Good Day Sirs/Madams,
So the incompetence continues into 2019, with my first major project coming across my desk this morning - another large school, fortunately all new and shiny, but no less of a mongolian clusterfuck.
The first thing I do is start flipping through the .pdf set they sent - and it's pretty straightforward - except for some 'typical' classrooms and other 'enlarged' areas.
I pull up the CAD files they exported out from what I don't doubt is Revit (although, other than the drawings looking like total shit, I haven't run across anything that would indicate Revitization (I usually find at least one or two guaranteed tell-tale signs, like circles that are two half circles (for whatever reason).
I got CAD files for both the Architectural and the Electrical Systems that I need - the Electrical drawings looked like total garbage. Both are broken up into views on individual sheets rather than one overall floor plan (and I don't have time to waste trying to extract a better set), but despite there being 60 fucking .dwg files for the Architectural, it's still inexplicably missing one corner of the building, and the entire second floor.
It's also missing two field houses - which I have Electrical .pdfs for that I'm going to convert to CAD (since the CAD files are missing backgrounds), one of which is supposed to be for baseball (according to the title on the sheet) but which is labeled 'football' on the view titles (the second one has 'football' for both the sheet and view titles, so I'm pretty sure I figured it out, despite their stupidity).
There's also the issue of one corner of the building's electrical drawings inexplicably missing some of the text (from what should be symbol blocks - but which are all exploded), but I can infer it from the other drawings, and I'm going to be replacing everything with my far superior symbols anyway. Oh - and where that drawing should be connected to the rest of the building is fucked up, so their drawings are actually missing all of the devices that belong on the other side of a door (but again, I'm smart enough to infer them).
I was wrong when I said that I didn't have any of the typical indications of Revitardation - obvious problems with view range started cropped up, causing several windows to disappear on their plans. It's fairly inconsequential to my drawings, but as I always say 'holy fucking shit, I can't believe these people are issuing this kind of garbage', and as I always say back 'it's not surprising, considering some poor Revit monkey probably reached the end of their rope, and said 'fuck it - good enough'.
Still not excusable.
Nearly every single door in the building is missing a frame (and by 'frame' I'm referring to a fucking rectangle to connect the door to the wall) - this was the first reason that I really wanted to clean up the Architectural plans (since they looked a little better) but without the upper right hand corner of the building, or the entire second fucking floor, I had to just go with the shitty looking Electrical plans (although if I get a chance, I might go ahead and fix up the doors).
All this bullshit just to get a functional background to work on - but even when I get done, it will have been less stress than just opening a Revit model and trying to figure out how badly it is fucked up (and then coming in every day not knowing how much more fucked up it will be).
I simply can't imagine working in that kind of environment anymore. It would be like going out to my car every morning and not knowing if the engine is going to start, or turn into a giant gay unicorn with rainbows shooting out of its ass.
No matter how fucked up my day gets, or how far off the rails a project goes, I always know I've got the tools and the ability to de-fuck and re-rail it - and that's golden.
Fuck Autodesk, fuck Revit, fuck Reviteers, and fuck you if you don't like it.
-lfuckSkul
Next Time: Addition Perdition
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
IT'S 2019 BITCHES!!!!!
And I'm still not using Revit for anything other than to receive shitty looking drawings like this:
That's right ladies and gentlefuckers - that there is a pair of tables that someone managed to attach to structural elements. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on because (somehow) part of the chairs had disappeared as well.
This is a fairly common issue that I run across when cleaning up the garbage vomited forth from the Revit dumpster fire. Entire sections of plans are sometimes obscured by things that are either accidentally dropped into the model (or a linked model), or are intentionally put there, but are supposed to show up at a different level - and someone either couldn't figure out how (or couldn't be bothered to give a shit) about correcting it.
It's never surprising, considering that NASA's TESS satellite has just identified 14 trillion additional view range settings orbiting Revit. In this case it was fairly simple to fix because there were similar elements nearby that could copied over after deleting the offending linework - but that's not always the case.
