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Need drawing storage solution

Need drawing storage solution

Need drawing storage solution

(OP)
We are a consulting engineering firm that opens 250 new projects each year.  As a result, we have thousands upon thousands of rolled drawings we need to reference on a regular basis.

Does anyone have an elegant storage solution for a large number of plan rolls.  We dont really want to construct these from scratch...but will if someone has a neat solution.

(Scan and PDF is not an acceptable solution...we'd be printing all day long.)

RE: Need drawing storage solution

How about 3+ foot pieces of 4" PVC drain pipe, stacked like cordwood and glued together?

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Need drawing storage solution

(OP)
Thanks Mike....this may work with 9" pipe....we'll play with it.

Happy New Year

RE: Need drawing storage solution

I've used septic system pipe... thinner with metal banding to hold them together. OK for short term storage... Works well.  If you can store them flat, then assign a unique sequential number for each drawing... They are stored in numeric order and the drawings have a prescript of A, B, C, d, D, and E for the drawing size and a number starting at 00001.  This drawing number is assigned to each drawing and appears on it.  The drawing number list has project information on it and projects data can be interupted  with other project data (numbers are sequential), else a block of drawing numbers can be assigned to a project.

Dik

RE: Need drawing storage solution

Wow, those are some big plan rolls!

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

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