Not sure I like the ring of that.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)

Design News, September, 2004 by Ostrander, Larry W.

I will be 66 in October and have worked as a drafter designer and engineer since 1958. I was drafted into the U.S. Army Alaska in 1961 and was a Signal Corps drafter 1962/1963. My first job was with Thomas Brother's Maps in Los Angeles, 1958. I got into CAD in 1984 and could see the hand writing on the wall with Versacad, then AutoCAD 1.25, now 20-plus years later it's AutoCAD2005. Since I don't wish to work full-time now or to fight the traffic, I choose to work mostly from home. I now teach and enjoy sharing a 46 year work experience. Most have not ever worked on the board--drafting board, that is. My greatest enjoyment was the three years I worked in CADD technical support at encad. I not only used AutoCAD, but Cadkey, Microstation, Solidworks, pro/e Catia, Viso,...

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