Sheet sets that survive revisions
Most drawing sets fall apart at the third revision, not the first. Keeping view templates strict and naming sheets by discipline first, number second, saves an afternoon every time a client changes their mind.
Field Notes
Building, drawing, and the small tools in between.
Corridor models and the curse of small offsets
A two-centimetre offset in a road template looks harmless on screen. Across four kilometres of alignment it becomes a quantity takeoff nobody trusts. Notes on checking templates before they spread.
Scripts I keep rewriting
Renaming families, exporting schedules, cleaning up unused materials. Every office has the same five scripts written slightly differently. Here are mine, and why they keep changing.
Sketching before modelling
Ten minutes with a pencil still answers more questions than an hour of parametric fiddling. A short case for paper in a fully digital workflow.