Shop drawings that satisfy design review often lack the tolerance notation and material callouts fabricators actually need, generating a cycle of clarification requests before cutting can begin.
Why Design-Review-Ready Is Not the Same as Fabrication-Ready
A shop drawing set can be complete enough to satisfy internal design review — showing correct overall geometry and general arrangement — while still omitting the specific tolerance notation, material callouts, and fabrication-specific detail a fabricator needs to proceed without further clarification.
Where This Gap Creates Delay
A fabricator receiving drawings that lack this detail must request clarification before beginning work, introducing a back-and-forth cycle that delays the start of fabrication — even though the underlying design information was, in a general sense, already complete.
What Fabrication-Ready Drawings Actually Require
Drawings ready for direct fabrication use typically need explicit tolerance notation, complete material callouts, and clear cross-referencing to any associated cut lists — detail that goes beyond what a design review process is specifically checking for.
Generating Fabrication-Ready Output Directly From the Model
After identifying the specific gap between design-review-ready and fabrication-ready drawings, DASH’s automated shop drawing extraction is a process that generates fabrication-ready output directly from the model, closing the clarification cycle that incomplete drawings otherwise create.
Consult with DASH’s team about your fabrication drawing standard.