laughing so hard I had to use a wall to keep from falling down (accidentally switching off some lights).
I told him I hoped he had plans to upgrade his computers (which I know for a fact haven't been upgraded in quite some time - and are nowhere near capable of handling Revit). I didn't mention the decrepit state of his network server - or the fact that his Internet connection is about to get reamed out.
I let him know about how Autodesk bought Revit from 'Charles River Software' rather than develop it from scratch (or simply give ACAD BIM abilities without breaking it's basic functionality), and how they did an end run around our collective industries to get it included as a deliverable by clients.
I just hope he's getting a REALLY good fee - because he's going to be shelling out for Revit licenses, new computers and other equipment, and then trying to figure out how to get his staff up to speed. I offered to come by and make fun of them as they take their first baby steps on broken glass.
The only advantage I can give them is to really push for what the final deliverables need to include. This is often left completely undefined - even by long-time Revit using firms. This is primarily due to so few non-Revit people knowing (or caring) what the hell 'Doing It In Revit' really entails.
The fact is 'Doing It In Revit' could mean anything from 'Fully 3-D modeled self-calculating systems that are coordinated and integrated with all other disciplines' to 'Poorly slapping in a few families and finishing it up with 2D linework' (or anywhere in-between).
In my experience, almost nobody had the time to worry about what other people were doing with it because they were rushing to squeeze something even remotely passable out before (i.e. way after) the due date.
We were lucky that most of our clients did not request our Revit models, or ever actually look at them past maybe a little 'ooh' and 'ahh' walkthrough - a lot of which was faked (and had little to nothing to do with the actual building plans).
My fear (and what this engineer's fear needs to be) was always someone getting hold of the process, defining exact expectations, and then holding everyone involved's feet to the fire until they had met these expectations.
We've got at least one government client that we do work for that is psychotic when it comes to details - I mentioned them a while back when talking about how one of our equipment providers didn't have complete (or accurate) dimensions on some of their enclosures.
99.9% of the time, and probably the reason nobody ever noticed (or cared) about the oversights, these enclosures would simply show up on a job site and be installed. The only dimension anyone cared about was the distance between the first two holes you had to drill to hand the enclosure on the wall - then everything else was gravy.
These people came back several times on the project where I took accurate measurements and provided a complete diagram of the enclosures, and kept asking for more and more detail on the diagrams showing the equipment in the panels.
Just yesterday I was going through and adding in factory provided (and in some cases installed) ribbon cables, molded plugs, etc. that they would NEVER have any reason to think about after the equipment was installed (that also junked up the diagrams).
I can't imagine if this client got ahold of Revit (if they haven't already) and started requiring different disciplines to provide their Revit models so they could be thoroughly scrubbed for any 'BIM Washing' or other (perceived) deficiencies.
Ironically, both the firm getting ready to accept the Revit dick into their eye sockets - and the psychotic client I'm describing are the same ones that required me to step in at the end of one of their massive projects and declusterfuck it - well, this time they won't have that luxury, because there's no way I'm fucking with their broke-ass Revit shit.
If they want to export it to CAD, I might consider taking a look - but when (not if) they get that far behind the eight-ball, it's going to be mega-crunch time, and I will absolutely school them on just how fucked they allowed their project to get.
The only saving grace is that my firm still has no plans to waste time with Revit - and as I've said before, the day they make the mistake of trying to convert is the day I update my Resume and GTFO. I'm already considering a change in career (ironically one that involves 3D - but is as far removed from Revit as the East is from the West).
Anyway - Fuck Revit, yadda yadda yadda - and these poor fucks don't know what they are in for (maybe one will run across my blog when they get really frustrated and start typing combinations of 'Revit' and various curse words into Google... lol)
Sincerely,
The Laughing SkullFuck.
Next Time:Drowning In Stupidity
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Bitch-Azz
Hi!
So I'm assembling the second 250K s.f. data center project (located directly next to the first one), and the first part was as simple as slapping the new floor plan in, bumping a few things around, and doing a 'find and replace' with the building designations.
The second part was basically the same, but since this building is tying into the head-end of the first building there will be a few pieces of equipment that appeared in the first set that will no longer be necessary in the second set.
In theory it's just a few 'minor' changes to the floor plan where that equipment is shown on building 1 - but of course, the main panel location is changing, which will require delicate care, and a bit of recalculation.
While comparing the old and new plans I noticed that below the area that is being modified there are several rooms with ceiling mounted devices missing on the new set. My best guess is that some Architectural genius adjusted the height of the ceiling in that room causing the devices to disappear from the view.
It's the same dipshits that deleted 9K s.f. of the plan from their drawings rather than adjust a match-line to the right place though, so it's entirely possible they accidentally deleted them when they were updating their plans to the new floor plan (hell, it's entirely possible that they had to recreate the entire set of plans in the second building model - and simply left those devices off).
Hell, any number of things are 'possible' and 'probable' when it comes to working with idiots - not to mention the exponential levels of incompetence that a program like Revit allows to creep into a project. I'm going to be keeping my eyes open for any other fuckups - if for no other reason than to make fun of their stupidity.
I mean fuck, I make mistakes all the time - I get going too fast, overlook something, get pulled off a project and forget where I left off, move something instead of copying it, click 'undo' one too many times without realizing it, etc., but 1) I only fuck up my own drawings, and 2) I generally catch those fuckups later (and they are rarely major items - many of them could easily be inferred by the people using my drawings to install from - aside from the fact that they are almost purely diagrammatical - and the installers often deviate from them anyway).
What I don't do is keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over - or force anyone else into lockstep with me. I'm constantly reviewing and revising as I go, organizing, and cleaning to make sure things are legible, logical, and ACCURATE.
As in 'it's accurate to say that Revit, Autodesk, Revitards, and anyone else involved are a bunch of fuckwits who can go fuck themselves'.
-SK*LLF*CK
Next Time:Another One Lines Up To Get Fucked
So I'm assembling the second 250K s.f. data center project (located directly next to the first one), and the first part was as simple as slapping the new floor plan in, bumping a few things around, and doing a 'find and replace' with the building designations.
The second part was basically the same, but since this building is tying into the head-end of the first building there will be a few pieces of equipment that appeared in the first set that will no longer be necessary in the second set.
In theory it's just a few 'minor' changes to the floor plan where that equipment is shown on building 1 - but of course, the main panel location is changing, which will require delicate care, and a bit of recalculation.
While comparing the old and new plans I noticed that below the area that is being modified there are several rooms with ceiling mounted devices missing on the new set. My best guess is that some Architectural genius adjusted the height of the ceiling in that room causing the devices to disappear from the view.
