Any CAD users here?

[pfahls1]

I'm a CAD Admin for a medical company. I've been using PTC's Pro/Engineer for 11 years. Prior to that, I designed armored vehicles and security doors using AutoCad.

How about you guy's?

[nando]

Autocad/Prosteel. Just over 3 years now. I do big, ugly, industrial type stuff.

[b*saint]

Autocad since 2002.

[Sagaris]

Autocad since 1999
Autodesk Inventor since 2001
Microstation since 2007
Solidworks since 2007

I prefer Autodesk Inventor for 3D modeling
I dont like Microstation much luckily I dont have to use it anymore

Im learning Ansys right now for FEA. much harder than Solidworks or Inventor

[b*saint]

My 3d modeling in acad '02 is so point to point.

[nando]

it's funny because even though I do 3D modeling withing the framework of Autocad, it doesn't do any of the modeling itselt (thankfuly, Acad is terrible at 3D). Prosteel handles everything. I don't even use any Autocad commands, except the occasional construction line..

[blefevre]

I've learned most of them but I currently use Autodesk Inventor for our mechanical designs. Ultra-high vacuum systems.

[Syncro325is]

Rhinoceros 4? I'm not so thrilled about it, I'd like to learn solidworks and autocad.

[b*saint]

it's funny because even though I do 3D modeling withing the framework of Autocad, it doesn't do any of the modeling itselt (thankfuly, Acad is terrible at 3D). Prosteel handles everything. I don't even use any Autocad commands, except the occasional construction line..

Yea its terrible. But Ive been using it so much, I can't apply the concept of Inventor. I get what Im suppose to do. But I haven't used it enough to understand actually drawing with constraints. You know, like how to start.

[BimmerTim]

I'm a mechanical designer.

I used to work for an engineering firm that had a bunch of different customers that all seemed to use different CAD systems.

I was trained in Pro/E, AutoCAD, and Solidworks.

I now work for a small vacuum coating company designing and assembling new coating systems. I work in Solidworks and just a small amount in AutoCAD.

I recently became a CSWP.

I need to go back to school and finish my BA.

[BillBrasky]

I started using Autocad 9 when I was 10 years old. That's right, version 9. We kept buying the updates until Autocad 2004. We pretty much don't need anything past that. In fact, I still use Autocad 14 for the most part. Don't laugh.

[BraveUlysses]

Catia V5 all day, errryday

[BimmerTim]

I've heard a lot of talk about Catia. I've never used it though.

[unibagel]

I started out with AutoCAD 10, took the 8 hour SolidWorks Certification Exam and passed back in 2005. I work for a company that makes Medical Devices. SolidWorks all the way!!

[pfahls1]

This is a 12mm vetebral mill I did a few years back. It mills bone from your disc space (once removed) to slide in a disc replacement. The geometry on the cutting edges was the most challenging thing to model.