2 weeks ago, our local helicopter company ordered t-shirts. They wanted the technical drawing of the side-view of a Bell 212 on the t-shirt, and provided me with the photocopy of a fax to work from. I talked to the manager several times, and contacted Bell directly (also several times) trying to find the original electronic file of the drawing, to no avail.
Normally I'm pretty fast at copying drawings, but I like being very precise, and although I hate to admit it, it ended up taking me close to 4 hours to draw every line, angle and label perfectly. Business has been booming lately, so blowing that many hours on a job really put me behind.
I faxed the final copy to the manager yesterday. He phoned me up to tell me it looked great - he said he couldn't tell the difference from the drawing that he was looking at on his computer screen. "WHAT DRAWING????" "You know - the one on the disk"......
*frantically searching for the "instant graemlin" that's gotta gun in his hand* Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
If I was closer to you, Janet, I'd loan you my Robo-Grip pliers.....far more painful than a quick gunshot wound. Hypothetically speaking, of course... Love....Jill
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Wow... RoboGrip pliers... Now that's cold. Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
Doh! Janet!! I feel your pain!! That vectorizing is not one of my favorite jobs, and I've got to admit, I'm pretty anal about it too! I vectorized Cat (the tractor, not the animal) for a client, and after I was done, he said the one he has doesn't have the cab on it......grrrr
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Was it in vector format on his disk or just a jpg of what he faxed to you. You might have had to redraw it anyway. I still feel your pain though. I'll bet if you told him that redrawing the image from a crummy fax would involve 3 or more hours of labor @ $60 an hour he would have come up with the image on the disk real quick.
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