Reply To: Best practices for Designers – making Estimators more efficient

  • Vince

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    March 10, 2023 at 1:12 am
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    Hi @Nic_Bitting

    The line weights, shading and different font colours, etc are all really useful as they help us to understand a drawing very quickly.

    From a solely measuring perspective though, I always disable the line weights (a trick that @troy-degroot showed me and which has saved me massive amounts of time) and often turn the drawing to greyscale.

    These speeds up my process and also makes my markups stand out against what are often very cluttered drawings.

    In my opinion though, the biggest help is when designers leave the layers in their drawings. Being able to turn these on and off is a massive help on most projects.