QUOTE (TWest @ Mar 4 2010, 01:28)
I have run into this on occasion with the drawings, and it will absolutely stop me if I don't feel confident in what I am putting down on the drawing.
And, I thought it was just me ... didn't realize it could be a global principal of the art form ...
Tom West
We're all in this together, Tom! I had two problems on my last illustrating work. There was an area inside the cylinder head of the Ferrari 049 engine, around the exhaust tract, an area obviously impossible to photograph, and the engineering drawings that I had didn't make much sense. Essentially, I had an area on the drawing about 2" square that was almost blank. I scanned the part of my working drawing that concerned me, e-mailed it to the Ferrari drawing office and waited for a reply. "That is OK, that is exactly how it looks!" or words to that effect. Now, it could be that everyone was too busy to give any time to my problems, or the person asked to deal with it couldn't 'read' my drawing, or it was a sensitive area, or, as sometimes happens, people who are intimate with something fail to see that there is a problem for anyone else - they visualise what they know to be there, and think it
is! Eventually I managed to fill the blank with what I thought should be there, I'm still not sure it is totally accurate.
The other was a stepper motor (I think!) driving the gear-change barrel. The drawings just indicated a small, featurless cylinder. I tried e-mail but was getting nowhere, so I phoned the factory and to my delight and mild surprise was almost immediately talking to Rory Byrne. He seemed mystified by my question, which was basically - what does it look like? "It's just a small steel cylinder. It is steel-coloured!" Shortly afterwards an e-mail arrived with a photograph of the said unit. It
was basically a small cylindrical object, but had several bands of colour, 'tints' of steel, two sections of a slightly smaller diameter and, deep joy, a length of pale blue cable with lettering on it, secured to the motor with crude blobs of some sort of glossy dark-blue adhesive! I am not criticizing Mr B, all he was interested in was did it do the job, was it dependable and was it as light as it could be?
Compared to these minor niggles, lacking fundamental design information means we are all stymied.
Edited to say - Where is Marc? Been a bit quiet lately... I just managed to avoid the biggie - If you get my drift!
He varies the placement of his signature a lot as well, it becomes a 'tyre track' with the DB 750!
