AutoCAD Blog | Autodesk: Are you new to AutoCAD, perhaps primarily a Revit or Inventor user who works in AutoCAD occasionally, or a returning user who simply hasn’t used the product in a while? The Content Experience Designers (CXD) on the AutoCAD team have recently released a new learning series titled AutoCAD Foundations.
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This article was very helpful to me. It immediately caught my eye because I am currently taking an AutoCAD class and it opens with a direct appeal to people who have been an Inventor user in the past. That is me. I have a lot of experience with Autodesk Inventor over the last six years in my middle/high school’s Engineering Design Pathway and it is my program of choice for 3D modeling parts. The user interfaces of the two programs are similar but not the same, so I end up having familiarity with the tools but not the way in which they are used. I will definitely be checking out these videos, but at the moment I also wonder if there are separate PC and Mac videos because it seems the user interfaces are slightly different between those two as well. Overall, I think it’s great that Autodesk is providing these resources for people who are learning a new interface.
I was excited to see this article in the newsfeed! I remember hearing about Vectorworks University recently and wondering if such a thing existed for AutoCAD. Though I don’t have experience with Revit or Inventor, I do have a long history with Fusion360, and when I first started using AutoCAD I was struck by how seemingly similar they were. Yet there was definitely a learning curve to adapting my previous knowledge of Fusion into AutoCAD where I can see how this learning series would have been useful. Coincidentally, I fabricated my first part completely designed in AutoCAD today (a simple design of interlocking circles cut into ⅛” ply on a laser cutter). My previous experience with fabrication was with a 3D printer, where Fusion was a great program of choice, but now that I am learning how to laser cut I am considering using AutoCAD as a 3D design software to some extent, particularly because I really enjoy geometric designs and suspect that using different colored layers in AutoCAD would be a great way to distinguish cut and engrave operations.
This is a very applicable article as I am taking AutoCAD right now along with the rest of the freshman DP class. AutoCAD has had a strong learning curve for me as I can get easily overwhelmed with how many tools and functions there are. It has gotten better as I simply spend more time with the program yet websites and assistants like this will make worlds difference. I can find myself not remembering how to do something when I learned about it recently or going about a proces and forgetting a much easier way to do it. Additionally, I am a very visual learning, watching someone do something and following along with aid helps me learn the fastest. What’s more, I appreciate that AutoDesk recognizes that their program can be daunting to use and actively tries to support their user base by putting out videos and creating these websites so that we can get as much help as we need. I will definitely be using these resources throughout the rest of the semester to help me in class.
AUTOCAD!!! This article could not have come at a better time because AutoCad is so confusing right now. Not really, but kind of. I just feel like there are so many buttons and tools and things on the app itself that it can get very confusing very quickly especially because the mac and the windows software look different as well. I feel like it is so hard to build a solid foundation in AutoCad because there are always updates and an infinite amount of different ways to access certain tools. I wonder what it would look like to watch an expert at AutoCad work because I feel like that would make AutoCad look super easy. AutoCad is definitely something that I find myself enjoying more and more as I learn and understand it more. There are definitely still some learning curves but learning AutoCad is becoming more and more enjoyable.
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