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Had a drafting file lock up 2 hours before a deadline - saved or start fresh?
I was at my desk last Tuesday, 40 sheets deep on a commercial HVAC layout for a job in Phoenix, when AutoCAD just froze mid-zoom and corrupted the whole file. I spent 45 minutes pulling an older backup and redoing about 15 details from memory, but the rush job left a few duct risers slightly off. Do you stick with a patch-job recovery or nuke it and rebuild from scratch when time is tight?
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richard_dixon1mo agoMost Upvoted
That's a tough spot. I've been there with frozen CAD files and honestly, a patch job that's mostly right usually beats starting over and missing the deadline. You can always clean up those risers in a revision after the dust settles.
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alicesingh26d ago
Patch job that's mostly right" describes half my life decisions lately.
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king.andrew1mo ago
Patch job all the way but here is the thing. You said the risers are slightly off. By slightly do you mean the dimensions are within tolerance or are they going to cause a field conflict with a fire sprinkler line? Because if the numbers are off by half an inch, you can sleep on it and fix it on submittal review. But if the offsets shift the duct four inches you are asking for a call from the general contractor at 6 AM tomorrow demanding an RFI. What exactly is slightly to you?
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