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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
Life before AutoCAD  The office I worked in early on was an engineering department at a municipality, about 1/3 this size. Smoking was allowed and we had 2 guys who smoked cheap cigars. It was horrible but that's the way it was.
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I did similar, internship working at a small materials handling engineering design consultants maybe 10 -15 people.
Even the principal worked on a drawing board, preparing accurate design layouts and calculations, which were all hand done with the aid of a HP calculator maybe.
The inertern or junior engineers would then check the design calculations against the design codes etc. as well learn how to draw. That's the way we learnt our trade, that was mid to late '70s plus plenty of smoke stains on the ceilings.
Now it's a lot, lot different and the drafting tools, engineering software available are at a whole different level.
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Peter Kaufmann
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