Plotted, Not Stirred

September 19, 2015 6:49 AM

AutoCAD drinks DWG file. Also, Engineers Guide to Drinks in DWG. via archdaily.
posted by signal (9 comments total)

How can AutoCAD drink a... Oh. Got it. It's an "eats shoots and leaves" thing.
posted by Servo5678 at 7:07 AM on September 19, 2015 [7 favorites]

I think it was legally required that that one of those posters be on the wall of every college CAD lab. At least in the early 1990's.
posted by rmd1023 at 7:17 AM on September 19, 2015

Cool.
Sadly (and oddly) the DWG file in the first link won't open in Illustrator 5. Oh well.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:27 AM on September 19, 2015

er...CS5, that is.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:21 AM on September 19, 2015

There is also the Department of Agriculture's "Cocktail Construction" technical drawing from 1974. Might it have been the inspiration for the AutoCAD test document? A lot of the symbols are the same.
posted by snuffleupagus at 8:24 AM on September 19, 2015

There's some PDFs here. (my pen plotter is broken)
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:23 AM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]

"various commenters at Flowing Data and elsewhere remember the chart being used in the 1970s by a company called Calcomp to demonstrate their pen plotter."

Kottke asks for sources.
posted by Monochrome at 11:39 AM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]

 → (my pen plotter is broken)

Mine isn't. Shall I post videos?
posted by scruss at 8:31 PM on September 19, 2015

Along these lines: I was looking for drafting symbols of people the other day for a current project and came across this: Man Throwing Up.
posted by aloiv2 at 4:05 AM on September 21, 2015