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
Thursday, September 6, 2018
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
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