It's the same dipshits that deleted 9K s.f. of the plan from their drawings rather than adjust a match-line to the right place though, so it's entirely possible they accidentally deleted them when they were updating their plans to the new floor plan (hell, it's entirely possible that they had to recreate the entire set of plans in the second building model - and simply left those devices off).
Hell, any number of things are 'possible' and 'probable' when it comes to working with idiots - not to mention the exponential levels of incompetence that a program like Revit allows to creep into a project. I'm going to be keeping my eyes open for any other fuckups - if for no other reason than to make fun of their stupidity.
I mean fuck, I make mistakes all the time - I get going too fast, overlook something, get pulled off a project and forget where I left off, move something instead of copying it, click 'undo' one too many times without realizing it, etc., but 1) I only fuck up my own drawings, and 2) I generally catch those fuckups later (and they are rarely major items - many of them could easily be inferred by the people using my drawings to install from - aside from the fact that they are almost purely diagrammatical - and the installers often deviate from them anyway).
What I don't do is keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over - or force anyone else into lockstep with me. I'm constantly reviewing and revising as I go, organizing, and cleaning to make sure things are legible, logical, and ACCURATE.
As in 'it's accurate to say that Revit, Autodesk, Revitards, and anyone else involved are a bunch of fuckwits who can go fuck themselves'.
-SK*LLF*CK
Next Time:Another One Lines Up To Get Fucked
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
And Another One Gone
Hallo!
I decided to do a quick post commemorating one of the 'Revit Gurus' from my old firm apparently losing his job (I'm going to try to get some context - all I know is that his wife posted that he got the boot).
On the upside, with his extensive Revit experience, he can probably land a lucrative position just about anywhere - although the fact that he was a self-important dickhead (which may or may not have factored into him being sacked) might make it harder to secure a new job.
With any luck he ends up at a firm that is on their last nerve struggling under the weight of the Revit dick, and he tries to pull the same bullshit he did at my prior firm - only to find someone who makes me look sane by comparison, and who doesn't appreciate some prick showing up and fucking up the status quo.
I'll touch base when I know more - but in the meantime, fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and fuck Revit 'Gurus' and their kool-aid guzzling fuckery.
-SF
Next Time: Bitch-Azz
I decided to do a quick post commemorating one of the 'Revit Gurus' from my old firm apparently losing his job (I'm going to try to get some context - all I know is that his wife posted that he got the boot).
On the upside, with his extensive Revit experience, he can probably land a lucrative position just about anywhere - although the fact that he was a self-important dickhead (which may or may not have factored into him being sacked) might make it harder to secure a new job.
With any luck he ends up at a firm that is on their last nerve struggling under the weight of the Revit dick, and he tries to pull the same bullshit he did at my prior firm - only to find someone who makes me look sane by comparison, and who doesn't appreciate some prick showing up and fucking up the status quo.
I'll touch base when I know more - but in the meantime, fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and fuck Revit 'Gurus' and their kool-aid guzzling fuckery.
-SF
Next Time: Bitch-Azz
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
A Matchline Made In Hell
Gobbledygook,
So the massive server farm project came back approved with zero comments on my side, and approved with some minuscule changes on the other guy's side (so minuscule that I went ahead and made them). Amazeballs...
We are set to roll with the second (virtually identical) project (basically $50K to cut and paste - and since it ties into the first building we will actually remove some equipment).
Then, this morning, some questions came up over whether or not some of the piping was necessary due to a drop ceiling in an area that is being covered by adjacent pipes (not sure who initiated the questions, but I've had to waste time this morning getting everyone on the same page (literally - showing them discrepancies between the Architectural, Electrical, and Fire Alarm drawings).
That's when I noticed the funniest fucking shit. The 'engineer' (using that term in the loosest possible context) had already issued some really sad looking drawings the first go around that had a number of fuckups that I catalogued in my post 'Nobody Gives A Fuck About Anything Anymore'
One of the most glaring (yet - ironically, least consequential) ones was that their matchline was in the wrong damn place. We had sent a marked up set showing their fuckups before a meeting, at which point the engineer looked at them and said 'yeah, this looks like the stuff I told them to fix for the next building'.
Apparently somebody told them 'yeah - about that', and soon after - they released a revised set. I briefly glanced at it, and saw that, yes, they had fixed the majority of the fuckups that we had pointed out. I didn't bother to go too deep though, because I already knew my design was superior, and I was done looking at their crap - until today.
Whoever their BIMtard was took a look at the misplaced matchline (that was halfway down the second page, rather than at the top of the page) and decided 'oh - the matchline is in the right place, so I'm just showing duplicate info on the first and second pages' and deleted everything above the matchline on the second page (clouded it and everything).
Now, if you print out the first and second pages, fold them over to the matchlines, and butt them up against each other to see the whole building - voila! A whole section of the building is FUCKING MISSING. Rather than just moving the matchline to the right place, they FUCKED IT UP WORSE THAN IT ALREADY WAS!!!
I really wish I had noticed it back when they first issued it, but I was getting pretty exasperated with them at that point, and I would've probably jumped in my car to take a road trip to punch someone in the face if I had seen it then. Now I can just laugh (and hope to god that whatever the fuck is going on right now doesn't waste any more of my time.
As far as we could tell, there is unnecessary pipe in one area (ironically there isn't enough in another - but nobody seems to give a fuck about that - yet). This led to additional equipment due to the lengths of the pipe - which I'm sure someone, somewhere gives a fuck about, but I haven't heard one way or the other.
The result, if this pipe is indeed excess to needs, is that we would no longer need the extra equipment (even if the area that is deficient gets corrected), but if we leave it, and someone finally gets around to giving a fuck, it's going to look completely retarded to have all that extra equipment (four devices that can handle four pipes each only handling one pipe each).
To add an additional layer of irony, the company that manufactures the equipment did a layout way back in 2017 that did not show the excess pipe, but DID show pipe in the deficient area - and for some reason we're chasing the tail of a firm that is currently missing a nearly 9,000 s.f. section from their drawings.
Oh - and I'm supposed to be working on a seven story hotel refit that one of the people involved in the aforementioned project laid out based on existing conditions as a one-for-one replacement, but then the salesman came back and said it needs to meet code (which it currently does not - kind of the opposite of the dumbfuckery on the school refit I recently did).
The guy who did the layout actually drew the entire hotel floor plan in a program called 'Visio' that he seems to love - but that has some pretty serious limitations. It took a while to clean up in CAD, and while rough, as far as 2D layouts are concerned it was easily on par with the garbage being turned out by Revitards (better even).
Anyway... fuck stupid people, fuck incompetent people, fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and fuck anyone else who gets in my way.
