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Old 06-20-2020, 08:39 AM   #349 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Mindfulness View Post


Posted this today on the gram and facebook, thought id share here
That's an unusual and very attractive arch, Mindfulness. Lots of arches are in buildings, of course, where they do an important structural job, but free-standing arches like yours are mainly decorative, so there is a lot of pressure to look nice. Here are a couple of others, though not rustic like yours:-

< Somme War Mermorial, France



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Originally Posted by Plankton View Post
Yoiks. It almost looks like scaffolding on a perpetually unfinished oil refinery. *shrug* I wonder how many hundreds of revisions there were to those drawings. lol
That's a good comparison; it never occured to me, but now I can't un-see it.

Yes a bunch of revisions, I'm sure. Back in my day, revisions were always recorded in a column above the title block, like this:-



Also, they are invariably by letter. I once worked on a project that had been running for years, and had to change a drawing that was already at revision "R", so my changes were revision "S" - and that was the furthest up the alphabet that I ever saw !
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