Watched a 2015 tutorial on dimensioning and it looked like a different language

I redid a drawing from that era last week and realized we've completely stopped using those stacked, leader-heavy notes. The switch to model-based definition over the past 8 years just made everything cleaner. Anyone else have old standards they're glad are gone?

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olivia_moore9d ago

Wait, people actually used to dimension like that? That looks like a nightmare.

jennifer8339d agoMost Upvoted

Look cora518 is making it sound like rocket science. It was just a different way to put numbers on paper. Olivia_moore has a point, it does look cluttered and confusing if you're used to modern CAD. Maybe it worked back then, but calling it "clean" is a real stretch. The old guys liked it because it was all they knew, not because it was some perfect system.

cora5189d ago

Olivia_moore, that old way was actually pretty smart. It kept all the important numbers in one spot so you didn't have to hunt around the drawing. The system made sense once you learned it, and it prevented a lot of mistakes on the shop floor. Calling it a nightmare just shows you never had to work with messy drawings that were missing info. That old method was clean and left no room for guessing. People knew exactly what every measurement was supposed to be.