-SF
Next Time: Another One Bites The Dick
So the massive server farm project came back approved with zero comments on my side, and approved with some minuscule changes on the other guy's side (so minuscule that I went ahead and made them). Amazeballs...
We are set to roll with the second (virtually identical) project (basically $50K to cut and paste - and since it ties into the first building we will actually remove some equipment).
Then, this morning, some questions came up over whether or not some of the piping was necessary due to a drop ceiling in an area that is being covered by adjacent pipes (not sure who initiated the questions, but I've had to waste time this morning getting everyone on the same page (literally - showing them discrepancies between the Architectural, Electrical, and Fire Alarm drawings).
That's when I noticed the funniest fucking shit. The 'engineer' (using that term in the loosest possible context) had already issued some really sad looking drawings the first go around that had a number of fuckups that I catalogued in my post 'Nobody Gives A Fuck About Anything Anymore'
One of the most glaring (yet - ironically, least consequential) ones was that their matchline was in the wrong damn place. We had sent a marked up set showing their fuckups before a meeting, at which point the engineer looked at them and said 'yeah, this looks like the stuff I told them to fix for the next building'.
Apparently somebody told them 'yeah - about that', and soon after - they released a revised set. I briefly glanced at it, and saw that, yes, they had fixed the majority of the fuckups that we had pointed out. I didn't bother to go too deep though, because I already knew my design was superior, and I was done looking at their crap - until today.
Whoever their BIMtard was took a look at the misplaced matchline (that was halfway down the second page, rather than at the top of the page) and decided 'oh - the matchline is in the right place, so I'm just showing duplicate info on the first and second pages' and deleted everything above the matchline on the second page (clouded it and everything).
Now, if you print out the first and second pages, fold them over to the matchlines, and butt them up against each other to see the whole building - voila! A whole section of the building is FUCKING MISSING. Rather than just moving the matchline to the right place, they FUCKED IT UP WORSE THAN IT ALREADY WAS!!!
I really wish I had noticed it back when they first issued it, but I was getting pretty exasperated with them at that point, and I would've probably jumped in my car to take a road trip to punch someone in the face if I had seen it then. Now I can just laugh (and hope to god that whatever the fuck is going on right now doesn't waste any more of my time.
As far as we could tell, there is unnecessary pipe in one area (ironically there isn't enough in another - but nobody seems to give a fuck about that - yet). This led to additional equipment due to the lengths of the pipe - which I'm sure someone, somewhere gives a fuck about, but I haven't heard one way or the other.
The result, if this pipe is indeed excess to needs, is that we would no longer need the extra equipment (even if the area that is deficient gets corrected), but if we leave it, and someone finally gets around to giving a fuck, it's going to look completely retarded to have all that extra equipment (four devices that can handle four pipes each only handling one pipe each).
To add an additional layer of irony, the company that manufactures the equipment did a layout way back in 2017 that did not show the excess pipe, but DID show pipe in the deficient area - and for some reason we're chasing the tail of a firm that is currently missing a nearly 9,000 s.f. section from their drawings.
Oh - and I'm supposed to be working on a seven story hotel refit that one of the people involved in the aforementioned project laid out based on existing conditions as a one-for-one replacement, but then the salesman came back and said it needs to meet code (which it currently does not - kind of the opposite of the dumbfuckery on the school refit I recently did).
The guy who did the layout actually drew the entire hotel floor plan in a program called 'Visio' that he seems to love - but that has some pretty serious limitations. It took a while to clean up in CAD, and while rough, as far as 2D layouts are concerned it was easily on par with the garbage being turned out by Revitards (better even).
Anyway... fuck stupid people, fuck incompetent people, fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and fuck anyone else who gets in my way.
-SF
Next Time: Another One Bites The Dick
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Screwed Holes
Mornin' Guv'nor!
It's 3 posts in one day!!! (Half of the first one was already written - but hey).
I'm still waiting for a response from the RFI I sent out yesterday (I don't even think they sent it along until today), but there was another aspect to this system layout that I forgot to mention - and that is how it is actually going to be installed.
It mostly consists of pipe routed below the roof deck, but there places where it runs perpendicular to the beams, so it either has to run across the bottom of the beams (which requires compensation), or it has to go across the roof deck and have four elbows at each beam to go down and back up.
As it turns out, it's going to be a combination of these two - but fortunately in the large server room (and I do mean large - over 71,000 s.f.) [Edit: There is another 71,000+ square feet of server space on the second floor - the building itself is over 280,000 s.f.] the pipes will run parallel to the large beams (and despite the .pdf of the 3D Revit Structural model that I received showing solid beams and roof joists - the joists are supposedly open - so our pipe can pass through them).
There will still be some places where the pipes have to route across the bottom of the beams to get to the places where they turn and run parallel (where I can simply turn it up and get up to the roof deck - but comically, the client doesn't want anything attached to the roof deck, so the installer is going to get to have a field day figuring out how to support the pipe (every 5' - despite it being filled with nothing but air).
Fortunately that's not my problem - but someone pointed out that some other equipment we need to put up at the roof was going to require a solution. Fortunately the electrician is going to be installing 4" square boxes at each location a device will be installed, so we decided to sketch up a modified cover plate that would allow the device to bolted to the cover with another hole for a wiring gland.
Another guy actually sketched the detail, but a brief glance at the data sheet set my OCD on edge. I'm not so bad as to need to flip lights on/off a certain number of times to leave a room - but I have spent a lot of time honing my pattern matching and spatial dimension skills, so I often spot stuff that other people completely miss.
The sheet showed three 9/32" holes - the first two were 2" apart on the left side with a third on the right 1-3/4" from the midpoint of the first two - but the diagram was fucking WRONG. The dimensions were very close - but whoever drew the diagram had made the hole on the left 2" away as well, resulting in a skewed picture. Ironically, directly to the right of this diagram was a note indicating 3 holes 120 degrees apart on a 2.312 bolt circle.
Purely for my own amusement, I decided to sketch the holes in CAD. First with the 2" and 1-3/4" dimensions - then with a 2.312 circle and a polar array of circles 120 degrees apart (it was about this time that the guy who drew the detail told me I was getting obsessed with it). At first glance they looked identical, but when I overlayed them, there was a discrepancy of 1/32".
It's not enough to worry about (in fact, the default dimension resolution in CAD doesn't even register the difference - even though you can clearly see two holes sitting next to each other) and despite the actual dimension being 1.71875" rather than 1.75", it will probably bolt right up. Comically, we received a CAD file showing side/top/front and a '3d' view - none of which showed the actual mounting holes (you could only make out two on the '3d' view).
