My boss in Charlotte insisted I always dimension from the same origin point on a part file.

I thought it was just extra work, but it saved me a huge headache when the client asked for a revision. Has anyone else had a 'pointless' rule turn out to be crucial later?

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the_morgan1mo agoTop Commenter

Ever seen a drawing with like six different origin points?

karen_perry381mo ago

That Charlotte office must have seen some real disasters to make that a hard rule. I worked with a guy who dimensioned from wherever was closest on each view. When we had to shift a whole assembly two inches, it took a full day to untangle his drawing. What looked like a time-saver cost the project a deadline.

nathana4826d ago

Man, this one hits close to home. Had a supervisor at a shop in Detroit who was adamant about dimensioning off the same datum for every part. Drove me nuts at first, felt like busywork. But then we got a rush job where the customer wanted to move a mounting hole by 3mm. If I had dimensioned from random edges like everyone else, I would have been remeasuring the whole part. Your boss's rule sounds like it came from a painful lesson, especially with Charlotte's manufacturing scene.