The 'Competition'

Let's get right to it, shall we?

So I'm fighting the good fight on the never-ending clusterfuck project (without actually engaging in the type of ass-whooping that these people desperate deserve), and after requesting some additional information, I manage to get a floor plan for the small building that they've decided to try to issue first (which, unsurprisingly, has changed extensively).

The envelope of the building has grown, and nearly (read: every) wall in the interior has moved - with entire areas being rearranged.  Fortunately the owner of the company I work for now happened to be standing in the room when I got it, and I was able to show him an overlay of the old vs. new plans so he knows that I'm not just saying these people are incompetent, it's right there in black and white (or black, white, and the purplish color I use for my background).

I've mentioned this in the past, but I don't know if it is possible (and even if it is, I've never seen anyone do it) to overlay two plans over the top of each other in Revit in order to compare differences.  I'm willing to bet it's not possible, since you would have to somehow have two models overlaid in order to accomplish it, and even if you put one higher than the other and then fiddled with view range settings, who the fuck  knows what the result would be?

It has helped me on countless occasions, because unlike opening a model and having to hunt down what has moved, it is (again) right there.  'Coordination' gets bandied about as a benefit of sucking the Revit cock, but I'm actually staring at a floor plan (on the larger building) where offices were removed, but the engineer designing the system I'm working on (and/or their Revit lackeys) didn't notice, so there is equipment still shown as if the offices were still there (resulting in their design being both *wrong* and *stupid looking*.

I've also noticed another area where elevator lobbies on two floor have had doors added, closing off from corridors - and because they didn't notice, there is now no equipment in those elevator lobbies (another door blocks off the stairwell on one level - creating a landing with no equipment on it either).  The only reason I'm catching this stuff (besides being meticulous as fuck) is that instead of allowing Revit to fuck me up, I'm actually paying attention and getting work done - 'coordination' my ass. 

So, after fiddling with the small building for a while, I requested mechanical drawings - so I could verify that more equipment wouldn't be necessary that nobody had thought of (happens on nearly every single project I do - sometimes *fucktons* of extra equipment that everyone thought would magically get 'coordinated' (there's that word again).  Instead, one of the idiots in charge of the project promptly sent me electrical drawings, and electrical riser (by itself, for some reason).

In their defense, they did send me *some* of the mechanical information for the larger building, but even it was incomplete, as they had decided at some point to break part of that building off, give it a TLA (three letter acronym) and apparently make it its own project (unless I'm told otherwise, it's staying as part of the building in my drawings, because they can go fuck themselves).  They did eventually provide me the rest of what I needed (which all looks like shit, and will require me to scour it to make sure we're kosher.

I was glad they had sent me the electrical though, because I was able to verify that they didn't have any electrical connections to the type of equipment I was looking for on the mechanical - but also because it gave me a glimpse of what these people think is acceptable work product:

 

That is a little snippet of a building (I'd love to post the whole thing, but I don't want to get in trouble - and I doubt anybody could tell what the fuck it is based on this little snip).  What you *can* see is... holy shit, are those structural elements?  Did the Revit Dick Socket (tm) that scribbled this nonsense not know how to limit his view range and/or turn them off (or at least shade them out)?  Did they actually think this looked good?  An actual 'electrical engineer' apparently thought it was good enough to put his seal/signature on.

That snippet really doesn't do it justice, because the whole drawing looks like that.  Just... fucking gobbledygook.  If I had attempted to hand that drawing to the electrical engineer I used to work for, he would've printed it out, wrapped it around his fist, and beaten me half to death with it (while making disparaging remarks about my mother) - and you know what?  He would be 100% justified in doing so.

As someone who did that type of work for over a decade, it's embarrassing to see what Revit has reduced these fucktards to.  I would piss directly on the person/people responsible for this shit, and if I were a project manager/client/etc. - and I opened a set of drawings to find this (not to mention an electrician who is expected to install based on this), I'd make sure it was the last time that particular firm was ever involved in one of my projects - ever again.

The saddest part of all - is that it probably took them considerable time, and herculean amounts of effort to get this pathetic fucking garbage out of Revit - to the point that they might even feel proud of what they accomplished.  I thought for a second of entertaining the idea that it was intentional - like a 'fuck you for making me use Revit' kind of thing, but I put that idea out of my head quickly.

This is what a once proud industry has been reduced to ladies and gentlemen.

I'm not even going to post pictures of 'what the fuckery' from the larger building - the architectural fuckups alone could fill volumes.  Zoom in on any two walls in the building and its just 'good enough'.  Delete any hatching and 'oh - that's what they were hiding behind hatching'.  Try to ignore the glaring errors and start doing your job - and your eyeballs will implode.  Does every piece of millwork in the building extend through walls?  Yes... yes it does.  Are half the dividers in the bathroom embedded into walls?  Yes... yes they are.

Are bulkheads and areas that are open to other floors so poorly rendered that you can't tell what the fuck is going on?  You fuckin' bet they are.

Do the people doing this project have any idea what they are doing (or how bad they are fucking everyone else involved)? Not a fucking chance.

Fuck Revit.

Fuck BIM, fuck Autodesk, fuck everyone responsible for this project specifically, and more broadly - fuck anyone selling, propagating, or willfully using Revit.

Not to sound like a broken fucking record - but fuck every one of you back-asswards, shit stench, monkey fucking, diseased donkey dick smoking, drain-bamaged, good-for-nothing asswipes.

That is all for now.

Sincerely,

SkullFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

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