I'm not a mathematician, but I do hold a fascination with the ability of mathematics to define things down to a ridiculous level of accuracy. In this particular case, I know 1/32" doesn't matter - but there are situations where it absolutely fucking does. I've seen machine tools capable of accuracy up to 1/1000" (and now with the ability to work at the nano level - even more accurate than that).
It's not necessary for every day use - but as long as we are here, let's at least get it as close as possible.
Obsessively Yours,
-.000000000001 SkullFucks
Next Time: Can You Get Any Stupider?
P.S. - Because my brain literally never stops thinking about this stuff, I had a slight epiphany this morning while putting my shoes on that while lining up either the two holes or the one hole does result in a 1/32" discrepancy on the other side, splitting the difference might only result in 1/64" offset at each hole. I tested this theory by redrawing it, only to find that in reality, none of the holes actually line up - but the discrepancy is so small as to be negligible. My point still stands though - I'm fundamentally insane.
It's 3 posts in one day!!! (Half of the first one was already written - but hey).
I'm still waiting for a response from the RFI I sent out yesterday (I don't even think they sent it along until today), but there was another aspect to this system layout that I forgot to mention - and that is how it is actually going to be installed.
It mostly consists of pipe routed below the roof deck, but there places where it runs perpendicular to the beams, so it either has to run across the bottom of the beams (which requires compensation), or it has to go across the roof deck and have four elbows at each beam to go down and back up.
As it turns out, it's going to be a combination of these two - but fortunately in the large server room (and I do mean large - over 71,000 s.f.) [Edit: There is another 71,000+ square feet of server space on the second floor - the building itself is over 280,000 s.f.] the pipes will run parallel to the large beams (and despite the .pdf of the 3D Revit Structural model that I received showing solid beams and roof joists - the joists are supposedly open - so our pipe can pass through them).
There will still be some places where the pipes have to route across the bottom of the beams to get to the places where they turn and run parallel (where I can simply turn it up and get up to the roof deck - but comically, the client doesn't want anything attached to the roof deck, so the installer is going to get to have a field day figuring out how to support the pipe (every 5' - despite it being filled with nothing but air).
Fortunately that's not my problem - but someone pointed out that some other equipment we need to put up at the roof was going to require a solution. Fortunately the electrician is going to be installing 4" square boxes at each location a device will be installed, so we decided to sketch up a modified cover plate that would allow the device to bolted to the cover with another hole for a wiring gland.
Another guy actually sketched the detail, but a brief glance at the data sheet set my OCD on edge. I'm not so bad as to need to flip lights on/off a certain number of times to leave a room - but I have spent a lot of time honing my pattern matching and spatial dimension skills, so I often spot stuff that other people completely miss.
The sheet showed three 9/32" holes - the first two were 2" apart on the left side with a third on the right 1-3/4" from the midpoint of the first two - but the diagram was fucking WRONG. The dimensions were very close - but whoever drew the diagram had made the hole on the left 2" away as well, resulting in a skewed picture. Ironically, directly to the right of this diagram was a note indicating 3 holes 120 degrees apart on a 2.312 bolt circle.
Purely for my own amusement, I decided to sketch the holes in CAD. First with the 2" and 1-3/4" dimensions - then with a 2.312 circle and a polar array of circles 120 degrees apart (it was about this time that the guy who drew the detail told me I was getting obsessed with it). At first glance they looked identical, but when I overlayed them, there was a discrepancy of 1/32".
It's not enough to worry about (in fact, the default dimension resolution in CAD doesn't even register the difference - even though you can clearly see two holes sitting next to each other) and despite the actual dimension being 1.71875" rather than 1.75", it will probably bolt right up. Comically, we received a CAD file showing side/top/front and a '3d' view - none of which showed the actual mounting holes (you could only make out two on the '3d' view).
I'm not a mathematician, but I do hold a fascination with the ability of mathematics to define things down to a ridiculous level of accuracy. In this particular case, I know 1/32" doesn't matter - but there are situations where it absolutely fucking does. I've seen machine tools capable of accuracy up to 1/1000" (and now with the ability to work at the nano level - even more accurate than that).
It's not necessary for every day use - but as long as we are here, let's at least get it as close as possible.
Obsessively Yours,
-.000000000001 SkullFucks
Next Time: Can You Get Any Stupider?
P.S. - Because my brain literally never stops thinking about this stuff, I had a slight epiphany this morning while putting my shoes on that while lining up either the two holes or the one hole does result in a 1/32" discrepancy on the other side, splitting the difference might only result in 1/64" offset at each hole. I tested this theory by redrawing it, only to find that in reality, none of the holes actually line up - but the discrepancy is so small as to be negligible. My point still stands though - I'm fundamentally insane.
Nobody Gives a Fuck About Anything Anymore
Gertings,
Within the course of the last week, I ran across more fuckups by more idiots than should be statistically possible, leading me to believe that eating lead-based paint chips has become the new 'Tide Pod Challenge'.
The first (that I may have mentioned in a previous post) came up a while back,when a (government) client came asking for dimensions for a panel cabinet that we were providing. My first inclination was to tell them 'look at the data sheet we supplied in the submittal moron', but I decided to take a look at it myself first - and sure enough, while there are copious dimensions on the detail for the panel, they were sorely lacking in completion (and as I would find later on - accuracy).
Now, most people wouldn't notice, care, or whatever - they would just get the cabinet, and install it. In this particular case, this cabinet was being installed to replace an older cabinet, and all of the conduit in the building is threaded, so they wanted to make absolutely sure about how the new panel would fit - but unfortunately the data sheet only showed dimensions for the top two slotted mounting holes, and the relative dimensions for the knock-outs for connecting conduits.
I was supplied with a CAD file - and I was like 'oh cool - I can just dimension this thing and 'voila', but I immediately started to notice that it had almost zero to do with anything in reality. It had obviously been drawn as a basic schematic, and very few (like one) of the dimensions were correct. I contacted the manufacturer's regional rep - and he seemed to be at a loss to provide me with anything more than what the data sheet showed, but by coincidence we received a panel for another project that was identical to the one that we were specifying for this project.
I took the dimensions off of it, made a detail, and sent it on - and I thought that would be the last of it, but then the client came back asking why there was a discrepancy between the data sheet and my detail. The data sheet showed a 25" width - but the actual dimensions of the cabinet were 24" (inside) and 26-1/2" to the flanges on the front. I pulled the cabinet back out and had a guy hold the tape measure on it so I could take pictures and forwarded these on.
When I started to put the cabinet away - a sheet of paper fell out of the box, and what the fuck do you know? There was a complete set of dimensions - for not just this cabinet, but for all of the cabinets in that product line - and what's more, they even appeared to be correct! I scanned this sheet in and sent it along, filed it on our server, and then sent it back to the manufacturer to ask them why the hell they didn't simply provide me with this sheet when I came asking about it (oh - and to tell them to fix their goddamned data sheet and CAD files).
