When every job starts from zero, consistency suffers. Capturing a factory’s drawing standards in a template makes job fifty look like job one.
2D panels and 3D modules both come out of a factory, but they need different drawing packs. Here is what changes and what stays the same.
Light gauge steel lines run on member data. Here is what LGS panel documentation needs to include for the roll-former and the assembly table.
Open and closed panels leave the factory at very different stages. The drawings behind them need to change with them.
If your line is stopping to ask questions, the problem started in the drawings. Here’s why every panel decision should be made at LOD 400, before production.