I’ve come to this conclusion after scanning in a bunch of drawings from my first large scan-to-file job here at work. I got Hopewell township to scan a lot of old As Built drawings to PDF file for archival purposes. I’m sure anyone who works with large engineering drawings or blueprints can relate. After they sit rolled up for so long they want to stay that way. When you have dozens in a roll together they become rather irritating to individually pull apart and scan. So after the first 350 or so I decided I am going to invent and build some kind of table to keep these things in check. I think I can scavenge 2 old drafting tables and use the ruler thingys one them to work as clamps for each side. This way its adjustable and I’d be able to pull sheets from under it without much difficulty.
Ok, this has taken me about 15 minutes to type between loading sheets…
/rant
I know exactly what you’re going through. I use 2-4 catalogs strategically placed on my drafting table to keep plans flat. Works great till you need one and the plans snap back to a roll and flop onto the floor.
Did you ever fold up & crease a big drawing and slice your finger open for about 2 feet before you realized you were doing it?
AutoCAD/Inventor/ProE > Paper
HAHA I shouldn’t be laughing because I feel your pain… It sucks… Thats why they make flat fireproof files for such things… tell those people to get up to standards 
Nah, I commend them for their choice. Instead of worrying about flat files and paper drawings, they are putting them on a disc. I’d rather have a few discs in 10 years than a dozen flat files. We have like 15 - 20 of those free standing flat files for our office and they are slowly being converted to a .pdf file 
But some of these old timers will not give up their paper drawing if their life dependant on it… :ugh2: :dunno: