Hot take: Paper check prints vs. full digital PDFs for my drawing markups

I've been going back and forth on this for the last 6 months at my job in Tacoma. Paper check prints feel more solid for catching errors, but digital PDFs save time and money for my small team. I stuck with full-size paper prints for a recent commercial project, and I missed a few dimension errors because the scale got off in the reduction. Has anyone else found a solid middle ground between these two methods for marking up drawings?

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park.tara20d ago

Is this really something worth losing sleep over for six months? I mean, it's just markup methods, not designing a bridge that's gonna collapse. You missed some dimension errors on paper prints too, so it's not like PDFs are the problem. People get way too precious about their workflow. If you're really sweating scale issues, just print a couple key sheets at full size instead of the whole set. Or better yet, learn to check the scale bar before you start marking up.

milap3520d ago

Notice this pattern everywhere now. People lose sleep over process instead of results. Had a friend spend weeks organizing their email folders while missing client deadlines. The method becomes the mountain nobody asked to climb.