Fabrication holds a thirty-second of an inch; construction holds a looser standard, and legitimately so. A perfectly fabricated panel can fail to fit a perfectly acceptable wall, and neither party did anything wrong. The three strategies that bridge the gap, how to sequence a field dimension, what a good dimension package contains, and where the responsibility line gets drawn.
A display that sells into a national chain is designed to that chain’s vendor guide before it is designed to the brand’s render. Height caps, footprint, weight, stability, branding placement and a retailer approval step all change what gets fabricated — and the guide is the document to ask for before the first sketch.
Opening dates don’t move, so the casework schedule has to be built backward from one — through install, mount fitting, delivery, fabrication, and the approval step that is usually the longest single float. A worked back-planning template for exhibition teams.
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