RE: Hey Jeff (or anyone who knows)
You' re right on the money Arthur. You' ll notice I didn' t try to disagree because I knew I wouldn' t have a leg to stand on.
I' m a civil engineer but it' s all the same. We complain about having to create designs for the crazy things that architects dream up and the contractors gripe about having to figure out how to build from our designs.
The world would be one screwed up place if contractors/machinists/etc. built everything according to plan. I had a call from a contractor not long ago; " If we put this traffic signal pole where it' s shown on the plans the store owner won' t be able to get in his front door" .
At the last place I worked we had " Mr. Ego" (common in engineering for some reason) who knew his plans were perfect and refused to take questions from the lowley contractors. So they built his bridge exactly as shown on the plans and when they were done the road sloped one way and the bridge sloped the other.