Wednesday, May 18

On Wednesday, May 18, I continued my work on preparing plans and such for the client brochures.  It seems these have taken me along time but I have encountered numerous problems with AutoCad and also CorelDraw throughout this whole process.  The problems have been primarily with CorelDraw because it has a habit of freezing and delaying because the documents being placed within, the floor plans, are large, therefore slowing it way down.  I have also struggled a bit with the layers of AutoCad and I am not sure if it is because the version I am using is older or if it is because I just haven't used AutoCad in awhile.  So becoming familiar again, seems I just need time.  Another task I worked on was updating our vendor checklist for our new neighborhood, updating all of their current information, so the client binder's process could begin.  I then took another look over the hardware specs that were worked on the day before and updated it with the information that was sent back from the vendor with proper dimensions.  I also prepared documents such as a project schedule, specs, and plan, and also some samples for a client meeting that was to be held at 4:30 p.m.  I filled paperwork, and also followed up on phone calls with vendors in regards to having accurate information in our documents.  The day ended by updating the estimation spread sheet I had been working on the day before simply by revising some of the numbers.