Autocad Newbie

[MBG]

I am familier with manufacturing cad sites I.E. mastercam, kubotec CAM. I have never used Autocad or even see it run. I need to learn it to get consider for employement at this company.

How can I learn it without purchasing the software.

-garrett

[Weldtutor]

MBG
Check with your local or area college. They probably offer Autocad courses.

[MBG]

thanks at the area college they offer mastercam that is what I went to school for...

[automizer]

some collages offer it as an online or corespondence class. But as for my experence I have been useing AutoCAD for over 5 years and this past year I took a MasterCAM class and I found there to be alot of common comands and they were very similar in use. If you can find a teach your self autoCAD book for a good price read that and try and find someone who will let you use a computer with autoCAD on it for an hour you might be serprised how well you know the program all ready.

[MBG]

some collages offer it as an online or corespondence class. But as for my experence I have been useing AutoCAD for over 5 years and this past year I took a MasterCAM class and I found there to be alot of common comands and they were very similar in use. If you can find a teach your self autoCAD book for a good price read that and try and find someone who will let you use a computer with autoCAD on it for an hour you might be serprised how well you know the program all ready.

really? That is very good news. Thanks a lot

[ViperTX]

Hey, I've got some questions for you AutoCAD experts. How do you write a Macro or Script where you query the user for some input....I was hoping to take a person's input on things like the dimensions of their bathroom floor and then doing various fills to show them what floor tile on a diagonal with and without a perimeter border tile looked like.

The help stuff is pretty cryptic on how to create custom fills and on how to write Macros (or scripts). Seems that most lesser CAD packages have good script examples.

Thanks,
Paul

[ger21]

Hey, I've got some questions for you AutoCAD experts. How do you write a Macro or Script where you query the user for some input....I was hoping to take a person's input on things like the dimensions of their bathroom floor and then doing various fills to show them what floor tile on a diagonal with and without a perimeter border tile looked like.

The help stuff is pretty cryptic on how to create custom fills and on how to write Macros (or scripts). Seems that most lesser CAD packages have good script examples.

Thanks,
Paul

Your right, the help file is very weak regarding scripts. It's outstanding for Autolisp or VBA (macros), though. From what I see, you can't get user input from a script. I think a script can just automate commands.

You'd want to use Autolisp, or VBA. The customization part of the help file has a lot of examples of both. If you need more info, start a new thread.

[dannyboysd89]

Try this site. It starts out pretty basic, but I think in the 3rd chapter moves on some simple 3-D work. Worth checking out.

http://we-r-here.com/cad/tutorials/index.htm

Dan Brinkman

[mxtras]

Once you get over a certain hump in ACAD, the rest is relatively intuitive. It sounds like you may already have a sizable chunk of the initial learning curve under your belt if you have been through school for any variety of CAM software.

I have seen guys pick it up in a few weeks and heard about(and read on forums about) others that just can't get over that initial hump.

It's a steep learning curve at first, but I am self-taught so I can say that it can be accomplished.

Scott