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I'd agree w/ that. I've worked as a draftsman and self taught mech-tech for 6 yrs, the first 4.5 of which we used AutoCad. In the last 1.5 yrs we've moved more to solidworks, and I can say after understanding the simple basics of sketch driven modeling, it became very easy. It was also said at my courses that a person w/out AutoCad experiance learns S-works that much faster, as you don't have 2-D thinking holding you back. One of the beauties of Parametric solids is the fact that you can go back through a list of 'features' [ things that you've added to the model to creat it's features ie: a bolt pattern on a flange, etc] and change the model instead of erasing it and re-drawing it. Without understanding 3-d modeling its hard to understand its capabilites. I'd be glad to dicuss them w/ others if some have questions or if your curious as to the possiblities of what 3-d can do for you.[Offline most likely as this is getting off topic] Go to www.solidworks.com and then look at
the webcasts [ you'll have to create a login ID and password] you can watch archived video's of this software and see what it's capable of, and how simple it is.
Now Climbing down off my soap box
Jarrett Johnson
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The solid
modeling programs (like SolidWorks, Inventor, ProEngineer) are much
easier to learn than AutoCAD.
At 08:22 AM 4/12/2005, you wrote:
I've been using AutoCAD in one
configuration or another for the last 15 years or so. I agree
wholeheartedly that it's a bitch coming out of the gate, but once you're
rolling you wonder how you ever got along without it. Learning the
keystroke shortcuts is paramount (IMHO) to getting efficient with it...
having come through the pre-DOS days into the current point & click
universe had to help a lot with that aspect of it for me. I don't
remember the name of the book or author that helped me climb the ladder
to Acad 6 or 7, but it utilized a specific project to step you through
the learning curve by starting out with fundamentals and working up to
the completed drawing. I have to believe that there are still
self-help books out there that take a similar approach and are worth
their weight in gold. Good luck with it.
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