AutoCAD Blog | Autodesk: I’ve heard that the best chess players see the game differently than novices. They tend to see the whole picture instead of individual pieces. They see how they all work together and how an individual move translates into the next state of the game.
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Working with AutoCAD often feels like a Choose Your Own Adventure system. There are fifty ways to achieve any given task in a drafting sheet. Like the command line? Go for it! More into graphic user interfaces? Awesome! In order to be more efficient, finding the right workflow is critical! Just because there is a different way of doing things doesn't mean it is better. However, knowing that other methods exist is half the battle to perfecting one's workflow. By noticing drawing patterns in advance and then applying the proper technique for that pattern, you can get your task done as quickly as possible. Knowing the difference between dimensioning in continuous, staggered, baseline, and ordinate modes can save you a large headache. As the author writes, "It takes practice and concentration, but learning to analyze your drawing as you work and considering what you’re going to do a few commands in advance just may earn you the title of AutoCAD Grand master."
I may have to start looking for articles like these more and more as I go through my comment searches. These two tool seem to be great options for speeding up the work I’m preforming and as a new user to AutoCAD I really appreciate any options that allow me to do my work faster. I’m now in the position that I feel as if I’m fairly functional in the program now and navigating the basic features but I get continually frustrated because I feel as if I should be moving faster in the program than I am currently. Alas I think the speed will come with practice and more experience working with the program but it does feel as if I’m falling behind where I feel I should be. That is what makes articles like this so beneficial it gives me some quick skills to try and implement into my drafting while I’m still learning and can hopefully evolve into a very efficient drafter.
My struggle with AutoCAD has been long and complicated this past week. Not only through the installation process – which is still an issue – but I’m a very hands-on person, so switching from drawing on paper to the computer has been an almost unwelcome challenge.
After stumbling through my first two CAD assignments earlier today, I realize that this is going to be even more of an adjustment than I expected, so finding this article is a bit of a light at the end of today’s tunnel.
I think that features like Fast Select and Quick Dimension will be very useful once I get the hang of the more rudimentary functions of the program – like having a line go where the heck I actually want it to – and will definitely be handy once we are actually drafting in CAD. For now however, I just need to spend more time with the program and get comfortable with how it’s laid out and what does what before I start getting fancy with shortcuts.
Initially, I clicked on this article because we are taking AutoCAD this semester, and I wanted to know more about it. I like this article because I didn’t feel confused while reading it. The way the article is written is in a very relaxed manner where it makes the reader feel like it's just a one on one conversation. In the beginning of the article, the author begins why explaining his interpretation of AutoCAD, or rather how to monorover it. He compared it to chess in the sense where a good chess player will look at his task as one thing instead of many things. Basically, he said that here the strategy is to view everything as big picture and not small little parts. Describing CAD like this made me feel a little better about understanding it because normally details and small things is everything that you have to worry about when hand drafting so I assumed the same would stand for CAD, but according to this article that’s not the case.
Autocad seems to always be hiding things from me and I love this blot posts that those like it that remind me or show me something I'd never known or just simply forgotten. This post is a perfect example of that. Quick dim is something that I used to use all of the time when I first discovered it I used to love the ability to quickly reference and dimension entire units and pieces. For me this was especially helpful as I was able to reference different computer draftings while on the floor. In my highschool shop in particular my TD was horrible at printing all the draftings just period and even worse at dimensioning them properly for certain things so often we would need to quickly go back into the office and quickly get dimensions that we needed. The auto select tool on the other hand is something that I had never heard of and didn’t know anything about before reading this article but defentiyl has some features that I’ll be looking forward to using in the future.
I’ve only had little bits of experience with AutoCAD in high school, and just recently as well with the CAD assignments, trying to re-learn some of the commands and tools I used to know. I’ve always worked a lot with pencil and paper, so hand drafting came fairly easily to me. Computer programs aren’t quite as natural to work with, but over the last couple years I’d been working more with digital drawing programs like photoshop, and I’ve had some time playing around with illustrator/sketchup, AutoCAD isn’t crazy frustrating or scary. I think the tools that are explained in the article will become pretty useful later when I’m trying to work on more complicated draftings. They also explained each of the functions in a clear and straightforward manner. I’m definitely going to be looking through more of this blog for more tips and tricks about the program, and hopefully it’ll help me to become pretty proficient in it.
This is a really cool article. It gives you just a couple of tips every week and something like this can be so helpful. While you may not actually use the tips or need them, they can aid in improving time efficiency or just give you some general knowledge you weren’t already aware about. The short tricks that it teaches can just become background knowledge if nothing else; knowledge in this case would be where you may not use something often but when you have to do something you remember the trick and use it. This may save you a few minutes of trying to figure out how to do something and instead, taking that trick you saw a few weeks ago and actually using it. A simple few minutes were saved and a lot of frustration. This is a cool thing that more people should do in general. It can range from anything like cooking to technical things like coding.
This article provides interesting tips and tricks for AutoCAD. As someone who has used AutoCAD before, this is a helpful article for people who are very new to the program, as is likely the goal. These tools can help to speed up one's workflow and to make drafting even faster. Personally, I prefer digital workflows to that of physical ones, which seems to be in contrast to many of my classmates. Initially, my experience with technical theatre began with a very old digital video production workflow, and this year has been remarkably analog. So it is nice to return to an ecosystem which feels far more familiar to that of hand-drafting. I think that a program like AutoCAD is also much more versatile in the fact that you are not as much limited by physical space and materials. In some ways, even though there’s no license fee for hand drafting, CAD software might actually be cheaper in the long run, especially with student discounts.
This article taught me some very useful tips on how to use AutoCAD, however still has not solved my difficulty with the program. I need to mess around in it, to get a feel for how it thinks. One of the important things is to just practice, but one must also practice using quick commands to be the most effective drafter. This conundrum between not remembering the commands plus not being able to practice with them is what is most difficult in the program. Luckily, the commands in AutoCAD are mostly linked with the actual term used. I find it interesting how people master these programs so well. To make a program second nature requires lots of experience and practice. I personally gain a lot of satisfaction from drafting by hand, however in extremely tedious parts, I do sometimes wish to use a program. I will save this page for future reference.
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