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Figure 16-5.Making first lengthwise fold in a large print.

Engineering Aid 3 - Beginning Structural engineering guide book
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must coordinate their work efforts and cooperate with  one  another  as  one  big  team.  Most  surveying operations are performed to guide the work done by other construction crews. You must therefore work closely with other crew leaders to ensure that your  surveys  are  timely  and  do  not  delay the   overall   project.   Cooperation   with   other supervisors  will  eliminate  many  problems  that would otherwise arise when you are coordinating work  efforts.  In  effect,  you  are  merging  your  ideas and  efforts  to  make  the  project  run  smoothly. Cooperation is also essential to your success as  a  drafting  supervisor.  Consult  the  Builder  crew supervisor  on  design  problems  and  construction methods.  Spending  too  much  time  on  unnecessary details  could  delay  the  job  if  the  Builders  are awaiting the drawings to start the job. So right from the start, get into the habit of cooperating with  other  supervisors,  and  you  will  soon  gain their  respect  as  well  as  the  respect  of  your superiors  and  your  crew  members. MAINTAINING  FILES Maintaining  file  records,  or  simply  “filing,” is  one  job  an  EA  needs  to  learn  fast  and  well. When  you  are  transferred  to  a  new  unit  or command,  chances  are  good  that  you  will  be involved  in  organizing  and  keeping  track  of  a variety  of  engineering  drawings  normally  found in  the  drafting  and  reproduction  section.  Your biggest challenge in filing is to make it possible for any single drawing (sheet), as well as the record pertaining to that particular drawing, to be readily located.  Since  most  filing  cabinets  or  protected stowage  receptacles  are  limited  in  space,  you  may develop   an   ingenious   approach   to   a   highly organized  filing  system. You must keep in mind that each engineering drawing  is  commonly  identifiable  by  a  drawing number  assigned  by  the  agency  (such  as  NAV- FACENGCOM) that made the drawing. The first major  file  breakdown  for  drawings,  then,  is  a breakdown  into  separate  files  for  the  different agencies  that  have  supplied  the  drawings.  Within each agency file, the most convenient way to file drawings  and  prints  is  by  the  numerical  sequence of  drawing  numbers. Filing Original Copies Original drawings and sepia copies are filed flat-NEVER folded. For large size originals, use shallow-drawer file cabinets of the type shown in figure 16-3. Smaller size drawings are generally Figure 16-3.-Shallow-drawer cabinet for filing large original drawings, tracings, and negatives. stowed  on  edge  in  the  standard  deep-drawer-type cabinet,  as  shown  in  figure  16-4.  Each  drawer is   divided   into   compartments   by   stationary partitions,  and  in  each  compartment  there  is  a “compressor   spring”  to  keep  the  drawings  on edge  and  in  a  compressed  stack. Filing Prints and Data Prints are handled in a manner appropriate for  their  current  status.  Prints  of  drawings  for active  projects  are  generally  placed  on  STICK FILES  for  easy  reference.  Stick  files  are  either manufactured  metal  components  or  locally prepared strips of wood. Inactive prints, such as those from completed projects and some as-built drawings, are either stowed flat in shallow-drawer file  cabinets  (fig.  16-3)  or  folded  and  stowed  in the  standard  deep-drawer-type  cabinet  (fig.  16-4). Extra  sets  of  project  drawings  are  sometimes rolled  and  stowed  in  some  type  of  cylindrical plastic  or  cardboard  tube. 16-8







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