What is the stangest thing you have ever used CAD for?

[vrichard]

Hey there CAD buds,

I have recently just drawn the seating plan for my friends wedding using CAD. It had some nice litttle raster images, fancy text and I have to say I was pretty chuffed with it.

So it got me thinking.... has anyone else ever produced something other than normal CAD stuff with their CAD software?

I love CAD!!! :love:

Vics

[fuccaro]

I love CAD!!! :love:

Vics
You are not the only one!
Read here (http://cadtutor.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1074&)

[vrichard]

It has to be said we are an exclusive breed of people us CAD-types 8). I don't know anybody else who enjoys their job as much as me! & all the CAD Technician's etc I know think CAD is great too.

Whenever I tell people I am a CAD Technician they always ask what that is.... & I think it's pretty cool having a job that not many people know about.

Cheers

Vics

[CadSince81]

I built a matrix containing the list of pills my 80 yo mother has to take down the left side and the different times of day across the top. This could have been easier to do in Excel, but I dont have Excel.

[Mark Thomas]

Desigining letters and team logo for a football field.

[Skeeps]

I once made some personlised christmas wrapping paper for a friends lover. But more recently I created a colouring in book for my 6 year old daughter, loads of spirals and crazy shapes and pattens, pretty good fun for me too. :P

[hyposmurf]

I'm curious now. :) What do they look like?Ive used the find and replace function to locate whether someone had missed something out of a specification.Copied and pasted the text and bingo, it showed up they included it.

[CADTutor]

Hypo, are you in the right forum? :lol:

[hyposmurf]

Yes I think so :) .the specification software I was using had no searvh and find replace facilty.I had 100's of pages to wade through to see if something had been included.Copied the text I needed into AutoCAD and used its find and replace facailty to perform the task I required.I didnt create anything unusual in AutoCAD but its an alternative use for the software.

[erona]

he he he... nice topic but an old one...

Well, I did a lot of crazy things with CAD. Recently, my boss' wife asked me to trace Barney and his friends and plot it on a 36" wide bookpaper for her kid's birtday party. I left her to color the whole thing. :lol:

[Mantis]

Drawing scale buildings isn't odd, but my model railroader friend uses several of my drawings to make the model buildings on his railroad layout.
Does that count?

[Skeeps]

that's fantastic, in fact that's given me an idea. My daughter Lauren loves dolls houses, this might be an ace way of creating scaled furniture and saving on the pennies too, plus if she gets to decorate them that'll keep her busy while I go and do boring adult stuff.
wow, I'm going to get busy on that.
Thankyou.
xx

[Gracie]

The "craziest" thing I've done in autocad (not really crazy but more of a waste of ink) is use it as a printer for another department at work that wanted a giant colored printout of a Christmas tree. Not only did it take a long time to print, I just cringed when I saw how much ink it used up. Otherwise, I've been pretty "normal" in my use of Autocad.

I'm sure when I get around to planning my wedding, I'll use autocad for the seating chart, etc. Can't wait!

Grace

[erona]

Good luck on your wedding Gracie. I remember recreating in plan the seating arrangement for the reception after my wedding. It went perfectly on actual! :lol:

i luv cad... :heart:

[Bloodwig80]

i drew a perspective view of a street with cars and people etc in cad. also did a take-off of my folks' house so they could go buy furniture with a plan view of the house...

[Murph]

Everytime my wife says "This room is boring. Can we re-arrange it?" I don't cringe. I get out the tape measure and draw in the furniture (I already have the house drawn into CAD) and rearrange it in CAD with her input. Saves my back.

I have also helped a former co-worker do a big over-the-counter menu for a Chinese Restaurant.

I have downloaded WWII maps from the archives, plopped a bunch into an Arch E border and plotted away.

[Spacepig]

Hi - I use it on one machine all day for monitoring the FTSE futures market and to analyse intraday trends for day trading.

[kezflake]

My mum has started a cake decorating course and she wants me to build the cake she designed in 3D CAD before she builds it so she can see what it will look like.

I have also found that I prepare AutoCAD for creating the bare bones of website layout and artwork before I export to Photoshop.

[dumfatnhappy]

I did my resume' on it since I didn't know 'Word' at the time.

also designed the logo for my dad's restaurant

digitized a picture of a womans house (so it looked like I hand drew it) and printed it on coffee cups and gave her one but changed the year till she had a full set

designed 2 christmas ornaments of diff dogs and had them lazered on round glass disks....

