Anyone ever mess with CAD?

[GaryE30]

I have taken CADD (Computer Aided Drawing & Design) for two years now. First year was the boring, learning everything about it and 2D drawings. This year we built 3D houses and designed paper planes that could fly the length of a high school basketball court. On my free time in class, this is what I work on. Note: Neither of these are completely finished. They are just what I have now and am currently working on. Comments welcome, and any tips are appreciated. Enjoy.

[GaryE30]

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-Gary

[Jordan]

I guess you could say i dabble with CAD a little. :nice:

[GaryE30]

:bow: INCREDIBLE! I guess I have a lot of work ahead of me. Haha

-Gary

[MattM20]

damn jordan :shock: how long have you been using it?

i'm taking a first year course in autocad and it's really boring and basic 2d stuff so far

[Jordan]

I've been working in Autodesk Inventor for about 3 years. I started back in R2, and I've moved up to R5.3 for now.

I took a brief class in highschool that introduced me to the software. Needless to say after about a week the class bored the crap out of me (working at the same pace as others in the class) I talked with the teacher, and he allowed me a copy of the program to take home where I advanced on my own time.

I have about 2 weeks total class/book time on this software, 90% of that being 2D stuff. I've been told I have a well above average mechanical / 3D mind.

[GaryE30]

Are you currently working on anything? And if you could, tell me how to make fender flares on my e30 m3 that I pictured above. Some how I cannot make it a solid by doing that. TIA.

[Jordan]

Use a sweep that follows a 3d sketch, rather then a extruded solid.

Thats how I would do it anyways, I dont have any expience with the software you are using.

[GaryE30]

Alright, I'll see what I can do. Thanks

[TIATO]

Back in 1987 I used autocad - can you say BASIC stuff.

Then moved into Autodesks's Gerneric CAD (autocad, but really de-contentet, but hey for $99 what does one expect) software sometime in early 1991 and used it through 1994 to create basic dimensional drawings for product catalogs.

Four years of old school drafting in high school and my writing has never been the same. I graduated in 1988.

[AndrewBird]

I can do 2D stuff using AutoCAD and can adjust myself to just about any program if given time. Later this year I am taking a second class in CAD. And Jordan, I agree, I was the same way with being ahead of the class. I was most of the time done before anyone else even started.

Andrew

[rs4pro3]

I'm doing an 2 year Associates degree in Cad-Cam right now. I'm in my thrid Auto cad class. We just started 3-d last week and are just starting surface modeling. You can draw anything in Autocad. If you ahd the time you can draw the E30 and make it look like the real deal but you'd need lot's of measurments. I haven't worked with Inventor yet but we have the soft ware at shcool and I'm required to take one class in either solid works, Inventor or Mechanical design. So I'll probally go with Inventor.