The seven-step method
The method has seven steps: identify the file, read the unit, read the elements, tie each dimension to its owner, check AFS limits, coordinate, and record the packet.
Each step has one question: what is it, in what unit, what does it say, whose number is it, can AFS make it, what touches it, and who can check it?
Seven steps top to bottom, lettered A to G: identify the file by its contents, read the unit and schema, read each element and its property sets, tie every dimension to its owner, check AFS limits, coordinate, record the packet. A Revit file branches off step A to an export request; a profile over a limit branches off step E to AFS shop review. AFS confirms every profile before fabrication.
- A
- Identify the file by its contents
- B
- Read the unit and the schema
- C
- Read each element and its property sets
- D
- Tie every dimension to its owner
- E
- Check AFS limits: girth, piece length, hem
- F
- Coordinate: clash, clearance and questions
- G
- Record the packet
Sources
- AFS model and CAD reading: IFC elements and property sets, dimensions and notes tied to the element they describe, and unstated items recorded as not specified - Architectural Flashing Supply
- AFS drawing upload: each file identified by its contents, the formats it reads, and what to export when a file cannot be read - Architectural Flashing Supply