[1] NOTE.--A. W. Robinson, M.E., Montreal, must have all credit for
these admirable rules and regulations. They bring into a single focus
the whole science and art of mechanical drawing.
There are drawing offices where from ten to nearly one hundred people
are busily employed in making new plans and sketches by the hundreds,
and where thousands of completed drawings are filed for reference or
for changes, as these are needed in the shop management.
To be introduced for the first time into such a company is a trial for
the “new man” both of nerve and manners, and a test as well of skill;
nothing helps more at such a time than an acquaintance with the rules
and routine of the office, for the old saying holds good in a drawing
office, of “doing in Rome as the Romans do.” The author of this book
has felt this strangeness in a new position and so adds the following
model-rules for the guidance of the student when first entering a
regular position in an office where many are employed and where
success depends upon a systematic ordering of the work in hand.