Catchup template
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Of course had several circle and radius templates, french curves, etc. but this baby...solely used for door, window, and column symbols; key note symbols; and the "oh boy I get to use it again" solid black DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT star bullet! (Even used those funny arrow heads at my very first job...can't remember now what for :`)
Love it, Tom.
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That is a nice idea firkins, i like it a lot
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You are welcome. I'm glad to like my little diversion.
Here is a cleaned up version of the component. Removed the image and cleaned up the geometry.
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Takes me back to my drafting days....pre computer times...
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did anybody here ever draw with one of these.
anyone know what this is called?
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Oh yeah,I used to have one
(we have to do a lot of drawing in archaeology as well - and only recently it has been done digitally)But what its name of it I don't even know in Hungarian
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Dear Phil,
Isn't it used for inking in drawings done on drawing film?
By the way, am I the only one who feels he was more productive when drawing with a pencil and a T-square on film? I had a whole range of stencils for drawing metric bolts and screws etc, and never worried about drawing to micron tolerances. The tolerances were always defined by the dimensions and the drawings were considered to be 'representational'. Now I worry if a line measures 125.399 say when it should measure 125.400. Of course, now I'm hooked on 3D and spend hours on the detail when a quick line drawing would do. Perhaps it is just an age thing, but sometimes I miss the pencil on film stuff. Man was I fast!
Kind regards,
Bob -
that pen is called "ruling pen".
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The habit of drawing lines that extend beyond corners instead of joining directly comes from using ruling pens. The construction makes it difficult to place line endings accurately. In our parts ruling pens were largely superseded by first the "Graphos" pen and then the tubular "Rotring" pens in the 1960s, although a ruling pen has been part of compass sets quite recently.
I still have samples of all these in my drawer, but the thought of ever having to use them again makse me shiver. Before the computer era, once a year a Rotring, Faber-Castell etc. salesman would come to the office to demonstrate the new model of pen that would finally not clog. Bullshit.
Anssi
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...next cool tool:S.P.KOROLEV's slide rule....
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