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Autodesk

Thirty years of drafting — from railroad map digitization and survey heat maps to outside plant drawings and as-built acceptance.

Product lines and other names: AutoCAD

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 3 disciplines Autodesk carried, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that named this manufacturer is counted, so this is the shape of what it carried rather than of the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

AutoCAD from the earliest work on this record. The countywide wireless survey in 2001 was built in its survey tools from measured readings, because the propagation software that does it for you did not exist yet. Later, as-built drawings of access point placement were a contractual acceptance condition on the St. James wireless build.

Where it appears

Declared on each entry rather than listed here, so this page cannot drift from the work it describes. What each entry named is quoted as it stands, with how much of that project rested on it and what stands behind the claim beside it. The first of those drives the height of the surface above.

Coleman Technologies (subsequently acquired; now Presidio)

JIM King (leased to CSX RPI)