Beauty Shot – to turn customer logos and pictures into quick concept proposals. These should have a brief description of the construction and the sizes marked on the drawing, but no other detail unless specifically requested. These are for sales and not for any other purpose. They may evolve into a product spec, but the first submission is strictly a sales tool. This is – “quick and dirty”, 2 revisions and stop. If we approve more, great, but don’t spend a lot of time on these, unless specifically asked to. They have one purpose – to get the sale.
Permit Packages / UL compliance docs– These are packages with everything required for obtaining a permit (and not much else). This requires the designer to find and read the customer and site criteria, find the city ordinance, and read it. The basic package is an application form – filled out, a site map with any easements, property lines, parcel numbers, or other legal descriptions the designer can find, an attachment plan showing how the sign is attached and general construction, an electrical plan (showing the grounding, the wire, power supply, and LED details, the bushings, UL details), including title 24 calculations (A form completed, with electrical usage calculations), a “elevation” most likely the “Beauty Shot” with additional details such as PMS codes, CMYK codes, paint details. In addition, quoted and references from the sign criteria and sign ordinance calling out page numbers and sections showing how the sign qualifies for the permit. This is 100% designed to obtain the permit and to match to the customers final inspection, and not much else. It is a legal document – Cover all the legal requirements and nothing more (no vinyl windows, no additional details the city does not need, nothing for an opinionated permit clerk to ask questions about) Many of the construction and measurements details may be intentionally omitted.
Production Packages – These are packages with everything required to build the product. The Bill of Material, the files to run the CNC, the Accubend, and the Printer, and details on construction. These files need to start with the order number FIRST and then the name in the server where the Production computers can access these in an extremely obvious and simple way. Also, the PDF in ShopVox under assets in the job. The details include:
