Is it worth it just to buy the software and follow YouTube tutorials, or just figure out on my own? I already have a job offer, I just need to learn the skill. Do I enroll in an official class? The person hiring me doesn’t care if I have a certificate or not, they just need the work done.
I'm currently considering enrollment for an online AutoCAD course, but I wanted to know if they are worth it in general. I know they give you certifications, but I wonder if those are any good for finding work.
For context, I'm a Digital Arts graduate with knowledge of 3D modeling, so I figured jumping into CAD software wouldn't be too much of a stretch. However, this also means I have no experience in any engineering field.
has anyone had this happen to their drawings? I opened a drawing, and the viewport that i set earlier this month, shifted 2211399.7668 away. but another vp on the same page is correct. i fix it, purge, audit, save and close. but when i just opened it, it did it again. im about to flip a table. why?
I'm 30 years old and looking to change fields. I have an associates degree in gen ed. I did a little bit of CAD work in high school/college and I think I'd enjoy pursuing a career in it. I'm leaning the architecture route, but I'm open to that changing.
My local community college offers an associates degree program in architectural engineering technology, and they also have an AUTOCAD certification that's only supposed to take 6 months to complete.
For someone with little to no experience looking to break into the field at 30, what would be your recommendation? Would getting the certification and then building a small portfolio be enough to get me in the door somewhere?
Thanks!
Just wondering if y'all have been encountering licensing error more common as of recent? Resuming from sleep or hibernation always seems to mess with the licensing software somehow.
I have a question as someone who's new to annotative objects.
See the screenshot at this link of an annotative multileader that I've placed in my drawing in model space. It has two annotative scales: 1/4" = 1'-0" and 1" = 1'-0". At the moment, I'm working on the drawing at the 1/4" scale.
If I adjust the leader's landing location or the locations of the leaders, it only moves it at the current scale that I'm working in. The other scale stays where it is. I could see how sometimes you would want that so you can move the leaders separately at different scales, but what if you want them to align? Is there some way to move the leader arrowhead points or landing points together?
What's the best practice for managing these? It seems like if I want to move the bubble head of my annotation, I should use the MOVE command to move the entire multileader. That way the different scales stay together.
Do people just get used to the objects being in different locations sometimes? If I delete the 1" scale and then recreate it, will the 1" scale be reset to the 1/4" scale location?
If you have been applying lately to ANY jobs, you know the market is completely wrecked. If you know any companies hiring remote positions all around the U.S., please list them here for us all! No gatekeeping :)
Looking for an entry to mid level position. I have 4 years of college using CAD and a year at a drafting firm.
I had to re-load my CAD software and I've lost access to the lisp routine I was using to draw insulation.
The routine was insulbattpoly.lsp written by someone called Kent Cooper? It used to be available on Cadalyst, but it seems to have disappeared.
Does anyone have it?
I am using AutoCAD Electrical 2024. This happens every time I click out of a multiline text box.
I'm working on a program to resolve all the headaches I have with Sheet Set Manager, just curious what other people would like it to do or things they've noticed to be a pain.
Currently this is what I have:
SHEETSORT — bulk renumber and rename sheets with prefix/start/increment/skip options, per-subset prefixes, pad numbers (1→01), edit titles inline, CSV export/import for bulk editing in Excel, and optionally rename the layout tabs in the DWGs to match the sheet number
PAGESETUPAPPLY — pick a named page setup from any DWG and blast it across every sheet in your set in one click
Hi! Im sorry if im not explaining myself well, it was also kinda hard to understand what the task was.
I was asked to make a block where, when another block (from other archive) is placed on top of it, the part underneath the front block disappears. The problem is that i cannot make the Hatch/Wipeout inside the blocks from the other file. It has to be on the block that is behind them. I was thinking to make a new layer with a hatch hiding them but the other blocks have different measures so i cant do all the possible combinations.
If someone can help me on this ill be grateful.