Plans against schedules
Match door, window, room, equipment, and fixture tags on the plans with the rows in the schedules. Look for tags without a row, rows without a location, and attributes that differ between them.
Drawing vs. drawing review
Make one discipline agree with itself
Review a single discipline’s plans, sections, schedules, details, and general notes together. Groundbook helps identify tags, ratings, dimensions, and references that are stated differently from one sheet to the next.
Where to focus
What to bring into the review
Details against callouts
Follow each detail callout to its destination. Identify callouts that point to a missing or superseded detail, and details that describe a different condition from the plan that references them.
General notes against the drawings
Compare design criteria, material designations, and typical requirements in the general notes with what the plans, sections, and details actually show.
Revisions and issue records
Check that clouded changes, revision numbers, and the drawing index agree, and that dependent sheets carry the latest version of a changed requirement.
Inside Groundbook
Work through the findings by discipline
Findings are organized by severity and discipline, so a structural or architectural reviewer can resolve the consistency questions within their own sheets before opening cross-discipline items.
A practical workflow
From the first pass to a decision
Set the discipline and the sheets
Upload the current issue for the discipline, choose its preset, such as Structural engineering, and state the scope in the review instructions: for example, plan tags against schedules, or details against the general notes.
Open both statements of the requirement
For each finding, view the plan, schedule row, detail, or note side by side. Confirm that both describe the same element and that neither is marked as superseded.
Decide what governs and correct the rest
Have the responsible designer confirm the intended requirement, then update every sheet that states it so the issued set carries one version.
From a published project review
The governing structural revision is unclear
This example stays within one discipline: two structural schedules in the same set carried different requirements.
Two structural schedules carried different requirements, while the set did not clearly establish which version governed or update all downstream references.
Read the findingDefine the scope with your team
This workflow reviews the relationships stated in one discipline’s drawings. It does not replace the discipline’s own design checks, calculations, or model coordination. The responsible designer decides which statement of a requirement governs.
Questions, answered
FAQs
What is a drawing-versus-drawing check?
It compares the sheets within one discipline—plans, schedules, details, sections, and general notes—for requirements that are stated more than once and do not agree, and for references that lead nowhere.
How is this different from cross-discipline coordination?
Cross-discipline review compares one consultant’s documents with another’s. This review stays inside one discipline’s set, where most tag, schedule, and callout inconsistencies originate.
Can I run it on one discipline’s drawings alone?
Yes. Upload the sheets for that discipline and choose which files to check. Add the other disciplines later when you want the coordination review as well.
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Continue your review
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ExploreReview what changed—and what depends on it
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ExploreBring your next set into focus
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