A bit of pre-AutoCAD drafting history

[zars]

AC.....I was expecting to see everything made out of stone.

LOL now you're gonna tell me that the cavemen made their drawings with these tools

[ReMark]

I have a chisel, mallet and a slab of granite. God forbid you make a mistake! All that fine stonework gone to waste. Bummer.

[yedan]

i have some of my old rotering pens and pencils somewhere also have a hole template, letter templates and a srew thread and head template, bows compass and of course the old eraser shield

[Geoffers]

the reason we wrinklies keep all this old equipment might just be that although we revel in the high tech stuff, if and when the electricity fails (and it could, see recent events in NO and west of England ) we can bring them out again and the world will be saved! - by us crusty old heroes.

get back to sleep grandad

[Alan Cullen]

the reason we wrinklies keep all this old equipment might just be that although we revel in the high tech stuff, if and when the electricity fails (and it could, see recent events in NO and west of England ) we can bring them out again and the world will be saved! - by us crusty old heroes.

get back to sleep grandad

I'm exempt from returning to the bad old days of manual drafting......no drawing board......just a desk and side table......so when the power goes off, I just sit around and wait for it to come back on.

[dbroada]

I've even forgotten which end of the pencil you hold. And I'm no longer allowed near razor blades.

[Alan Cullen]

I've even forgotten which end of the pencil you hold. And I'm no longer allowed near razor blades.

Can you still buy razor blades ????

I remember we used them for scratching out way back when......I kept getting too excited with them and breaking them.....and cutting my fingers......then I would end up with blood on the drawing.....which I then had to scratch off.......

[dbroada]

I don't think a bic disposable would be too good at removing ink from tracing paper would it.

Of course, now we are used to CAD everything would be right first time!




Which reminds me of some of the early stories about CAD. The users were so proud about how easy it was to change things they found they never completed any jobs. The boss would keep moving things "a little bit to the right" etc. Us on the board would just say "sure - what's the budget".

[Geoffers]

i could cope with razor blades, it was the erasing machine defeated me, allways ended up with holes in the tracing sheet, much too fierce (the machine, not me).

my first job at GLC (Greater London Council for you young 'uns) was keeping up to date the 'gold-backs' presentation scheme drawings of a big building opposite Madame Tusaudes (wrong spelling i know). it seems these were lines of real gold deposited on the reverse of the tracing sheet. its the only time i met this process and never learned why it was used. possibly because the lines were 'on' the surface and easily removed; not ink soaked into the fabric ofthe paper?

i told you before grandad Geoffers - get back to sleep, or work

[Alan Cullen]

With me it was always, "sure.....come back next week and we'll see how I'm going"......

We've actually got an Engineer at the moment who knows how easy it is to change things now....so he is forever changing things to suit how he wants it all.......but I don't cop him that much.....

I once told him I was not a tracer......and if he wanted the drafting done to how he wanted it, then he'd better get a tracer.......

I also told him not to tell me how to design to suit what he wanted.......either he designed it and used his tracer to draw it....or he accepted my design and presentation......at the moment I'm winning......