draughting services is the trading name of self-employed draughtsman Peter King.
A brief history...
Soon after leaving school, Peter started work for a steelwork fabrication company, spending several years in the workshop and on site, learning a trade as a fabricator/welder. He then moved into the drawing office as a trainee draughtsman. After several years gaining experience at the drawing board he decided to set up his own business. This celebrated its 25th anniversary last year in November 2007.
The early years were spent at the drawing board producing drawings by hand. By 1990 however, CAD machinery was just starting to come of age and become more affordable. Peter recalls "My first CAD station cost around £3500 and ran RoboCAD under MS DOS, frustratingly slowly. It would take an age to produce a drawing and output was on a pen plotter which was slow and noisy and the pens kept clogging up". Most projects were completed using a mixture of CAD and traditional drawing.
By the late nineties as more and more clients got up to speed with IT, creating drawings with CAD and transmitting them over the internet gradually beacame the norm. Computer hardware started to become fast and reliable enough to make the drawing board redundant. "I've been producing drawings exclusively using CAD for almost ten years now but I still can't bear to get rid of the drawing board - not just yet".