Biue Print Reading

RAZOR BLADE

Iam looking to find information about comercial blue print reading

Cole

What kind of information?

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ProWallGuy

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mdshunk

The best information I have to date seems to indicate that blue print reading is a good thing.

tgeb

Keeping them dry is a good thing also, don't leave them lying around on a rainy day.

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billie-t

blue print reading....well if you see sections on your drawing like AA or something like that...study it....draftmen are a lazy bunch..they do not put useless information on paper...if there are sections they want you to look at...you really should...they are trying to tell you something...like i said they are a lazy bunch

thom

We don't need no stinking blueprints.

RobertWilber

don't you just love old movies?

skymaster

Dont ya just luv the "reversed" ones?

mdshunk

Monday, 14 August, 2006

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Building Codes

In Alabama: Pastor says he was unaware of church building requirements.

Had things gone as planned, up to 500 people would have been crowding into the Cedar Grove Methodist Church near Thorsby today celebrating a job well done in the do-it-yourself construction of their new house of worship.
Instead, an 80-foot span of the new church's roof sits in a heap in the sanctuary floor right where those hundreds would have congregated.
"Thank God nobody was hurt," Pastor Jeff Carroll said. "He chose to let it come down on a Thursday evening when nobody was there."

The pastor isn't shy about proving that he's clueless:

Carroll, himself a homebuilder, said he was not aware of any requirements and remains unconvinced a government body should have a say in how a church is built. "If the state and the church are separate, I don't understand why they think they've got jurisdiction," he said.

Who designed it?

The Cedar Grove church designs were assembled by a church member and her daughter after looking at pictures on the Internet, Carroll said. Some hand drawings were made, then printed out on a computer program and used as the blueprints, he said.

firemike

Another article on the church roof.

http://www.clantonadvertiser.com/art...ews/a-news.txt

Pastor has an interesting point of view...

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thom

Not being a christian, maybe I just don’t understand this. If their God wants them to build a church, and their God is all powerful, why can’t their God just supply the money to do it properly?

JustaFramer

Pull 51' 6 5/8" off line BC and 40' 5 3/4" off C2 that is the corner of your wall. Then you see a circle that say's 23/ sk 5.2 so you flip to page sk 5.2 which is a structrual detail page and go to 23 on that page and you find out you need a rat wall that is 7 1/2" off those marks so the precast has bearing. Or there might be a circle that is half black and half white. That means you have a step in the footing and/or wall. With the details on page ak 6.3 detail 30

LOL Yeah you should take a class. Commercial prints can be as big as "War and Peace". LOL

mighty anvil

If you Google using the term "blueprints" to find appropriate information you will usually find books and courses targeted at builders and many of them are unfortunately at a pretty low level. Some are just plain rip offs.

Professional drafters/designers as well as professional level books often use terms like "construction/contract documents/plans/drawings". An older drafting term is "working drawings".

The reason for this is that professional document preparers have traditonally had to be careful to use the correct terms for reproduction media in order to get the correct prints back from the printer. A wrong order for a large job could be a very expensive mistake.

The blueprinting process was slowly replaced in the 50's and 60's with blue/blacklines but in the transition period if you ordered "blueprints" you got real blueprints with white lines on blue paper not the newer diazo blue or black lines on white paper so the terms were not used loosely in the drafting room. Of course, blueprinting and blue/blackline diazo printing is hard to find today in most of the US and plain white paper ink jet or laser printing is the standard.