With that debacle (maybe) out of my way, I started work on a massive data center (one of several we are getting ready to do). The first step was to take an engineer's attempt at laying out an elaborate building-wide system, and run (or more accurately - rerun) calculations to make sure that it will work as shown. It was going swimmingly until I got to the large server room, and I started to notice that whoever did the layout (almost certainly in Revit) hadn't really been paying close attention - and the engineer that signed off on it hadn't looked at it that closely either.
The first thing I noticed was that their match lines didn't match up (thus negating the point in 'match lines'). This was a minor quibble though, as I started to notice inconsistencies, missing information, duplicate (and overlapping) information, and several areas where equipment wasn't even close to being documented correctly - resulting in the counts that were used to price the project being off. They weren't massive errors, but they were sufficient that if I were to allow my drawings (and calculations) to go out 'as is', problems would absolutely arise when it came time to install and commission the system.
On top of this, calculating it 'as is' would result in running 5-6 times as many sets of calculations than it would if the inconsistencies and errors were corrected - so we marked up a set and sent it off as an RFI to the engineer (and that's where it sits for now - although the deadline probably isn't going to get pushed back much - if at all, so I get to decide whether or not to go forward 'as is', or make the corrections that I assume the engineer will agree need to be made.
Neither option is particularly appealing until we actually hear back, but the guy sending the RFI on is aware that it is holding us up, and promised to fast-track it. We'll see if that actually happens - but in the meantime I still have plenty of other things to fix (like the fact that there is no consistency to the distances they put between devices (going down a row the dimensions will vary from 14'-2" to 14'-6" to 13'-8" - for no discernible reason).
Someone was either cutting and pasting, or just haphazardly slapping stuff into the drawing (or model), and I don't know (or care) if they are Revit families, or just 2D linework in Revit. Either way, they are fucking wrong, and it's wasting my time and mental effort.
Fuck these people - and fuck Revit.
-SkullFuck
-Next Time: OCD Screw Holes
P.S. - Every single sheet in this engineers set ended up with a long sheet # (to designate which data center it was for) which resulted in the sheet # wrapping onto a second line. Instead of shrinking the text size down - the top line completely overlaps the words 'Sheet Number', and the second line is butted directly up next to the discipline name. It's legible, but looks like unadulterated ass - possibly fixable, maybe not - but fucks to give obviously came in short supply after this firm decided to Revitize.
- It has come to my immediate attention that there is an almost complete and utter lack of fucks being given these days.
Within the course of the last week, I ran across more fuckups by more idiots than should be statistically possible, leading me to believe that eating lead-based paint chips has become the new 'Tide Pod Challenge'.
The first (that I may have mentioned in a previous post) came up a while back,when a (government) client came asking for dimensions for a panel cabinet that we were providing. My first inclination was to tell them 'look at the data sheet we supplied in the submittal moron', but I decided to take a look at it myself first - and sure enough, while there are copious dimensions on the detail for the panel, they were sorely lacking in completion (and as I would find later on - accuracy).
Now, most people wouldn't notice, care, or whatever - they would just get the cabinet, and install it. In this particular case, this cabinet was being installed to replace an older cabinet, and all of the conduit in the building is threaded, so they wanted to make absolutely sure about how the new panel would fit - but unfortunately the data sheet only showed dimensions for the top two slotted mounting holes, and the relative dimensions for the knock-outs for connecting conduits.
I was supplied with a CAD file - and I was like 'oh cool - I can just dimension this thing and 'voila', but I immediately started to notice that it had almost zero to do with anything in reality. It had obviously been drawn as a basic schematic, and very few (like one) of the dimensions were correct. I contacted the manufacturer's regional rep - and he seemed to be at a loss to provide me with anything more than what the data sheet showed, but by coincidence we received a panel for another project that was identical to the one that we were specifying for this project.
I took the dimensions off of it, made a detail, and sent it on - and I thought that would be the last of it, but then the client came back asking why there was a discrepancy between the data sheet and my detail. The data sheet showed a 25" width - but the actual dimensions of the cabinet were 24" (inside) and 26-1/2" to the flanges on the front. I pulled the cabinet back out and had a guy hold the tape measure on it so I could take pictures and forwarded these on.
When I started to put the cabinet away - a sheet of paper fell out of the box, and what the fuck do you know? There was a complete set of dimensions - for not just this cabinet, but for all of the cabinets in that product line - and what's more, they even appeared to be correct! I scanned this sheet in and sent it along, filed it on our server, and then sent it back to the manufacturer to ask them why the hell they didn't simply provide me with this sheet when I came asking about it (oh - and to tell them to fix their goddamned data sheet and CAD files).
With that debacle (maybe) out of my way, I started work on a massive data center (one of several we are getting ready to do). The first step was to take an engineer's attempt at laying out an elaborate building-wide system, and run (or more accurately - rerun) calculations to make sure that it will work as shown. It was going swimmingly until I got to the large server room, and I started to notice that whoever did the layout (almost certainly in Revit) hadn't really been paying close attention - and the engineer that signed off on it hadn't looked at it that closely either.
The first thing I noticed was that their match lines didn't match up (thus negating the point in 'match lines'). This was a minor quibble though, as I started to notice inconsistencies, missing information, duplicate (and overlapping) information, and several areas where equipment wasn't even close to being documented correctly - resulting in the counts that were used to price the project being off. They weren't massive errors, but they were sufficient that if I were to allow my drawings (and calculations) to go out 'as is', problems would absolutely arise when it came time to install and commission the system.
On top of this, calculating it 'as is' would result in running 5-6 times as many sets of calculations than it would if the inconsistencies and errors were corrected - so we marked up a set and sent it off as an RFI to the engineer (and that's where it sits for now - although the deadline probably isn't going to get pushed back much - if at all, so I get to decide whether or not to go forward 'as is', or make the corrections that I assume the engineer will agree need to be made.
Neither option is particularly appealing until we actually hear back, but the guy sending the RFI on is aware that it is holding us up, and promised to fast-track it. We'll see if that actually happens - but in the meantime I still have plenty of other things to fix (like the fact that there is no consistency to the distances they put between devices (going down a row the dimensions will vary from 14'-2" to 14'-6" to 13'-8" - for no discernible reason).
Someone was either cutting and pasting, or just haphazardly slapping stuff into the drawing (or model), and I don't know (or care) if they are Revit families, or just 2D linework in Revit. Either way, they are fucking wrong, and it's wasting my time and mental effort.
