Yes, physical construction and software construction can have some of the same communication difficulties between designers and builders.
When I worked as a CAD operator for a company which fabricated glass doors and windows, I would often receive printed drawings from architects. Soft copies were not available, as the architects considered their designs to be proprietary. But of course we the fabricators would benefit from having the design in CAD so we could produce different views and so on.
One day I received a set of drawings for a three-dimensional arrangement of glass sort of like a bay window. There were plan (overhead) and elevation (side) views, and I stared at those for a while, unable to make a coherent 3D model to match them. I then took some cardboard and cut it out in the shapes shown on the drawings. The shapes did not actually fit together--any way you tilted the pieces, there would be unworkable gaps in some part.
This was at the time when a lot of drawings were still made in 2D, with manual work to align the different views. I ended up having to visit the other firm's office, my cardboard cutouts in hand, to show them that what they had drawn could never be built.
When I worked as a CAD operator for a company which fabricated glass doors and windows, I would often receive printed drawings from architects. Soft copies were not available, as the architects considered their designs to be proprietary. But of course we the fabricators would benefit from having the design in CAD so we could produce different views and so on.
One day I received a set of drawings for a three-dimensional arrangement of glass sort of like a bay window. There were plan (overhead) and elevation (side) views, and I stared at those for a while, unable to make a coherent 3D model to match them. I then took some cardboard and cut it out in the shapes shown on the drawings. The shapes did not actually fit together--any way you tilted the pieces, there would be unworkable gaps in some part.
This was at the time when a lot of drawings were still made in 2D, with manual work to align the different views. I ended up having to visit the other firm's office, my cardboard cutouts in hand, to show them that what they had drawn could never be built.