Dubman Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Why is it so difficult to find a high/low ADA drinking fountain for a commercial building so I can use its elevation for my drawing. It is amazing what I get from searching every version of these words but no ADA drinking fountains. But I do find plenty of rugs, and tons of HVAC folders of items I'll never use. And it seems I have to know the manufacture of the item to find it. This sucks, I bet I can find one faster in SketchUp! Arg! Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I feel your pain. I'm often confounded by the naming hierarchy, & wonder if I could rename the folders to things that make sense to me. On the bright side, back before the turn of the millennium, us ol' geezers had to go to the company library, find what we wanted in Sweets or sift though binders & catalogues then redraw the item we wanted. So there's that. Quote Link to comment
Dubman Posted January 4, 2018 Author Share Posted January 4, 2018 Yes, those Sweet books were great for hold doors open! It took longer for SketchUp to open than for me to search, down load, convert, import, trace, and place into my drawing. Go figure Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Another oddity... If you search for "fridge" or "refrigerator" there are zero results. Turns out you have to search for "refrig" which is.... not obvious. I'm sure there are other instances where additional words could be added to tags to make searching easier. Quote Link to comment
Dubman Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Why isn't it organized with the 16 divisions so you know where to look for things? Why is there so many folders of HVAC components with one file in each? It is like the architect version has moved away from architecture, you can find more items that I would never use in my construction documents. I guess I need to spend the time in make a custom one & delete all of the items I will never use, but it will probable replace them when updating. Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 13 hours ago, Dubman said: Why isn't it organized with the 16 divisions so you know where to look for things? Why is there so many folders of HVAC components with one file in each? It is like the architect version has moved away from architecture, you can find more items that I would never use in my construction documents. I guess I need to spend the time in make a custom one & delete all of the items I will never use, but it will probable replace them when updating. Dubman, add this to the wish list! At present it's far to complex Quote Link to comment
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