Fuck these people - and fuck Revit.
-SkullFuck
-Next Time: OCD Screw Holes
P.S. - Every single sheet in this engineers set ended up with a long sheet # (to designate which data center it was for) which resulted in the sheet # wrapping onto a second line. Instead of shrinking the text size down - the top line completely overlaps the words 'Sheet Number', and the second line is butted directly up next to the discipline name. It's legible, but looks like unadulterated ass - possibly fixable, maybe not - but fucks to give obviously came in short supply after this firm decided to Revitize.
Monday, July 9, 2018
The BIM Molesto.
Greetings!
So I'm having my morning constitutional on Saturday, and I'm thinking about the poor stupid dipshits who keep sticking their pencil dicks into the Revit pencil sharpener, and I run across a Revitard's blog called 'The BIM Manifesto'.
The best I can tell is that this guy is (or at least was) doing Mechanical design with Revit - and while he likes to throw in lots of caveats, it's obvious that he's got the Revit dick squarely lined up and jammed about 3/4 of the way into his eye-socket. His last post was from July of 2016 entitled 'You Are Not a Victim', so I can only assume that he was beaten to death by someone who got tired of his naive way of discussing the finer points of a piece of software that can and will destroy anything resembling productivity and process in a firm.
The specific article I ran across first was this fairly comical read about avoiding the 'number one money-burning mistake most firms make with Revit' (as opposed to the number two through infinity money burning mistakes that anyone using Revit is making). Now - I'm proud to be the exact strawman that he casts most of his aspersions on - and I used to hear almost every single talking point that he goes through verbatim from people who could barely issue a project correctly or on time (if at all) once the people I was working with became infatuated with Revit.
He runs down the litany of problems that a firm is going to have if it buys into BIM bullshit, while steadfastly insisting that there is a *correct* way to buy into BIM bullshit. All they have to do is predict those problems, select the proper solutions, and voila! It's basically the equivalent of 'step 2 - then a miracle happens'.
One of the main differences that I could see in my experience vs. his, is that he talks a lot about the disconnect between project managers and 'Revit nerds'. If only those silly PM's would understand that things are different now because of reasons, then they would understand that things are different now because of reasons. The only PM's I had to deal with were the Architectural PM's, most of whom were actually fairly well versed in Revit (as opposed to the actual Architects who were too busy Architecting to be worried about what software was being used to generate their work product.
There was my boss, the Electrical Engineer - but he trusted me to handle my own projects and only bring them to him when there were questions that needed his input, meaning I was basically my own project manager, as well as doing design, and drafting (and damn good at it I might add). People generally preferred to talk to me rather than the Engineer (since he lived to make fun of stupid people - especially Architect lackeys), and because I was handling all aspects of the job, it made sense not to waste his time unless it was absolutely necessary.
He personally didn't give a fuck what software I used to do projects, as long as they were done on time and correctly (which they always were) so that he didn't have to hear about it from clients, or anyone else in the office. Unfortunately after Revit became the 'phallus du jour' for the firm, he started hearing about how we needed to be 'all Revit all the time' from people who had gone from being able to consistently crank out projects to people who spent half the day gazing at their navels and rotating their 3D models around on the screen to look busy.
Mr. 'BIM Manifesto' has a fantastic way of waving his hand at what he seems to be fully aware is a literal mountain of potential for projects declining into irredeemable clusterfucks - and like I said earlier, his solution is simply 'try to avoid them'. To his credit, that is exactly what my firm tried to do - and as time went on, they attempted to improve the template they were using to start projects, determine processes for how a project needed to be started, and streamline that process so that people weren't getting involved with a project until the Architectural model had reached a significant level of completion.
Of course, by that time, the schedule has moved from 'need it now' to 'need it yesterday', and quickly morphs into 'needed it two weeks ago' - and that's when the litany of problems that he admits can crop up would start. Even if every single person involved is well-versed in Revit, and is 100% behind making it work (i.e. - clapping their hands loud enough, despite having several fingers removed from one of their hands), all it takes is one assumption (the mother of all fuck-ups) by one incompetent person who inexplicably has the same amount of control over the model as everyone else - and down the toilet you go.
It doesn't help that everyone involved is operating from a cult mindset - one that constantly reinforces it's core beliefs that Revit = God. One of my favorite quotes from one of his posts is this:
"BIM Evangelists tend to be really smart people who struggle to understand people who aren't as sharp as they are with software. This lack of empathy means they are likely to lead the group into deep waters before the rest of the pack is ready."
The fact that he uses the word 'evangelist' is telling - but it's especially hilarious given that while 'smart' people indeed struggle dealing with people who are not as smart (like every IT guy who has ever had to remove fifty 'programs' that a user has installed because they click 'OK' on every message that ever comes up on their computer without reading it first can attest), it's rare you find an actual 'smart' person who is willing to buy into the kind of groupthink that Revit engenders.
There were plenty of smart people using Revit at my last firm (primarily in the structural department), but they were far outstripped by those who couldn't find their own ass with both hands, a mirror, and a flashlight.
And those people, my skullfucked friends, were absolutely in way over their heads in extremely deep waters.
But hey - fuck 'em, fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and if you don't like it - take a number, then go fuck yourself.
-SkullFuck
Next Time: Is There No Standard Anymore? Part Deux
So I'm having my morning constitutional on Saturday, and I'm thinking about the poor stupid dipshits who keep sticking their pencil dicks into the Revit pencil sharpener, and I run across a Revitard's blog called 'The BIM Manifesto'.
The best I can tell is that this guy is (or at least was) doing Mechanical design with Revit - and while he likes to throw in lots of caveats, it's obvious that he's got the Revit dick squarely lined up and jammed about 3/4 of the way into his eye-socket. His last post was from July of 2016 entitled 'You Are Not a Victim', so I can only assume that he was beaten to death by someone who got tired of his naive way of discussing the finer points of a piece of software that can and will destroy anything resembling productivity and process in a firm.
The specific article I ran across first was this fairly comical read about avoiding the 'number one money-burning mistake most firms make with Revit' (as opposed to the number two through infinity money burning mistakes that anyone using Revit is making). Now - I'm proud to be the exact strawman that he casts most of his aspersions on - and I used to hear almost every single talking point that he goes through verbatim from people who could barely issue a project correctly or on time (if at all) once the people I was working with became infatuated with Revit.
He runs down the litany of problems that a firm is going to have if it buys into BIM bullshit, while steadfastly insisting that there is a *correct* way to buy into BIM bullshit. All they have to do is predict those problems, select the proper solutions, and voila! It's basically the equivalent of 'step 2 - then a miracle happens'.
