Yesteryear... Any fans?

[empip]

Of this kind of thing .... I mean the cut-away drawing, no cad, just artistic wizardry of the Tech' Illustrator.. Tony Matthews did this :-

Several TI's, including Tony M are posting at the Atlas (Autosport) Nostalgic forum... Some great imagery !

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[Shytalkz]

Yes, they are fantastic - how I wish I could draw like that

 

[Mike2007]

My mate was taught at college how do draw a bit simpler form of this, just before 3d CAD (3d Max etc) destroyed the years of talent that people had!
Another bloke I know used to airbrush artwork for book and record covers, f*ucking amazing stuff. Last I heard he needed to work in Morrisons shelf stacking to get by !!!

 

[Donkmeister]

That sort of drawing used to inspire me as a kid, and I still love them! I've got a big book of aeroplanes from the Wright Flyer onwards like that.

It always amazes me that they used to get anything built before CAD. Sure, you can design a doorhandle just fine, but what about a car or an aeroplane?

I can appreciate having teams of draftsmen to fill huge racks with drawings to cover the design, but there's no real way to check everything fits together until you actually build it!

Now you can prototype in a virtual environment and get pretty good confidence it all works before you cut metal (or hit "print" on your rapid-prototyping lithograph!)

 

[Mike2007]

That sort of drawing used to inspire me as a kid, and I still love them! I've got a big book of aeroplanes from the Wright Flyer onwards like that.

It always amazes me that they used to get anything built before CAD. Sure, you can design a doorhandle just fine, but what about a car or an aeroplane?

I can appreciate having teams of draftsmen to fill huge racks with drawings to cover the design, but there's no real way to check everything fits together until you actually build it!

Now you can prototype in a virtual environment and get pretty good confidence it all works before you cut metal (or hit "print" on your rapid-prototyping lithograph!)

I have heard they animate and "run" the new designs (jet engines etc) first to scan for flaws in construction! All the maths, stresses and strains being recorded.

 

[Donkmeister]

I have heard they animate and "run" the new designs (jet engines etc) first to scan for flaws in construction! All the maths, stresses and strains being recorded.

Amazing, isn't it? I've not got experience in designing something as ferrocious as a jet engine, but in a former job as an aeronautical engineer, we would use CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) that meant we would have a pretty good idea of what a design would do before we even thought about building wind tunnel models.

But before that... how difficult must it have been to design something like Concorde?! How does one design something purely on paper that has that level of complexity, elegance, ability to withstand those sorts of environments, without resorting to just building the whole thing out of cast iron and rock!

The engineering tool-set may have improved over the centuries but I still can't believe how the engineers of yesterday managed to accomplish so much... amazing.