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...design" applications, CAD/ CAM equipment enables engineers or draftsmen sitting in front of computer screens to make precise, elaborate and exquisitely detailed drawings of any piece of machinery or industrial part imaginable, without ever using rulers, compasses or any of the other traditional tools of the drafting trade. They can simply "sketch" freehand with an electronic pen right on the screen, and the computer, reaching into its memory, gives the rough shapes the precise tolerances requested, even rendering them in three dimensions, or creating solid forms...
With a $300,000 loan, for which Company President James A. Kollar had to put up personal collateral, Koltanbar bought an Applicon design system with a computer, two work terminals and a printer. Once installed, the system began to produce immediate savings. Soon draftsmen working from a designer's sketch, who previously needed 120 hours to produce a particular polished drawing, were knocking them off in a day. A major project that once would have taken 190 to 220 weeks could now be done in 80. Though the company is producing more work than ever, its number of employees...
...arrival of Applicon has not produced the sort of worker backlash that might have been expected. Adapting to the new techniques was initially difficult, but now many of the draftsmen disdain the traditional drawing board. Says Ron Hendricks, 25, a Koltanbar draftsman: "I prefer what we have now. It takes everything out of drawing that was tedious. We never have to start from scratch any more." Adds one of his co-workers happily: "Once you learn how to use the system, it's great." Koltanbar's principal customer seems to think so too. At the GMC Truck & Coach...
...joined the Army, he replied laconically, "Can't find no jobs"). Walter Cronkite, in his first reportorial appearance since retiring as anchorman of the CBS Evening News, journeyed to Moscow and brought back some Soviet TV footage never before seen in the U.S. One sequence depicted draftsmen, incongruously garbed in what looked like chefs' aprons and hats, drawing up what appeared to be missile blueprints (the Soviets refused to specify what was going on) while a piano boomed classical music in the background...
...were the three greatest draftsmen in the history of Western art? There would be room for argument at the lower end of the ranking (Dürer? Raphael? Ingres?). But of the first two there can be little doubt. One was Michelangelo; the other was Leonardo da Vinci. The bastard son of a Florentine notary, Leonardo was born in 1452 and died in 1519. Almost from the moment that he emerged from Verrocchio's workshop in the 1470s and began his long, peripatetic and disappointed life among the courts of Rome, Milan, France and his home town, Florence...