One of the main differences that I could see in my experience vs. his, is that he talks a lot about the disconnect between project managers and 'Revit nerds'. If only those silly PM's would understand that things are different now because of reasons, then they would understand that things are different now because of reasons. The only PM's I had to deal with were the Architectural PM's, most of whom were actually fairly well versed in Revit (as opposed to the actual Architects who were too busy Architecting to be worried about what software was being used to generate their work product.
There was my boss, the Electrical Engineer - but he trusted me to handle my own projects and only bring them to him when there were questions that needed his input, meaning I was basically my own project manager, as well as doing design, and drafting (and damn good at it I might add). People generally preferred to talk to me rather than the Engineer (since he lived to make fun of stupid people - especially Architect lackeys), and because I was handling all aspects of the job, it made sense not to waste his time unless it was absolutely necessary.
He personally didn't give a fuck what software I used to do projects, as long as they were done on time and correctly (which they always were) so that he didn't have to hear about it from clients, or anyone else in the office. Unfortunately after Revit became the 'phallus du jour' for the firm, he started hearing about how we needed to be 'all Revit all the time' from people who had gone from being able to consistently crank out projects to people who spent half the day gazing at their navels and rotating their 3D models around on the screen to look busy.
Mr. 'BIM Manifesto' has a fantastic way of waving his hand at what he seems to be fully aware is a literal mountain of potential for projects declining into irredeemable clusterfucks - and like I said earlier, his solution is simply 'try to avoid them'. To his credit, that is exactly what my firm tried to do - and as time went on, they attempted to improve the template they were using to start projects, determine processes for how a project needed to be started, and streamline that process so that people weren't getting involved with a project until the Architectural model had reached a significant level of completion.
Of course, by that time, the schedule has moved from 'need it now' to 'need it yesterday', and quickly morphs into 'needed it two weeks ago' - and that's when the litany of problems that he admits can crop up would start. Even if every single person involved is well-versed in Revit, and is 100% behind making it work (i.e. - clapping their hands loud enough, despite having several fingers removed from one of their hands), all it takes is one assumption (the mother of all fuck-ups) by one incompetent person who inexplicably has the same amount of control over the model as everyone else - and down the toilet you go.
It doesn't help that everyone involved is operating from a cult mindset - one that constantly reinforces it's core beliefs that Revit = God. One of my favorite quotes from one of his posts is this:
"BIM Evangelists tend to be really smart people who struggle to understand people who aren't as sharp as they are with software. This lack of empathy means they are likely to lead the group into deep waters before the rest of the pack is ready."
The fact that he uses the word 'evangelist' is telling - but it's especially hilarious given that while 'smart' people indeed struggle dealing with people who are not as smart (like every IT guy who has ever had to remove fifty 'programs' that a user has installed because they click 'OK' on every message that ever comes up on their computer without reading it first can attest), it's rare you find an actual 'smart' person who is willing to buy into the kind of groupthink that Revit engenders.
There were plenty of smart people using Revit at my last firm (primarily in the structural department), but they were far outstripped by those who couldn't find their own ass with both hands, a mirror, and a flashlight.
And those people, my skullfucked friends, were absolutely in way over their heads in extremely deep waters.
But hey - fuck 'em, fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, and if you don't like it - take a number, then go fuck yourself.
-SkullFuck
Next Time: Is There No Standard Anymore? Part Deux
Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring - Revit Phone.....
So buried inside of a medical facility plan that we received from some Revitards was this beauty - 13,926 line segments (13,214 of which are in the fucking cord). I deleted over 20 of them, for a total of nearly 300,000 lines (in addition to hundreds and hundreds of thousands of lines showing the pattern on the bottom of the showers, buttfuckloads of hatching showing wall types (that I don't care about) and all kinds of other pieces of highly-detailed medical equipment and other overkill.
Every wall in the building had a multitude of extra line segments wherever it would join another wall - it was apparently breaking every line wherever it would cross a perpendicular line (even though the perpendicular line didn't actually extend to the line that was broken. I cleaned up the majority of the wall joints, and eliminated god only knows how much more geometry. It seems like as Revit has fully engulfed the industries that it set out to destroy, the concern for it's ability to export out usable files has gone completely by the wayside.
This drawing went from barely being able to open, lagging every time you switched sheets, taking forever to save (and autosave) to being a fully functional (and rather beautiful I might add) drawing that we were able to use to generate access control drawings. Part of the problem was that someone else started setting up the drawings, and I didn't realize that the Revitards had sent us their individual sheets rather than an actual floor plan (which, in addition to having to be pieced together, quickly showed that they hadn't actually documented the entire building - just the parts that they were upgrading or adding stuff to).
One of my coworkers and I spent several days on this project - which was exacerbated by the fact that the guy who had sold it was withholding important information (like a door schedule that listed all of the equipment they wanted at each door - but which was somewhat incomplete and difficult to decipher). I drew details for each instance, so the installer should be able to tell what exactly needs to be done - with some catch-all notes to make sure that the incompetent morons who modeled it and the incompetent morons who slapped together the door schedule (possibly the same incompetent morons) didn't fuck us over.
Then it was back to doing the absolute bare minimum to rig up a set of drawings for a massive school that had come to me in bits and pieces of ancient scans, early attempts at CAD, and then years of revisions (all, of course, done as partial plans that had to be pasted and shoehorned in), AND the new addition that was the reason that the school is going to have to take their decades old, grandfathered in clusterfuck of a fire alarm system and actually upgrade it to meet code.
Of course, rather than just do this correctly, the first set we are submitting is going to be a one-for-one replacement of existing equipment (just to get it all into one system) which will fail miserably when reviewed (unless somebodies brother's cousin's uncle's in-laws work at the Fire Marshall's office - which is always a possibility). Sadly, this is the plan - because then we can determine what is necessary to bring it up to code, quote a price to fix it, completely redo it (again) and then go through the process of trying to convince the AHJ who we just sent garbage drawings to that this set is worth looking at.
I was able to cobble together a set based on one of our installers field notes on my layout - which I had sent to them in March, but only heard back about in the middle of June when the salesman contacted the owner of the company (that we both work for) to complain that I had designed a code compliant system. This attempt at throwing me under the bus gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, so I got on the phone with the salesman, his boss (who is basically a co-owner of the company - although they operate out of a different office - we have six total), and they tried to pretend like they had taken my drawings into the field and marked them up (they hadn't).
I started receiving bits and pieces of information (most of which was not useful, and some of which was downright annoying - like the part where they marked up the original drawings of part of the building rather than the set I had sent them), at which point I fired off an e-mail to the salesman
explaining exactly what I was going to need to provide them with an updated (yet far from complete) set - and blind CC'd both the owner and the co-owner.
