Almost lost a whole project because I ignored layer standards last week

I was working on a commercial site plan for a strip mall in Austin, been drafting for about 6 years. Got handed a survey from a new engineer we hired, and his layers were all over the place, like random colors and names I never seen. I figured I'd just clean it up as I went, no big deal. But by day 3, I had pipes on the wrong layer, a foundation line mislabeled as a curb, and a mess that took me a whole Friday to untangle. The project manager almost missed a city deadline because of it. What do you guys do when you get files from someone who clearly never looked at your office's layer template?

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anthony_jackson3118d ago

My buddy spent three hours fixing someone else's layers and just deleted the whole file out of frustration.

troyc1718d ago

Happened to me last month with a site plan from a structural guy who used his own layer names for everything. Spent a whole afternoon just fixing linework and renaming layers before I could even start my own drafting. Now I just reject any file that doesn't match our template right from the start.

the_drew18d ago

Rejecting a whole file over layer names feels a little over the top, doesn't it? Seems like a quick fix instead of making everyone redo their work.