AutoCAD. Anyone?

[lil_dcb7]

Any one have any experience with autocad? My girlfriends dad wants me to start helpin around his business, I think..

is it hard?

[AG17CB7]

i took alittle of it in high school. it's not as hard as it looks

[93accordexcoupe]

Any one have any experience with autocad? My girlfriends dad wants me to start helpin around his business, I think..

is it hard?

i work with it a lot for school. once u learn it, its easy as shit. and its a pretty powerful program.

[lil_dcb7]

i work with it a lot for school. once u learn it, its easy as shit. and its a pretty powerful program.

what exactly do you do with it? i see all these models of houses and stuff. My girls dad does industrial drafting??

[93accordexcoupe]

yea industrial drafting is a lot of little mechanical parts. my cousin and my roomate are in that right now and they just did a project on designing a door handle. they used cad to draft up their door handles and all the little mechanical pieces. then they imported it into the program solidworks and had them made on a 3D modeler.

these are some of my roomates drawings from other projects, not cad but it gives u the idea of I.D.




door handle

[lil_dcb7]

So do you have to be good at physically drawing? He just does blueprint stuff for buildings..

[93accordexcoupe]

no not at all. he will probly give u sketches of parts and pieces and u will draft it up. as long as he gives u enough info and demensions of the parts u should be fine.

my cousins door handle

[jhoff]

you can do pretty much anything with it
i took it in h/s and that was 6 years ago
so i cant remember much but it does require some math skill

[jboyce]

me an some of my buddies are about to take a class for it. we do architectural sheet metal. it's used ALOT in construction.

[93accordexcoupe]

it does require some math skill

not anymore really. i just squeezed by in my math classes and i have a degree in auto cad

me an some of my buddies are about to take a class for it. we do architectural sheet metal. it's used ALOT in construction.

what do u mean by you "do architectural sheet metal"?

[jboyce]

not anymore really. i just squeezed by in my math classes and i have a degree in auto cad



what do u mean by you "do architectural sheet metal"?

by "i do architectural sheet metal" i mean, that is my job. i do this mon-fri. there isn't really any better title for it. i'm not like a carpenter or plasterer. i put metal on buildings.

[93accordexcoupe]

oh gotcha, i didnt know if you designed finishing metals or you made it.

[lokuputha]

The program is basically line drawings; albeit very complex line drawings.

Start with their tutorials; they help a lot. Since the commands are sometimes very specific, it is difficult to jump right in and start playing.

I remember making 3D drawings with AutoCAD...lol..good times. sorry Im a geek.

I just did this now...Oh how I miss it.



this is an old assignment

**warning...AutoCAD will give you numb bum...buy a comfy chair.

[93accordexcoupe]

very true^^

oh and yea the 3D drawings with 2D autocad. i went through that. axons worked well but i couldnt do a perspective drawing to save my life

[Charliehstle209]

Its a fairly easy program to learn.
I wish i was down there, i need a job...

Ive done architectural commercial and residential work for 3 years.

If he wants you to do 3D modeling with AutoCAD it will take a little time...
but if your doing 2D work its alot easier and can catch on quicker...