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SMadsen

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POLL :: Who has the hardest drafting job?
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2004, 03:13:08 PM »
Facilities management. Why? Cuz nothing EVER gets made as you guys draw it!
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deegeecees

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POLL :: Who has the hardest drafting job?
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2004, 03:16:30 PM »
Power Engineering/Drafting:

ComEd substation development

385,000,000 volts
150 separate substations including:
Mechanical
Structural
Architectural
Civil
and of course Electrical

So, for me and my experience, its gotta be Power Engineering/Drafting
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nivuahc

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« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2004, 03:19:05 PM »
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So, for me and my experience, its gotta be Power Engineering/Drafting


Been there, done that, stole the t-shirt.

Hated every minute of it.
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deegeecees

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POLL :: Who has the hardest drafting job?
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2004, 03:21:47 PM »
I'm not sure, did I get the amount of volts correct? My memory aint what it yousta be, but it seems like there was more... zzzzt!    ow.
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nivuahc

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POLL :: Who has the hardest drafting job?
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2004, 03:36:29 PM »
Yes, and higher.
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nivuahc

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« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2004, 03:41:37 PM »
Check out this video for reference.
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« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2004, 03:43:14 PM »
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... for me and my experience, its gotta be Power Engineering/Drafting


Nuke's the worst.  Every single drawing modification is followed with 30 or 40 pages of discussion about the change and it's impact.  The saying was, "When the weight of paper equals the weight of the unit you're half done."
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POLL :: Who has the hardest drafting job?
« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2004, 03:46:10 PM »
Try doing all of that rolled into one...
I worked for a comany once that I had to do...

structural (load carrying devices)
mechanical (hvac and utilities)
piping (hvac and plumbing)
electrical (low voltage and high voltage)
architectural (floor plans, elevations, cabinets, walls)
and...
civil (site plans and parking lots)

Try rolling that into a single set of plans done by one person and only having 24 working hours to do it. All the while the client wanting to make changes...

Never ... I repeat NEVER get into manufacturing...
The guy who makes part A decided that it didn't need to be the size on the plans so he changed it, therefore part B didn't fit so he blamed you, then part C didn't fit so he blamed you, and so on and so forth until all 100 or so parts were put together and everyone blamed you because they had to do it differently because the first guy did his like he wanted to.

I hate manufacturing drawings....
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« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2004, 04:00:30 PM »
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Never ... I repeat NEVER get into manufacturing...


That counsel is too late  .. about 35 years too late ..
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POLL :: Who has the hardest drafting job?
« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2004, 04:13:43 PM »
poor bastard
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deegeecees

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« Reply #25 on: January 06, 2004, 04:44:10 PM »
Yeah, I had to do all that with a 50 lb block of ice on my back uphill both ways AAAND, using an abacus! :P
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« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2004, 05:01:03 PM »
Mine fits into the other catergy.I'd say mechanical and electrical drafting can be tricking,as the drawings are full of interlinking lines/structures that can be easily confused and displayed incorrectly.I'm in the building services field which is a mixture of mechanical/electrical drafting.It's hard to know for sure, as most of us just dont have experiences of all of the fields out there to really comment.Yeh Keb your right about the manufacturing indusrty that can be a right bummer,all you have to do is get one line slightly out of place and a whole production line of goods can go in the bin.Bloke at my friends work did that a few times and he's no longer there.
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« Reply #27 on: January 06, 2004, 05:49:16 PM »
nivuahc,

That video was truly awsome.  Recently, I've been designing switch racks for electrical substations for our local utility.  They've got these huge blade switches where the incoming conductors attach to the bus pipes.  Is that what it looks like when they throws the switch?  Man, I can hear the explosion.

Bob G.
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« Reply #28 on: January 06, 2004, 06:41:48 PM »
Quote from: nivuahc
Check out this video for reference.

Holy cow batman............
Are they turning on or off the power?
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POLL :: Who has the hardest drafting job?
« Reply #29 on: January 07, 2004, 03:41:52 AM »
I voted "other" because it's all relative.
you can have a very simple mechanical part or a very complex mechanical part, similarly, a very simple architectural part etc etc.
Also, someone very knowledgeable and skilled may find complex items pretty simple while you or me may find them brain twisting....

I'm in production/manufacturing and my first couple of jobs were quite taxing... if you had to see the kind of work I have produce now... you'd wet yourself  :oops: , typically a dwg consists of 10 blocks (not including BoM) and takes me about 5 - 7 minutes.
I've just checked and in my three and a half years here I've done on average 1.136625514 drawings per day !!!  jeez, no wonder I'm always knackered :P
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