The lines that remain after some nonsensical piece of equipment or other element leave a gaping hole in a floor plan can sometimes be used to deduce how it was intended to look, but it can be a crap shoot. Sometimes I can look at .pdfs of another discipline's plans and infer more information - but more often than not, I have to just make my best guess.
The fact is, nobody is going to build the building from my plans, so they don't have to be perfect. They are mostly just for installing the systems we are providing (often by our own installers) - but they may have to go through various city/county/state/federal review processes, and I can't submit my drawings with a whole chunk of plan missing.
In cases where some misguided dipshit actually sends us the Revit model itself, we have an opportunity to fix it before exporting (since we have access to Revit through the other firm in our office), but in the time wasted opening a Revit model, watching it start the hour-long process to upgrade to the current version, cancel, then re-open it in the correct version, it can usually just be tweaked in CAD.
In other news - I received a hilarious e-mail the other day about someone wanting us to model some shit for 'collision detection' where 99% of the equipment was actually already modeled by the Engineer that we received the design from. It wasn't in the original contract, and if they force the matter, I'm going to open their model and dump a huge pile of useless (and massive) families into it, link several dozen useless files to it, and then try to send it back to them in a newer version of Revit than they are using.
Any complaints will be met with serious beatings.
As always, fuck autodesk, fuck Revit, fuck Revitbots/Revitards/Revit 'Gurus', and anyone else selling, marketing, purchasing, using, forcing others to use (or doing end runs around various engineering disciplines in order to require the use of) Revit.
It's 2019 fucksticks - time to get with the goddamn program.
-fuckSkull
Next Time: The Continued March Of The Dumbfucks.
That's right ladies and gentlefuckers - that there is a pair of tables that someone managed to attach to structural elements. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on because (somehow) part of the chairs had disappeared as well.
This is a fairly common issue that I run across when cleaning up the garbage vomited forth from the Revit dumpster fire. Entire sections of plans are sometimes obscured by things that are either accidentally dropped into the model (or a linked model), or are intentionally put there, but are supposed to show up at a different level - and someone either couldn't figure out how (or couldn't be bothered to give a shit) about correcting it.
It's never surprising, considering that NASA's TESS satellite has just identified 14 trillion additional view range settings orbiting Revit. In this case it was fairly simple to fix because there were similar elements nearby that could copied over after deleting the offending linework - but that's not always the case.
The lines that remain after some nonsensical piece of equipment or other element leave a gaping hole in a floor plan can sometimes be used to deduce how it was intended to look, but it can be a crap shoot. Sometimes I can look at .pdfs of another discipline's plans and infer more information - but more often than not, I have to just make my best guess.
The fact is, nobody is going to build the building from my plans, so they don't have to be perfect. They are mostly just for installing the systems we are providing (often by our own installers) - but they may have to go through various city/county/state/federal review processes, and I can't submit my drawings with a whole chunk of plan missing.
In cases where some misguided dipshit actually sends us the Revit model itself, we have an opportunity to fix it before exporting (since we have access to Revit through the other firm in our office), but in the time wasted opening a Revit model, watching it start the hour-long process to upgrade to the current version, cancel, then re-open it in the correct version, it can usually just be tweaked in CAD.
In other news - I received a hilarious e-mail the other day about someone wanting us to model some shit for 'collision detection' where 99% of the equipment was actually already modeled by the Engineer that we received the design from. It wasn't in the original contract, and if they force the matter, I'm going to open their model and dump a huge pile of useless (and massive) families into it, link several dozen useless files to it, and then try to send it back to them in a newer version of Revit than they are using.
Any complaints will be met with serious beatings.
As always, fuck autodesk, fuck Revit, fuck Revitbots/Revitards/Revit 'Gurus', and anyone else selling, marketing, purchasing, using, forcing others to use (or doing end runs around various engineering disciplines in order to require the use of) Revit.
It's 2019 fucksticks - time to get with the goddamn program.
-fuckSkull
Next Time: The Continued March Of The Dumbfucks.
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