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Finding my dad's hand-drawn elevator schematics in the attic
Tbh, I was cleaning out the attic last week and found a bunch of my dad's old drawings. He was an elevator mechanic in the 80s, and his schematics were all done by hand. Now, everything is on a computer, and it's just not the same. I've been trying to redraw them digitally as a side project, and it's crazy how much detail he put in. Honestly, it makes me appreciate the craft even more.
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raymartin1mo ago
The detail he put in reminds me of how older draftsmen said precision was everything in those hand-drawn blueprints.
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knight.derek1mo ago
Modern apps make me miss that exactness raymartin mentioned.
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dakotaknight27d ago
Yeah that line about precision being everything hits hard. I mean you can see it in old engineering drawings where every single line had weight and purpose. It feels like a different kind of care compared to just zooming in on a vector file.
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