Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
(OP)
I am a manufacturing engineering graduate and would like to apply as an Autocad Drafter soon (my first job). I am refreshing my autocad skills lately and there are few topics I forgot/do not understand:
1. difference of INSERT and XREF
2. what QUICK SELECT, REFEDIT and ATTRIBUTE, VIEWRES are for
1. difference of INSERT and XREF
2. what QUICK SELECT, REFEDIT and ATTRIBUTE, VIEWRES are for





RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
Quick select is the tool for selecting like objects such as all my gullies without having to select them one by one.
Refedit for editing blocks which are already inserted in your drawing, which thus changes all other like entities - very clever.
Attribute - seems to me to be the text information found within blocks which are active, but I need help here on their definition.
Viewres - to do with the definition shown on the screen - usually set low - I think 1000 out of 20000 but there is very little need to change this or even know about it, but I am now waiting for somebody to contradict me.
Cheers. Sean.
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
-Inserts stay with the drawing (inserted in the drawing itself). WHen you give another person the drawing, they have everything.
-XREFs are a drawing (2) outside the drawing (1), when you give another person the drawing(1), if they do not get the XREFed drawing(2) also, it (2) will be missing from the drawing (1)when they open it.
-Quick selct lets you pick the properties for anything you wish to make a selection set of (eg. all lines, that are blue on layer 100).
Good luck.
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
I suggest learning a 3D solid modeling CAD software.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
By the way stay away from 2D CAD its a dead duck!
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
Also, basic 2D drafting is fundamental for everything else about the CAD or engineering industry. If you don't know how to do a simple 2D drawing, how do expect to do a complicated 3D one? Also, if you are in an engineering role, you are going to need to be able to produce sketches, which would require some knowledge of how to actually draw.
I see nothing wrong with working as a drafter for a year or two before moving into an actual engineering role. It gives you a chance to learn how things go together, etc. It would also give you an advantage compared to other engineers that don't know how to draft. It's more productive for an engineer to draft up a detail in CAD once, than to draw it on paper, hand it to a drafter, have him draft it up, come back to the engineer if he has questions or it doesn't quite work the way it was sketched, go back and fix those issues, print it out, show it to the engineer... you get the point. If you have that extra bit of knowledge, it's only going to help you in the long run.
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I have seen plenty of engineers that can make a very nice 3D model, but can not create a 2D drawing.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
As for 3d being only 20% of Autodesk's sales says a lot about their software. Ever heard of SolidWorks or SolidEdge? I won't say they are better because my buddy Rich942 and I will end up highjacking this thread to have another debate. Ha,Ha!
As far as the jobs go apply for a postion in a manufacturing facility in different industries such as automotive, health care, food, etc...
What did you mean by inventory clerk? My goodness what did they teach you in school. You did take engineering science courses related to manufacturing didn't you? Other technical courses for manufacturing should have included some of the following: tool design, automation, CNC, CAD, CAD/CAM. Why do you keep selling yourself short?
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RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
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RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
Kittykat23 do or at least try to do what you enjoy most, the days will go by much quicker.
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And I mean 2d becoming dead in the mechanical part design world.
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
And don't get me wrong, 3D is certainly the future, and I can see that more so in mechanical parts.
After re-reading my posts, I think I came off with a different tone than I meant to, I apologize!
RE: Help: AUTOCAD BEGINNER
You're foolish if you're limiting your search to just the San Bernardino area. As a new engineer, you should be looking all over the country for your first job. You should expect to relocate.
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