Friday
Alex: Forty drawings? I'll just put them all in one PDF. Easy.
Saving everyone a few clicks. In theory.
Rex's first year · Story 6
Everything for Area 2.pdf
Drawing 042 is finished, along with 39 of its friends. Alex has an idea to save everyone some clicks.
Rex's diary
Rex's diary, before this story. Week 10. Alex says he's sending the drawings over on Friday. All of them. In one go. Efficient, apparently.
One giant PDF
Monday
Dave: Where's the drainage layout? Page 17? Page 23? Page… oh, come on.
Scrolling on a tablet with cold fingers.
Wednesday
One pipe moves on Drawing 042. So a whole new 40-page PDF goes out: "Everything for Area 2 v2.pdf".
Wednesday
Dave: So what's changed?
Nobody can say. Dave and Rex play spot the difference across 40 pages, and lose.
A month later
The Clerk of Works: Can I just have Drawing 042, the one for construction?
It only exists as page 17 of something else.
The result
You could put 40 drawings in one PDF… but you'd lose control of every single one of them.
Forty drawings, one file, no control.
Find out what should travel insteadLesson 6 · Making It Together, then the same story done the right way.