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Re: Our Trucks Doing What They Did - Vintage Photo Thread
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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
That's how it was done until computers came along. Every part, every layout, every design study, every tool was reduced to two dimensions on paper.
After Truck Engineering was kicked out of Chevy Central Office (in the early 1980's, maybe) we were scattered to a dozen different little engineering houses throughout Southeast Michigan. If you needed to look at a drawing you first had to figure out which job shop it was located in, and then you had to hop in your car and drive over there (to Northfield, or Clawson, or Modern Engineering) and then try to find the drawing either in the cubby hole where it was kept, or in use on someone's desk or drawing table.
Now we can just pull it up from the convenience of your laptop, whether at your desk or from the comfort of your barcalounger, in 3D. Much nicer (and naturally more efficient).
K
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What kind of things did you do? Did you work for GM?
Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
Brian
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