MORE random pics......

[widgeon13]

Yeah, I recognize her!

[GH85Carrera]

Someone did a stupid Photoshop job. No way can you see stars in the middle of the day.

[Don Plumley]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Someone did a stupid Photoshop job. No way can you see stars in the middle of the day.

Did you mean to put that in green text?

[GH85Carrera]

Nope, the stars are not visible when they were standing on the moon in the sun. No more than you can see a star here on Earth in the middle of the day.

Look at any of the NASA photos. No stars are visible.

[Don Plumley]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Nope, the stars are not visible when they were standing on the moon in the sun. No more than you can see a star here on Earth in the middle of the day.

Look at any of the NASA photos. No stars are visible.

You are correct - I was somehow confusing "stars" with black background in my mind. I did some searching and apparently there are so difficult to see that photographs don't pick them up. Mea Culpa.

[GH85Carrera]

[sammyg2]

I was just looking at a blueprint of a machine my shop is repairing (yes, a real blue print).

I checked the date, the print is almost exactly 1 year older than I am.
All done by hand, no 'puters, by a real drafting artist.

[masraum]

Very cool, what's really impressive to me is that the text was also done by hand. I assume the line drawing was done with the aid of a rulers, guides, etc. To do the text and have it come out looking like it came out of a printing press is pretty amazing.

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I was just looking at a blueprint of a machine my shop is repairing (yes, a real blue print).

I checked the date, the print is almost exactly 1 year older than I am.
All done by hand, no 'puters, by a real drafting artist.

^^Pretty cool!

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[sammyg2]

It's a 4 stage hydrogen barrel compressor, spins at 8200 rpm, weighs 53,000 lubs, 5000 hp electric motor makes it go roundy round.
Neat stuff.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I was just looking at a blueprint of a machine my shop is repairing (yes, a real blue print).

I checked the date, the print is almost exactly 1 year older than I am.
All done by hand, no 'puters, by a real drafting artist.

I feel so fortunate that my father taught me drafting. I have all his old drafting tools and table. It amazes me that there are still architects out there who refuse to use CAD.

[jorian]

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I was just looking at a blueprint of a machine my shop is repairing (yes, a real blue print).

I checked the date, the print is almost exactly 1 year older than I am.
All done by hand, no 'puters, by a real drafting artist.

I wish I could show you some of my drawings from early in my career. All done "on the board", by hand, on vellum. Our drafting tolerance was +/-.030" from nominal, and the dimensionally stable copies of our vellums were meant to be scaled by the shops who were producing what we were cooking up. We only dimensioned where tolerances were tighter, or for some other special reason. We used lettering guides to ensure uniformity of the text and whatnot. By the time we sat down at the drafting board, we really had to know and understand what we were about to capture for posterity on our drawings. I first started using CAD in the mid '80's (CATIA V2R2), and now use CATIA V5 and ENOVIA. I still have a big old green topped drafting table in my cube, though, since every now and then we have to go out and fix an old airplane, and I get to whip out those old vellums. Me and my equally old fart partner are the only two in our group who still do this stuff.

Oh well, 'nuff of that. Random pic:

[URY914]

[URY914]

[Baz]

I took drafting class in high school. Then during my last year in college in our Residential Landscape Design class we went through further training on how to draw scaled design plans. It wasn't super extensive but my professor at the time (Dr. Bill Barrick) is now the Executive Director of Bellingrath Gardens in Alabama.) and he know his stuff and I still have all the drawings from that class complete with his hand written notations on them. I was never really good at lettering though. Just never got the knack of it. Here's a very rough design plan I did for a client about 10 years ago. I have done many many sketches and drawings but I prefer to do the actual work itself instead of the drafting part.



I never looked into CAD because I don't specialize in doing plans as much as just doing the work itself. One day when I slow up doing the actual work, I may look into it.

[URY914]

[F150 FX4]

Originally Posted by Jerome74911S

Now, naturally, everybody is looking at it.

The warning wasn't for stupid people.

[widebody911]