RE:RE:RE:RE:New Press Release - Almonty Provides Sangdong Mine Construction Update@ ionade and corton68, many belly laughs from me, here is a true story :
I'm well aware of what you two said, and my post has seemed to be taken slighly out of context.
I know that "Drafters" use ACAD and Inventor 3D modeling software for detail drawings and presentations/fly-throughs.
I know there are certain tools to determine a (say) conveyor belts design width, speed, pulley sizes, motor size, material tragectory and so on.
You just input the parameters of length, height, material size, weight, tonage per hours and such then hit nter.
I have used these computor tools many times, I also have a very old "Prok" idler catolouge with a cardboard slide calc feature that
Many more computor tools are there for engineering and drafting.
BUT... some engineers (not drafters) still do calcs and sketches by hand on paper to pass on to the the drafter to create an electronic detailed drawing.
I separate the two for most depending on how much they know..
In 1978 I started my first year as an appentice drafter in Mechanical Engineering with a company that specialised in coal preparation and coal washing plants.
A wooden drawing board, paper drawing sheet taped to the board,Clutch pencils, scale rulers, the first hand held calculators that could do trigonometry and Rotring ink pens were the main tools in the "bygone age" lol.
In 1983-ish I was tasked by my boss to learn the new Autocad program (automated computor drafting), I thought after reading two instuction manuals the size of telephone books it was garbage. You had to type the word "line" then type the origin "0,0" (2 D in those days only) then the end point just to draw one line on a computor screen.
We started to train others, and I could still draw by hand 15 times faster.
Shortly after that Acad developed a digitized tablet and wired push pen that was made for the Acad system, then the "Mouse" was born (skweek skweek), one rolling ball to evolve into a optical mose.
I have seen this evolution from slide-rules, mathimatical trig tables in a book, to old days calculators and have an interest in new tech still.
I have trained more drafter apprentices that I can counnt on my fingers and toes.
My drafting days ended in 2016 to care for my mother.
I'm retired since 2016 at age 56 then, but not dead or out of touch with tech at all..
Ionade ..it is interesting you mentioned you touched on the 3D things for site projects, and I have seen how acurate the LIDAR system is compered to an on site survey team using older methods.
That was long ago when it became a reality.
I think it is now acurate within 300mm or more for topography.
It can also penatrate vegitation in the jungle, like Maya to see the ground through the trees.
Magic !