[BITList] SI units in australia

[franka]

Hugh,
When I worked as a electrical production coordinator for Austral 
Shipyard where we produced very fast Patrol boats and Ferry's, I started 
out commissioning Patrol boats and handing them over to the oz navy. 
When I got proficient at this I was given a ferry to build from scratch 
the drawings where normal construction drawing which had to be used in 
conjunction with a 3D  walk though computer program which was a complete 
mess but defended every inch of the way by the DO who would do their 
utmost to bring the job to a standstill instead of going with an as 
fitted version when their system fell over, As the time frame of these 
vessels was very tight and the penalty clauses horrendous pandering to a 
DO pet project was not an easy thing when they got it wrong yet again 
and ones budget was being blown
frank

On 6/7/2011 5:46 PM, HUGH wrote:
> John,
> My Babcock experience was pre-CAD, so it was all hand done. Kincaid 
> introduced CAD in the form of CADAM, a floppy disk run system that was 
> soon replaced by CADAM run from the mainframe.  Kvaerner Govan ran a 
> variant of that system, 1990s, then replaced it with a less 
> user-friendly system that was apparently cheaper to run.  With none of 
> these was it possible to do global changes. Nowadays, when a 3 month 
> training course can gain one the right to design ships, things may be 
> different.
> Hugh.
>
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