Spaceships
Twelve drawings of 60s and 70s NASA spacecraft, (the site calls them "blueprints", but they're actually configuration reference drawings). If you geek out over this sort of thing like I do, you can piclick to go look at full-size versions and bask in the glorious glow of Neurotically Tiny Engineering Details.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 13:07
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I think the best part of these is that they were hand drawn. No CAD used to throw them together in an afternoon. Someone sat down and with pencil and ruler in hand whipped these things out.
I agree; the penmanship is incredible. CAD has its uses, and I used it for over ten years while I was in design. It's more efficient, more capable, and easier to coordinate and revise, but I still prefer drawing on the board. It's artistic and satisfying, not sterile and repetitive like CAD.
When I'm working up a bid on a complex project and I have the time available, I'll sometimes produce hand-drawn reference sketches. An increasing number of our clients have never actually seen anything hand-drawn before, so it often catches them by surprise.
It won't be many more years before people who know how to use triangles and French curves and templates and drafting dots are as archaic as practitioners of Gregg shorthand. It's the price of progress, I suppose, but I don't have to like it.
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