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I enjoy documenting. I enjoy the design thinking that goes into good detailing, the artfulness of laying out a page, the methodical assembly of a rigorous documentation set. As the years have passed, I have codified a list of ten rules for exceptional documentation. Some have been bestowed upon me by peers like perfect golden nuggets of wisdom, others have come to me in epiphanic dreams, and yet others I have had to learn the hard way with gritted teeth and much yelling.
I hereby release this list into the wilds of the internet so that future architecture students may stumble upon its wholesome goodness in their moments of need.
An archive of the list can be accessed here.
8. Check, double check and triple check
Imagine…
Preparing a floor plan for the start of the documentation phase. This important drawing has been with you for a long time, months or years even. It began life all the way back in the research phase when it was nothing more than a measure up. It evolved substantially as you marched confidently through masterplanning and sketch design, and yet again through town planning and detail design. Finally, after all this time, it is ready to metamorphose into the lead drawing of your document set, the big kahuna.
But a colleague distracts you for a moment, asking about some trivial matter on some other project. Don’t interrupt me, you think, this is my floor plan’s big moment! But when you turn back to your drawing, you pause. What were you doing again? Idly, almost without meaning to do so, your left hand types out the distance command and your right hand clicks from one end of the kitchen to the other.
The wall is 4001.76394mm long.
Unfortunately, AutoCAD regularly produces oddly dimensioned lines like this. Not to mention lines on stray layers, un-deletable layers, weird blocks that come from nowhere, linetype scales that don’t match up… The list is endless and relentless.
Some would blame a malicious line of code under the AutoCAD hood that loves nothing more than messing with architects, others the universe’s tendency towards entropy. I am sure both are right, but how can an exceptional documentation set keep the forces of entropy at bay?
Check, double check, and triple check:
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