Although I was still checking in from time to time, I have been enjoying a 6 week sabbatical. Now I am just trying to get back into waking up early, commuting, and booting up my work laptop for the first time in weeks.
My views last week in Washington then Pickathon music festival. It was a sweet way to wrap up 6 weeks off and to return refreshed and ready to hit the ground running.
Just finished my first official meeting since coming back to work and was able to remember how to use my phone headset. I was welcomed back with a $95 parking ticket in the “Autodesk Load & Unloading Zone”. Sheesh, we were told to park there to take things into the building since there is no provided parking at the office.
Cheers, Shaan
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Well if you were loading unloading what’s the problem. Shouldn’t have gotten a ticket.
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Interesting pictures, albeit much older than when I started in 1967 with an Architectural/Engineering firm. Manual drafting was just coming into its own. I started with mechanical drafting pens with pencil leads of different hardness. Harder leads for finer lines and softer leads for heavy lines. Floor plans were traced from prints of architectural floor plans printed in reverse so the floor plans could be traced on the back of the mechanical drawings. We progressed to ink on velum and then ink on mylar, culminating with a pin register system to create mylar sepia originals for blue printing. We even went as far as doing a large project at 1/4 scale and then photographically reducing it to 1/8 scale for tendering and construction. Every automatic fire sprinkler project included an isometric drawing of the complete sprinkler system. With advent of AutoCAD, the quality of the drafting went down and unfortunately the little added touches to the drawings were lost.
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Thank you Dave fit the trip down memory lane.
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Steve,
Apparently I needed to be in a marked commercial van in the new signs the city put up in our loading area. 🙁
Well if you were loading unloading what’s the problem. Shouldn’t have gotten a ticket.
Interesting pictures, albeit much older than when I started in 1967 with an Architectural/Engineering firm. Manual drafting was just coming into its own. I started with mechanical drafting pens with pencil leads of different hardness. Harder leads for finer lines and softer leads for heavy lines. Floor plans were traced from prints of architectural floor plans printed in reverse so the floor plans could be traced on the back of the mechanical drawings. We progressed to ink on velum and then ink on mylar, culminating with a pin register system to create mylar sepia originals for blue printing. We even went as far as doing a large project at 1/4 scale and then photographically reducing it to 1/8 scale for tendering and construction. Every automatic fire sprinkler project included an isometric drawing of the complete sprinkler system. With advent of AutoCAD, the quality of the drafting went down and unfortunately the little added touches to the drawings were lost.
Thank you Dave fit the trip down memory lane.
Steve,
Apparently I needed to be in a marked commercial van in the new signs the city put up in our loading area. 🙁