Found out the hard way that my layer settings were wrong for 6 months

Was working on a set of construction drawings for a 12 unit apartment complex in Portland. Kept getting weird hatch patterns that wouldn't print right. Tried everything - reinstalling drivers, messing with plot styles, even swapped computers. Finally my coworker looked at my screen for 2 seconds and pointed out I had been drawing everything on the defpoints layer by accident. Felt like an idiot but at least the prints are clean now. Anyone else got a dumb setting mistake that cost them hours?

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thomasshah15h ago

defpoints is annoying but not 6 months bad.

the_laura14h ago

Defpoints is the worst. Grabbed a coworker's template once and spent a week wondering why half my lines vanished in the plot preview. Turns out the entire template was built on layer 0 with everything set to defpoints. Had to redo every single wall.