new drawing board design .real amazing called jumbo

[woodman12]

I spoke to john about his new jumbo drawing board and asked if i could use his explanation video.
These are boards are like my one board the drawing board 6 (54x70) that can be bolted together to create very large drawing boards, on the spec sheet he shows a configuration
of 5 foot x 16 feet long thats amazing.
Its all done by a calibration template that you lay on the board joint and tell the software the board size
I have included some pictures and video to show what he has acomplished


http://youtu.be/mFPBntZzq8E

[cray-]

This is all in aid of tracing 2D paper plans?

Would be far easier to take them to a print shop and send them through a large format plan scanner, then convert to Vectors in software.

Maybe I'm biased, I'm a designer in a print shop and have access to all this gear. B/W scans are relatively cheap. We do this kind of work all the time.

[woodman12]

some simple 2d plans can be scanned and converted but what about say an airplane full size wing profile 3/8 thick aluminum or some steel parts or how about old plans with the grid pattern like attached

http://youtu.be/ZBPSzPKAu2I cutting a gasket

http://youtu.be/E-ESF97iWxQ cutting a corner shell
Some diagrams can be handed with sofware and scanners some require cad work and there are people
that do not like drawing by cad
I use llte methods but johnwlash's draw software makes it simple

[cray-]

Point taken, I was narrow minded in only considering 2D paper plans. The applications are obviously far broader.

[woodman12]

These drawing boards are really old tech,that is you can find them useually in storage.
My first original drawing board is the drawing board III by cal comp, but is john walsh's software that has brough these
back to being used.
In fact the boards are being built today for him .The 2 new boards i have are built in 2014
I am hoping that this is somehow going to go 3d in the future
I have always drawn my own diagrams and now i can digitize them and get a better use from
a vector

[cray-]

Oh yes, definitely old tech. I'm relatively young (35) but remember this kind of thing from my early days. My Dad worked as a draftsman in Product Engineering at Ford Motor Co. for decades. He started in Geelong as a fitter & turner before moving into drafting when they where still using pencil and paper. I remember going to his offices as a child when their CAD systems where just green vectors on a CRT, drawn with a light pen!

I think we borrowed a similar tablet with a tethered pen to use on our home PC for awhile. We also had an A3 Roland plotter with the interchangeable pens, something like this:

Good times....

[woodman12]

the tech is old but the boards or tablets are back in production again ,my first board a calcomp is 30-40yrs old ,the last one i received
from john walsh was built in lat 2014,and i think the jumbo oars are built in 2015
So its back but under different uses