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At least in construction to a large part the drawings are still considered the ground truth. They may be produced by CAD tools and autogenerated from 3D models.
by fsloth 11y ago
At least in construction to a large part the drawings are still considered the ground truth. They may be produced by CAD tools and autogenerated from 3D models. Generally they are read and re-read by various discipline specialists until anything gets built. So no one usually is just blindly trusting the output.
That said, mistakes happen in construction all the time. With or without cad. So, things failing in the field is an 'accepted' facet of the process - in that context it's probably very difficult to collect precise data which parts are to CAD errors and which are of different sort - too much noise.
That said, any engineering office worth their salt will enforce a single software version for a duration of a construction process. They all know there will be horrible bugs, but then they have a process to take them into account with expert users doing special configurations and vendors suggesting all sorts of workarounds. It's still far more efficient to do it like that rather than with pen and paper.
CAD is totally unlike this modern apps and ecosystems thing in so many ways.
- cm2187 11y agoBut in construction you typically keep huge safety margins, don't you (like in case someone left a dead body in the concrete!)?
- fsloth 11y ago(Note:I'm not personally in construction but my daily job involves implementing features for various CAD products.) Sure, but a design error is still a design error. The capability to recover from design errors might be there but it does not mean unexpected flaws won't incur an overhead to costs and schedule.