Switched from paper redlines to markup on a tablet 2 years ago and never looked back

I fought it for years. Thought carrying around a tablet would just be another thing to break or lose on site. Then we had a 40 page set of MEP drawings get revised 3 times in one week back in 2022. I had scribbled all over the prints, erased stuff so many times the paper tore. My buddy handed me his iPad with a PDF markup app. I bought one the next day. Now I just screenshot the markups and email them straight to the foreman. No more smudged notes or missing pages. Any of you guys still doing it the old way or did you switch too?

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nancy15416d ago

Jumped right into digital markups myself after a similar mess with torn up blueprints and realized it's just part of how everything is moving faster these days. Seems like every trade I work with is ditching paper for tablets or phones, even the old timers eventually cave when they see how quick changes get sent around. It's funny how something that felt like extra hassle at first ends up saving your butt on a chaotic job site lol.

noahhernandez16d ago

The paper crowd gave me so much grief when I switched but now half of them ask me to forward their markups too. It's wild how fast the old guard changes their tune once they see you can zoom in on details without smudging everything. The real game changer was not having to carry around a roll of blueprints that gets soaked in the rain. My tablet screen cracked once and I was back to the paper store before lunch, that hurt. Never going back to fighting with red pencils on wet paper though.

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