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--- Lu Abel  wrote:

Don't recognize that title offhand, but wasn't he the one who invented
the French Curve (hopefully that remark doesn't date me even further...
;-))?

Woof!

--
GregR




> Hey, I actually had a question that drove me to dig out my copy of
> French's "Engineering Drawing"   You old dogs remember that classic
> text?   Think I've actually got two copies from various vintages.
>
> Lu Abel
>
> Greg R. wrote:
> > --- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I resemble that remark!  Sadly, when I took the class that covered
>
> >> drafting, I was in the very last class that did manual drafting.
> >>
> >
> > Glad to know that at least a few of us actually know what that is -
> > much like CelNav it's really becoming a dying art these days.
> >
> >
> >> I have  never even  used a CAD program.  That was back in 1994.
> >>
> >
> > As one "old dog" to another, you really ought to try it sometime
> > (personally, I'm doing a lot of stuff on a computer these days that
> was
> > done manually before - audio/video editing, CAD, etc. - and of
> course
> > CelNav), and really wouldn't want to go back to the "bad old days"
> > before computers. If the "instant gratification" lure doesn't get
> you
> > (and the ability to play "what if" in real time), the "Undo"
> function
> > just might do it.  :-)
> >
> > --
> > GregR
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> And for those on the list who might be too young to know what that
>
> >> is,
> >> that was one way that we did mechanical drawing back in the bad
> old
> >> days before CAD programs. :-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> GregR
> >>
> >> Greg,
> >>
> >> I resemble that remark!  Sadly, when I took the class that covered
>
> >> drafting,
> >> I was in the very last class that did manual drafting.  I have
> never
> >> even
> >> used a CAD program.  That was back in 1994.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >
>
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> >
> >
> >
> > >
> >
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> >
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