The drawings register and revisions

Every drawing has a number and a revision, and superseding one is an event the site must see.

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The register

This is the drawings register. On a fit-out job it is the one document the studio and the site must read from the same way, so it is worth understanding before anything else.

Every sheet has a number you can call it by. ID for interior, E for electrical, A for architecture. The number is how the site asks for it and how you find it again next month.

A sheet carries its history

Open any sheet and you see its revisions listed in order. Each revision has a date and a status, so the register tells you the history of a drawing, not just its latest version.

A revision is a real event: the client moved a wall, or a dimension was corrected. Superseding a sheet records that, and stamps when it happened and who released it.

The cost of getting it wrong

Here is the part that costs real money. The site must always build from the current revision. Build to a superseded sheet and you hang a door in the wrong place — that is the mistake that makes a wall get ripped out.

When a new revision is issued, it pushes to everyone working from that sheet. The engineer does not have to ring around to say the drawing changed; the register already says it.

Drawings beside the work

Drawings live beside the tasks, not in a separate folder. So when Tarek opens the joinery card on site, the latest set is sitting underneath it.

The habit that matters

One habit worth building: before anything gets built, check that the sheet in hand is marked current. A revision checked once costs nothing; the same check missed is the most expensive line on the job.

What just happened

  1. The register

    This is the drawings register. On a fit-out job it is the one document the studio and the site must read from the same way, so it is worth understanding before anything else.

  2. A sheet carries its history

    Open any sheet and you see its revisions listed in order. Each revision has a date and a status, so the register tells you the history of a drawing, not just its latest version.

  3. The cost of getting it wrong

    Here is the part that costs real money. The site must always build from the current revision. Build to a superseded sheet and you hang a door in the wrong place — that is the mistake that makes a wall get ripped out.

  4. Drawings beside the work

    Drawings live beside the tasks, not in a separate folder. So when Tarek opens the joinery card on site, the latest set is sitting underneath it.

  5. The habit that matters

    One habit worth building: before anything gets built, check that the sheet in hand is marked current. A revision checked once costs nothing; the same check missed is the most expensive line on the job.

Open drawings Opens Taskity in your own project.

Next: The wiki — decisions that outlive the meeting →

Put it into practice.

Boards, approvals, snags and client sign-offs — one platform your team will actually use.

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