Reply #17: The set I inherited from my father was made by Charvos (#877)

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and I still have it handy :)

Did you ever take pictures or keep a blueprint or two of the work you did? It'd be cool to have and look at again later. I'd have to dig through my old stuff to see if any of my drawings have survived. Most work was on oilfield applications (pipelines, refineries, etc.) But the weirdest job I had was some freelance work drawing up exploded views of nuclear washing machines (they washed radioactive clothing for that industry.)

Oh, here's a software site that sells OEM copies of the various AutoDesk products. Most are the 2011 series, though the site goes back to 2006 it looks like. I think AutoDesk dropped the sequential numbering of their product after AutoCAD-14 and went with year-numbering. They do have stand-alone AutoCAD, but that's a normal part of most of the packages, like Civil 3D. I don't know anything about AutoCAD Inventor, so it might not allow you to "load as AutoCAD" like the rest.

http://topdigitalonlineone.com/topic/19-Autodesk.html