Apprentice path · Stage 26: The paperwork that decides the work · Lesson 93

Read the revision

Drawings get reissued. The one you are building from has to be the one that is currently authorised, not the one you happen to have.

Why this matters on the job

Being fluent in a superseded drawing is worse than being slow on the current one. You will work quickly and confidently, and produce the previous version of the job.

How to think about it

  1. Expect a newer drawing to change the work.
  2. Confirm which revision is authorised before you build from it.
  3. Record questions and changes through the project process.

Worked through

Put Rev A and Rev B side by side and the differences are clouded on the sheet -- that is what the clouds are for. Two devices moved. Somebody who kept working from Rev A installs them where Rev A said, accurately, and then does it again in the right place after it is found.

Check yourself: You have a photo of the drawing on your phone from last week. Build from it?

Answer: No. Do not build from an old screenshot when a revised sheet has been issued.

A screenshot records what the drawing said when it was taken. It cannot tell you whether it has been reissued since, and it will keep looking authoritative forever.

Watch out for: Raising a change verbally and moving on. Record questions and changes through the project process -- a change agreed in a corridor is a change nobody else can see, and the next revision will not contain it.
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