I almost immediately received a response from the co-owner that put a huge smile on my face. It simply read 'GET HIM'. It was vindication that I had been doing my job based on the information I was being given, and that their attempts at blaming me for their own fuckups - like the three month window between when I sent them a checkset to mark up and when they contacted the owner to bitch about me (and lie about having done so).
The worst part is that this project isn't even remotely done with - I have already had to bill waaaay too many hours to it, and when it falls back in my lap it's going to take waaaay too many more, because I can guarantee I'm not going to get any help from these stupid fuckups. Fortunately this isn't my first rodeo - and I can put the beatdown on any project (even when I'm at a disadvantage).
I've shown time and time again that I've got the tools, and I've got the talent - so fuck anyone who gets in my way.
-SkullFuck
Next Time: I review 'The BIM Manifesto' and excoriate the dumbfuck who wrote it.
Monday, June 18, 2018
Garbage
Salut!
Just when I think I've already seen the shittiest shit that revit can shit out - someone sends me something that is almost spectacular in its resemblance to a dumpster fire.
It's a six story storage facility - so 99% of it is just corridors, and apparently the only direction the architect gave to his Reviteers was 'make this look as amateurish as humanly possible'. Since modeling over 1,000 storage units wasn't really feasible, they apparently modeled one of each and then attempted to copy/paste them throughout the building, resulting in... well... garbage.
I set about cleaning it up (and once I start, I can't just leave it 'so-so' - it's going to be as close to perfect as humanly possible when I'm done), then opened the electrical drawings. The pathetic bullshit I was looking at damn near made the architectural drawings look like a work of art. They were apparently going for a 'minimalist' approach to drawing it - but instead it ended up 'incomprehensible'.
I actually almost felt bad for both the revitard that layed it out, and the engineer who thought it was worthy of putting his signature on. My only hope is that they were the low bid, and decided to half-ass it (and/or they were forced to use revit, and said 'fuck it'), because if this is what they considered 'good work', then they need to be taken out behind the woodshed and beaten relentlessly.
On the other hand, if I were an electrical contractor attempting to install based on these drawings, beatings wouldn't suffice - at least one limb would have to be severed from each person responsible.
Then, today, I actually received a set of drawings that someone from my old firm Revited up - and holy goddamned fuck does this shit look retarded. For some reason they left hatching on to show the floor throughout their plans (as if someone might make the mistake that empty space might be misinterpreted as the building had an infinitely deep hole inside the building envelope).
They managed to set it light enough to keep their drawings from being totally illegible in the .pdf set, but it comes in as the same color as the walls/etc. when they exported it out to CAD (which they did - one sheet at a time, each in it's own .zip file for some weird reason). It also suffers from the classic problem of not having one set of titleblock information throughout the set - so the cover sheet for the entire set of drawings has the title in all-caps, while the electrical sheets are in lower-case, and many of them have overlapping letters (and even inexplicable misspellings/additional letters).
Their attempt at laying out fire alarm equipment is truly amateurish - it literally hurts to look at it. Many of the symbols got fucked up when they exported it too - meaning I will have to spend extra time deciphering what the fuck they were intending to show. The only up side is that I get to laugh at what a shit show that place turned into both while I was still there, and after I left.
They've got the Revit dick so embedded in their eye sockets that it's just whipping them around the room and ejaculating onto their shriveled brain stems (as their brains themselves withered away a long time ago) and they pray for death to free them.
Death will not be the end though - anyone willingly accepting that Revit dick is going to spend an eternity in a lake of poorly developed Revit families, while suffering the pain of millions of view range settings consuming their flesh.
As always - fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, fuck amateurish attempts at Reviting and/or engineering, and if you don't like it - FUCK YOU.
Au revoir,
Le Ccrâne Merde
Next Time:Ring Ring Ring....
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Just when I think I've already seen the shittiest shit that revit can shit out - someone sends me something that is almost spectacular in its resemblance to a dumpster fire.
It's a six story storage facility - so 99% of it is just corridors, and apparently the only direction the architect gave to his Reviteers was 'make this look as amateurish as humanly possible'. Since modeling over 1,000 storage units wasn't really feasible, they apparently modeled one of each and then attempted to copy/paste them throughout the building, resulting in... well... garbage.
I set about cleaning it up (and once I start, I can't just leave it 'so-so' - it's going to be as close to perfect as humanly possible when I'm done), then opened the electrical drawings. The pathetic bullshit I was looking at damn near made the architectural drawings look like a work of art. They were apparently going for a 'minimalist' approach to drawing it - but instead it ended up 'incomprehensible'.
I actually almost felt bad for both the revitard that layed it out, and the engineer who thought it was worthy of putting his signature on. My only hope is that they were the low bid, and decided to half-ass it (and/or they were forced to use revit, and said 'fuck it'), because if this is what they considered 'good work', then they need to be taken out behind the woodshed and beaten relentlessly.
On the other hand, if I were an electrical contractor attempting to install based on these drawings, beatings wouldn't suffice - at least one limb would have to be severed from each person responsible.
Then, today, I actually received a set of drawings that someone from my old firm Revited up - and holy goddamned fuck does this shit look retarded. For some reason they left hatching on to show the floor throughout their plans (as if someone might make the mistake that empty space might be misinterpreted as the building had an infinitely deep hole inside the building envelope).
They managed to set it light enough to keep their drawings from being totally illegible in the .pdf set, but it comes in as the same color as the walls/etc. when they exported it out to CAD (which they did - one sheet at a time, each in it's own .zip file for some weird reason). It also suffers from the classic problem of not having one set of titleblock information throughout the set - so the cover sheet for the entire set of drawings has the title in all-caps, while the electrical sheets are in lower-case, and many of them have overlapping letters (and even inexplicable misspellings/additional letters).
Their attempt at laying out fire alarm equipment is truly amateurish - it literally hurts to look at it. Many of the symbols got fucked up when they exported it too - meaning I will have to spend extra time deciphering what the fuck they were intending to show. The only up side is that I get to laugh at what a shit show that place turned into both while I was still there, and after I left.
They've got the Revit dick so embedded in their eye sockets that it's just whipping them around the room and ejaculating onto their shriveled brain stems (as their brains themselves withered away a long time ago) and they pray for death to free them.
Death will not be the end though - anyone willingly accepting that Revit dick is going to spend an eternity in a lake of poorly developed Revit families, while suffering the pain of millions of view range settings consuming their flesh.
As always - fuck Revit, fuck Autodesk, fuck amateurish attempts at Reviting and/or engineering, and if you don't like it - FUCK YOU.
Au revoir,
Le Ccrâne Merde
Next Time:Ring Ring Ring....
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