Every Star Trek Blueprint in existence!?!

[Bernard Guignard]

I remember that an early version of Auto Cad came with a Constitution class sample file but the history on it escapes me. When I was studying drafting during the late 80ies the Unigraphics system we were learning about had a Constitution class sample drawing in its sample Files. I Kit bashed quite a few Franz Josephs ships and Plotted them to hard copy. only 3 copies existed One copy went to my Drafting Instuctor for his son, another went to a friend who helped me on those lunch hours and I have the third copy.

Looking at the both pictures its looks somewhat Like the Unigraphics file
Sample.

Could you get an over all view of the picture

Very nice what I can see

 

[Bernard Guignard]

I did a Quick Search on Google for Unigraphics sample drawing and look what I found I hope this helps you

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=237

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Cool article!

 

[Forbin]

I remember that an early version of Auto Cad came with a Constitution class sample file but the history on it escapes me. When I was studying drafting during the late 80ies the Unigraphics system we were learning about had a Constitution class sample drawing in its sample Files. I Kit bashed quite a few Franz Josephs ships and Plotted them to hard copy. only 3 copies existed One copy went to my Drafting Instuctor for his son, another went to a friend who helped me on those lunch hours and I have the third copy.

Looking at the both pictures its looks somewhat Like the Unigraphics file
Sample.

Could you get an over all view of the picture

Very nice what I can see

That probably explains the origin of the plotter-print of the Conny someone found when they cleaned out our CAD section here.

 

[publiusr]

That looks like FJ's saucer on the Matt Jefferies MOST super sleek secondary hull. FJ's is also teardropped but a bit shorter on his blueprint set

 

[Jag2112]

Hey everyone-

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[Kaiser]

I voted for ya and Emailed a request

 

[chrislyn]

I am sooo confused and need your help. there is so much talk about blueprints but from what I've read the focus is on blueprints that were commercially made.
Is this correct? I bought a framed blueprint (on real blueprint paper) of the NCC 1700 -3 views, made by los Alamos labs (DoD). Does anyone know why this autocad blueprint was made by them and if there are any others in existence?

 

[Bernard Guignard]

I am sooo confused and need your help. there is so much talk about blueprints but from what I've read the focus is on blueprints that were commercially made.
Is this correct? I bought a framed blueprint (on real blueprint paper) of the NCC 1700 -3 views, made by los Alamos labs (DoD). Does anyone know why this autocad blueprint was made by them and if there are any others in existence?

Chryslin
I answered this question earlier in the thread go to this link

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=237

 

[publiusr]

I voted, just to let you know.

 

[Jag2112]

Thanks all!

 

[chrislyn]

@Bernard you are AMAZING!! but i'm trying to put the pieces together. that link shows "an early version of unigraphics" do you mean autocad? was autocad an early version of unigraphics? Also, why was los Alamos labs producing these images? I have an original framed autocad blueprint of the image from the link. what do I have?

 

[B.J.]

@Bernard you are AMAZING!! but i'm trying to put the pieces together. that link shows "an early version of unigraphics" do you mean autocad? was autocad an early version of unigraphics? Also, why was los Alamos labs producing these images? I have an original framed autocad blueprint of the image from the link. what do I have?

AutoCAD and Unigraphics (now called NX) are two different CAD packages, and neither was an early version of the other. As for your framed blueprint, does it actually say "AutoCAD" on it?

 

[Bernard Guignard]

@Bernard you are AMAZING!! but i'm trying to put the pieces together. that link shows "an early version of unigraphics" do you mean autocad? was autocad an early version of unigraphics? Also, why was los Alamos labs producing these images? I have an original framed autocad blueprint of the image from the link. what do I have?

Hello Chrislyn
As BJ says Unigraphics is its own software. As the article says
the drawing file was used to to check plotters IE Very Large Printers and display screen refresh rates. We are talking the Infancy of cad here. Every plotter and Display manufacturer did things differently. So you needed to calibrate your plotter and Displays with your computer system.
I came across the Unigraphics Uss Enterprise File, while I was studying drafting this was 1987.
I was learning how to use the McAUTO Unigraphics software on the college mainframe. In order to operate the College's Unigraphics software at the time you had the following. 2 large screens one for the display, one showing the commands and sub menus. a command box where you entered your main commands, Ie Line, Circle, Box etc. A joystick with a button on top. pick points on the display screen. as well a your key board for typing in text. It was quite a Large clunky system

Under the heading FEB 1985 there is a picture showing that is very close to what I was using at the time. the college had a VAX mainframe.
http://www.plmworld.org/index.php?mo=cm&op=ld&fid=234


At lunch times I/d go down to the Unigraphics lab and Kitbash from that same file the other FJ ships as well as some SFB ones. I then plotted them out on 24 x 36 inch sheets made 3 sets One for my self one for a friend who helped me and one for the Drafting teacher for his son.

You asked about Commercial value. Well the only value would be the frame that the drawing is in. It was never a commercial item. Any one who had access to the Unigraphics software and a ploter and had that sample drawing could produce that drawing. You said yours is on actual blueprint paper. Then someone plotted it to vellum, then made a blueprint copy.
Please note that old fashion blueprints are very sensitive to light and will fade over time.

If anyone has a DXF version of this cad file and wouldn't mind sharing it I'd love to get a copy for sentiments sake

I hope this helps you

 

[B.J.]

^ I'd love to see the original UG file. I currently use NX6 at work, it would be interesting to see if it would load!

 

[chrislyn]

Hi Bernard, thanks for your very thorough explanation. I guess i'm trying to find out why this was done at los Alamos labs and why it was framed. this link shows exactly what I've got (but on blueprint paper) http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=237 as is mentioned on the unigraphics site, the image was created at los Alamos and used to test plotters. i'm waiting to hear back from a few more experts in this area but i'm thinking perhaps mine is a hard copy of the original unigraphics image. fascinating.

 

[chrislyn]

Hi BJ, thanks for the clarification. The blueprint says both "autocad/unigraphics cad/cam drawing" and "created by los Alamos laboratories" in the bottom left corner.

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Hi Chrislyn
I'd speculate that Los Alamos purchased the Unigraphics software and one of the Draftspersons who was learning the soft ware at the time decided to do some extra training time and draw out the Enterprise as its subject matter. Some of us Drafting types are huge Star Trek fans and we enjoyed Franz josephs blueprints so much that we became Draftspersons because of them.
The Unigraphics person training him might have liked the subject matter so much that they asked for a copy of the file which was used by the Unigraphics company then distributed as a sample file with each copy of Unigraphics sold.

All speculation but I bet you that this is the most logical answer that you will get. Short of tracking down the draftsperson who actually drew the computer file.

 

[chrislyn]

very possible, except the blueprint is commercially framed. I would think that someone fooling around with the software wouldn't have it commercially framed. thanks for your info though, its fascinating.

 

[chrislyn]

also worth noting, what I have is the exact item mentioned in the unigraphics link you gave me a while back http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=237 which specifically mentions los Alamos as the creator of the image. what is the likelihood that a random draftperson would create the exact image and have it commercially framed? something to ponder.