Friday, January 9, 2009

I am CADmonkey!!


cadmonkey - n. [kad-muhng-kee]
1. A whoring draftsman using computer aided design(drafting). "Look at that cad monkey make magic with a mouse!"

2. An employee who does nothing but CAD drafting - all day, every day - for an architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, etc. firm.

3. One who assists a computer aided drafter/deisgner in carrying out mundane and repetative cad related duties such as printing, printer maintenance, and simple text edits.

4. A low level cad person who makes edits with no regard for or knowledge of proper production methods or standards. syn.- cad hack

5. An actual monkey or ape trained to perform simple cad edits and tasks.

"A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have an CAD monkey please."

The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, "That'll be $5000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.

Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only few hundred dollars. Why did that one cost so much?"

The Shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can draw in CAD - very fast, clear layouts, no mistakes, well worth the money."

The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. "That one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?"

"Oh, that one's a Design monkey; it can design systems, layout projects, mark-up drawings, write specifications, some even calculate. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.

The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?"

The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it says it's an Engineer."