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On 8/30/2021 at 10:01 PM, Carmak said:

30 years ago when I started as a design engineer for a medical device company I would scratch build my own small concept parts in ABS plastic. In the mid nineties we got an SLA machine and my skills became obsolete (at work). 

I started working as a drafter / designer in petrochemical piping back around 1980. There was a large model shop where they actually built refineries pipe by pipe.  Instantly I wanted to do that.

Soon enough that was all done in 3D CAD!  And you learn and change. I spent the next decade setting up CAD systems for companies!

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On 8/30/2021 at 8:18 PM, webestang said:

Here is a favorite retouch I did for a lady who lost her son in Nam. 

That's a masterful job, no matter what!

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12 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

I started working as a drafter / designer in petrochemical piping back around 1980.

 

So you're pretty much saying this was your gig.

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I draw stuff in scale all day long and read architects plans and blueprints and wiring diagrams and land surveys and then someone takes that little 11x17 print I drew and makes a huge version of it.

Then, in the evening and weekends, I work in the opposite direction!  Making little versions of something that was already life size but scaled down.  The irony doesn’t escape me…

Having built models since I was young has helped me IMMEASURABLY in my career - there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t use a skill, technique or understanding that I learnt from working in scale.  Often that skill is simply ‘patience’ - but it’s surprising how much crossover there is between my real-life work and the ‘fun’ stuff

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I don't know how much this applies, but back when my friends and I all rode mountain bikes, it seems like I was always fixing a lot of everybody else's bikes whenever something would go wrong with them. The same for when we all started in rock bands. They would always give their guitars to me when something went wrong, or they had to put new strings on them. I seemed to enjoy doing the tech work. So much so that when I was in between bands, my friend's band (that I had previously left for another band) put me on as guitar tech. It was great just for the free beer alone not to mention all the girls. ??

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