I'm sure there is more......

[SuperCAD]

I designed my friend's tatoo with CAD. That's about the strangest request I've encountered so far.

[alanjt]

i did a birthday invitation for my boss's son's birthday. he wanted me to make it look like a plan set.

[Leroy Jenkins]

I designed my friend's tatoo with CAD. That's about the strangest request I've encountered so far.

That's the exact thing I've done. :D He has it on his shoulder right now.

[skipsophrenic]

I designed my friend's tatoo with CAD. That's about the strangest request I've encountered so far.

I designed my next 1, but it's just not realistic at the moment! trying to get a good representation of fire

[jonesy]

I designed my next 1, but it's just not realistic at the moment! trying to get a good representation of fireI'm glad I'm not the only one who designed tattoos on CAD (I did mine on it)

[ReMark]

Drew up a 36" dia protractor for the welding department.

Drew up the shoulder patch for our company fire/safety department which they had reproduced in color and sewn on to all the uniforms.

Drew up a large periodic chart (of elements) for one of the chem lab department heads. Plotted it in color. I thought you could buy one of these at any hobby shop or bookstore?

Laid out the floor plans/elevations for a micro-brewery/restaurant and clock tower for the same building at request of company president (we're a chemical company). Also drew a detailed "as built" sketch of the clockworks so it could be disassembled, repaired and reinstalled. His wife was the owner of the business. All on "company" time. Got a free lunch for it too.

[Strix]

I too did the seating plans for the wedding, but also did the list of names for the place cards (well they were glasses with candles in, and I was only copying by hand from the list, but had done the list in the required font), and have produced stencils of celtic knots for one or two things - one being a two seater stool basic bench I'd made as a wedding present for some arty friends (buying a prezzie seemed to be cheating)

I've also used it for scale printing pictures instead of faffing about with software I can't work :P

Ohhhh - and I had some plain metal cupboard handles from Ikea, which we intended having glass overlays handmade for, so I ran off the design in AutoCAD, and printed it onto acetate, then used spray mount to stick it to the handles. We never got round to having the glass ones made so the acetate CAD ones are still in place

there's a chart on our kitchen wall for when to plant seeds, when they flower, and when they should be picked - that's AutoCAD too

[hotrodz0321]

Ive designed vehicle graphics (flames, racing stripes, etc.), exported to DXF then imported it into my sign software and cut the graphics out. I have also designed t-shirts and business logos for windows. AutoCAD has proven to be a very useful tool even outside of the workplace.

[neekcotrack]

I would say the weirdes thing I have done on CAD was design a coversheet for my company manual. They where full color pictures. Plus I did the manual to in CAD.

[hotrodz0321]

i just designed a logo for a karate..group?..i dont really know how to refer to them..but anyways....all designed in autocad, exported to dxf, imported into some embroidery software and had someone embroider a bunch of their uniforms......

can someone think of something CAD cant be used for?....i submit that you cannot

[Strix]

Mr Strix says it can't do the washing up :glare:

[cmorg123]

when my wife and i were looking for appartments my wife (who is also a drafter) would take measurements of the appartment we were looking at and make a floor plan and then take measurments of our furniture, just block outlines mind you and see what arrangement she liked best.

[yedan]

i have also used for tattoo's and i used to use it for modelling spacecraft exporting them to 3ds then importing into game modification tools and finally flying them around in the games themselves :), wedding seating plans, brickwall patterns for CNC machines to manufacture, quite a few strange things really

[BOB'27T]

My boss is into RC airplanes. He had me design a tool to adjust the servos for the controller.

[EMS_0525]

I have used it to create a sticker for our Dual Sport Motorcycle group. quite a few tattoos....
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q168/klxsonly/EMS_0525/RambosSticker.jpg

[jaylo23]

Have used CAD to do alot of tatoos and some banners for the company triatholon team i use to be on. "GO FIGHTING BLANCONEEERS!"

[skipsophrenic]

Mr Strix says it can't do the washing up :glare:

Write a Macro or LISP routine! LOL

[Rebel]

I used autocad to map out my neighborhoods houses, and put the neighbors i met in each respective house. I dont talk to people much so I always forget names and this was a way for me to keep track of whos who :lol:

[Strix]

I need one of those with people's desks on it!

It's really weird being asked to go back to a place after 8 years :oops: