My grandfather was a structural steel draftsman, he designed expansionjoints for bridge decks if i remember correctly. He tells stories of when the office got a mechanical calculator, he would input the numbers into the calculator and go back to his desk, solve the equation and go back to the machine to wait for it to finish. Then he would use it to check his work. CAD came in around the time he quit, moved states, and opened a bed and breakfast with my grandmother.
Office life before the invention of AutoCAD and other drafting software.
Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares.
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