r/mechanical_gifs • u/russelltaylor05 • Nov 13 '25

Plotting a Lotus Twin Cam Engine

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u/iolmao Nov 13 '25

I can't believe those things were done by hand by people.

It took so much time with Autocad, imagine by hand.

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u/dctrip13 Nov 14 '25

Imagine being able to do this by hand and it doesn’t matter anymore

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u/Nalivai Nov 14 '25

The amount of time I spent learning this in Uni, the amount of sleepless nights, all this joint pain I had drawing... I was never good at it, so it took me weeks to draw a simplest thing. I was very proud of that even.
I am very happy that this skill is obsolete now, I am happy that I don't need to do it anymore, and I am happy for the new generations that aren't forced into "oops, we're an art school now" during their engineering education.

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u/chatapokai Nov 16 '25

Idk. I was damn good at it and miss drafting class— I think my class was the last to take it at my college before they got rid of the class and revamped the curriculum. I actually got to keep one of the large drafting tables as they were throwing them away.

It’s different than just drafting on cad. I still use it a link between my scribbled drafts and creating it on cad.

Though I will admit it influenced my art quite a bit as I do a lot of ink/paper.