A senior drafter in Seattle called out my dimension lines and I'm still embarrassed

I had a senior guy at my last job pull me aside and say all my dimension lines were too close to the object lines. I thought I was being clean but he said it made the print look cluttered and hard to read. So I started leaving a 1/8 inch gap minimum between the object and the first dimension line. After a week of doing that my drawings got approved way faster and the redlines dropped by about half. Has anyone else had a small detail like that get called out that totally changed your workflow?

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logan29917h ago

Did you ever notice how something as small as line spacing can make or break a whole drawing? lol I had a similar thing happen with my hatch patterns back when I was starting out. A senior guy told me my hatches were way too dense and it made the print look like a mess. I loosened them up to like 1/4 inch spacing and suddenly my sections actually looked clean. It's wild how those tiny tweaks can save you so much headache later on.

rowan_hayes10h ago

@logan299 totally agree on that, same thing happened to me with crosshatching once and it was a game changer.