Absolutely, do you have any time next week?
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Hi all - I completely forgot to mention that I have my presentation in a PDF you can get here Free | SketchUp4Builders.com
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How do you find the time to model so detailed and also run a construction company???
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Tomorrow I will be out but anytime this week or next Iâm open.
Ha, obsessed! I actually now have two techs doing most of the heavy lifting. I have trained them in my crazy ways and they can model anything I throw at them. A lot more money in building then in modeling!
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Awesome, I will circle back with you next week. Thanks!
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I designed a house (albeit not nearly as detailed as John) and was told by a couple of GCs and the local building company that I needed to âdumb downâ the plans - that the GCs see that detailed of a drawing package and immediately assume multi-million dollar house. So I stripped out all the frills and gave them what they all had been seeing for the last 50 years as far as plans go.
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Wow, that is a shame! I say move forward with innovation and let others catch up to you!
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Yeah. The home building industry has a lot of catching up to do - not only with the quality of plans but also the technology and building systems. We can learn a lot from the commercial guys, but the builders have to accept it.
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When I show this to builders, I can see their eyes glaze over âthatâs the LAST thing I want to spend time learningâ
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The other thing was - when I âdumbed down the drawingsâ - the cost went down too⌠
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Yep, well they are going to have to adapt or get left behind. That is my gameplan.
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Where and when will this presentation be available for viewing?
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Kevin,
I would be interested as well. 
mattd@modabydesign.net
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
I too have heard legends about GCs basing their estimate on the weight of the drawing set but generally I find that certainty comes cheaper than ambiguity.
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It is on the Crowcast website. crowdcast.io/ You can watch the next one live there next Wednesday.
Bob, I absolutely forgot to announce that I was giving away an overview of my presentation in PDF form. It is here if you want it, but then you already know it!! Free | SketchUp4Builders.com
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Howdy John, Many thanks for the great presentation! Do you ever have the lines from one Tag showing through another? Like when I put the siding on top of the framing tag? I think some people call it Z fighting? Do you have a solution? Thanks again and all the best, Stephen
Thanks Stephen! We use a thickness to sheathing and drywall, etc. and only see the Z fighting when zoomed out. Sometimes a nuisance but not too bad
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