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Re: Seeking something like "The Elements of Technical Illustration"
Subject:Re: Seeking something like "The Elements of Technical Illustration" From:"CB Casper" <knowone -at- surfy -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 07 Nov 2003 07:20:07 -0800
Susan drew things out with:
>> Many thanks to all who answered.
I couldn't agree more about Frame's tools. Arrrrggggh.
I learned Illustrator years ago, when I was doing hardware doc,
but am stuck with Frame tools now. It's like going from a
Mercedes to a Geo...no, actually, I can't think of any car that
could be that frustrating. Well, maybe a Model T, one of those
in Charlie Chaplin movies. <<
Apparently you never experienced the *joy* of using GEM Draw.
The closest comparison I can think of is the far superior
drawing tools found in Word. We produced technical drawings
for use in the shop to build hardware.
This tool was chosen by a pointy haired boss after seeing the
results of my use of MacDraw. He decided that computers were
good so therefore bought a bunch of PC's without evaluating the
drawing tools available at the time, early 80's. We were drawing
by hand at the time. Cut and paste to a form, photocopies to the
shop.
CB - who later found out that the *other* side of our company
was using Interleaf. We thought they were idiots. When we
merged we learned how stupid we were.
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