Retarded companies that put out shitty CAD drawings.

I'd been staring at some diagrams in a fireplace manufacturer's PDF manual, trying to decipher the hell out of them.  This one below takes the cake, but critically, it should have clued me into how badly their CAD drawings would be.

Let me first explain how useless this diagram is.

• Those are supposed to be metal studs, but they're drawing roughly as square, wood posts.  Can you tell which direction they're supposed to be oriented?
• What the hell do they mean that all metal studs must be on edge?  Do they mean that the flange side of studs creating the rough opening must be attached to the fireplace?
• Look at that vertical member mounted to the top of the horizontal member -- do you suppose that it was supposed to be centered, or slightly off-centered?  But wait, if there's something to attach to this vertical member, shouldn't there be a dimension?  WTF?
• Apparently, metal studs just drop directly into the finished floor.  No track.  
• This diagram shows a vertical member in between the dimension A direction, and it's just on one side.  WTF?
• Dude drew it in 3D...why?  Neither can this person visually scale things nor do they understand how to construct an axon.  Just look at those stupid legs pointed in parallel at an angle that is different to the finished floor edge.  This kind of reminds me of the people who use Microsoft Excel to draw floor plans, then demur when you request CAD files.  Dude, draw by hand if you don't have the tools to draw on the computer.

You know what really bothers me though, is that every other dimension is identified twice in their diagrams, but they do not match.  They're always either 1/16" or 1/8" off from each other.  Again, WTF?

So now, let me explain how shitty their CAD file was:

• Some idiot drew their dimensions and text on the same layer as the fireplace, and called it "Layer 1".  In other words, the default layer name.
• This person also drew the fireplace in no specific units.  It says 3", but it measures in decimals, as 0.215.  Okay, well maybe this is metric, because the company is located in British Columbia, right?  Nope.  3 / .215 = 13.9534884.  This has no metric conversion involved.
• So, scale the drawing up by 13.9534884, right?  Turns out, the measurements shown in text, do not match what is actually measured.  It was not drawn to any scale whatsoever!  So, while the 3" now measures 3", another annotated dimension shown as 48 11/16" actually measures out to 50 5/16".  WTF?
• Of course, those dimension lines don't actually point to anything.  In some cases they're roughly close to the inside face of a metal panel, and in other cases, just floating around in space.

So I gave up and came to my blog to disparage the fools who put out this crap.  Shame on you.