Met a drafter who refused to use layers at all

Guy in a shared office in Austin told me layers are for amateurs. He had 800 lines of detail on one layer and a meltdown when the architect asked for a wall type change.

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riley_coleman1mo ago

Layers are for amateurs." I mean I get why some people feel that way. If you're the only one touching a file and you know exactly where everything is, layers can slow you down more than they help. I've seen guys crank out amazing detail work on a single layer because they memorized the drawing. But the second you hand that file off to someone else, you are asking for a disaster. That architect didn't ask for a wall type change to be annoying, he asked because the project changed. On one layer, you're not just changing a wall type, you're hunting through 800 lines of garbage and hoping you don't accidentally nuke the plumbing riser diagram. It's like bragging about never using a seatbelt on a test track, then blaming the other driver when you get in a crash on the highway.

blake4321mo ago

Ask @riley_coleman if you've ever had to rescue a single layer file from a coworker who quit halfway through a project or if this is all theoretical on your end lol. That seatbelt analogy is spot on though, single layer only works until it absolutely doesn't.