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Old 9th December 2011, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Xploder View Post
Having worked as a pipefitter before, why are you guys telling him to use high-end CAD programs? The average pipefitter just wants a picture of where the pipes go. Whether you're talking about piping a building or piping a machine, they don't need 3-D rendered drawings to show that.
True. The pipefitter just needs a general idea of how things are supposed to go, and then he pipes it however he wants to. As designers, however, we do detailed drawings so that when the pipefitter fucks it up, we can say "If you had just installed it the way I drew it, it would have worked!" It's all about CYA.
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