Between the Elephant’s Toes

The Rogers Pass double tracking project and the associated Mount Macdonald Tunnel was the largest engineering project undertaken in North America at the time.  The engineering and survey division at CP Rail had a major problem with construction surveys.
Survey crews had captured the original ground cross sections.  The double tracking project had been designed [...]

The epiphany occurred in the spring of 1983 when a long forgotten sales rep appeared in my office with a Victor 9000 and a license of AutoCAD 1.2.
At the time I was the Department Head of water resources at AESL (Associated Engineering) in Edmonton Alberta. I had relocated the family from the warmer but gloomy [...]

Having worked with Autodesk from the early days (AutoCAD 1.2) as a customer, developer, reseller, employee and consultant over a period of 25 years, I thought it would be interesting to share these experiences.
Between The Elephant’s Toes is a chronology of this experience. It describes my personal experiences from the early years of computer aided [...]