Hello Craig,

We use SprinkCad.  One of the 1st things I figured out how to do was
to move tags where I wanted them.


Best regards,
Charles Thurston
 CoastalFire                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 3:25:21 PM, you wrote:

> Question for the automated package users..... 

> I have been told by several contracts that they can not manipulate where
> the program places text, nodes and other type information on the
> drawings.  This has often resulted in some pretty crappy looking
> drawings and drawings that are hard to review, especially when text is
> stacked on top of each other to create a blob on the drawings.   Now I
> don't' know if it's really the software or just careless cad operators
> (notice I'm not using the term "designer" here).   Seems that more
> companies are using less skilled designers and just using cad drafters
> to produce layouts.  Cheaper labor but a poor product if design is the
> product you sell.

> Also had the same issue with the automated calcs.  The logic of order
> just didn't exist.  Going from a node in the middle of the system to
> another somewhere else and another somewhere else with no rhyme or
> reason makes for a miserably tedious review.  


> So the question is, is the problem in the software or the operators?


> Craig L. Prahl, CET
> Fire Protection Group
> Mechanical Department
> CH2MHILL
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> PO Box 491, Spartanburg, SC  29304-0491
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