Hot take: I was overcomplicating my layer management for years

I was working on a set of commercial kitchen plans for a restaurant in Austin, and my CAD file had over 80 layers. A senior drafter I met at a conference last month looked at my screen and just said, 'You're fighting your own system.' He showed me his method, which uses maybe 15 total layers grouped by construction phase, not individual element. It was a total 'aha' moment. Has anyone else had a layer system that was more of a problem than a solution?

2 comments

2 Comments

paul_nguyen23d ago

That senior drafter's method sounds like a total nightmare for revisions later on.

troy99623d ago

But what if his method actually saves time in the long run?