Rant: I was fighting with this old building's floor plan for three days straight

The client's scans were a mess and nothing was lining up right in my CAD software. Out of pure frustration, I just started a new drawing and traced over the worst parts with a simple polyline, ignoring the messy layers. It took maybe twenty minutes and gave me a clean base to actually work from. Why do we always try to fix the broken file instead of just starting fresh from the good bits? Anyone else have a 'scrap it and trace' moment that saved a project?

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claire_lewis2d ago

My last map project, same thing.

uma_baker992d ago

Totally get that. Had a survey file last month with so many crossed lines it looked like a plate of spaghetti. Spent hours trying to clean it up before just putting it on a locked layer and redrawing the lot. Like @claire_lewis said, it happens more than you'd think. Sometimes the old stuff is just too far gone to fix properly. A fresh trace feels like cheating but it's the only thing that works.