cad is like math

Cad is like math. It´s kind of simple really, cad is just a huge lisp (more or less) and figuring that I was never really good at math, I can see why I suck at cad. There are just some things that are solved simply by logic, that only math can explain.

Recently I read about making title blocks on my layouts, which seemed pretty cool, it would save me the time of changing all of the titles when we figured out the client´s whole name, or the project location was really on a street rather than an avenue,.. anyways that was a time saver.

What i found out is that when I inserted a layout template (with the same block name) it assumed the information in the file, or otherwise all the new layouts inserted automatically assumed the updated information!!

It seems pretty straight forward, but since i suck at math it was a mind blower here.

If anybody knows of any straight forward tips, please advise!

I don't buy into your theroy that one must be good in math to be good at CAD. I think imagination plays a much greater role.

Here is a simple and straightforward tip: keep practicing.

Tip 2: don't worry if it takes a while to get something right - the more you practice the better you'll get

No doubt that Cadtutor is ESSENTIAL to every cad user.

Big thanks to everybody who has taken the time out to help this cad dummy:)

I too was a CAD dummy once upon a time. Now I'm a CAD dork. LOL

.......lol:)

CAD is actually more like sex. The more imaginative you are the better you'll like it.

....haha:lol:

I remember my first day in my AutoCAD college course. The professor asked how many people had experience with AutoCAD before that day. I was the only person of 35 people not to raise my hand.

Toward the end of college, my fellow students would ask me for help. Even the professors would wonder how I did certain things. I wasn't the only one like this, but you get the point.

All it takes is the will to learn, and though being math oriented myself, I also believe creativity plays a big part in creating/upkeeping all the drawings I'm in charge of now.

The ability to think abstractly (is this also a math-oriented trait?) doesn't hurt either. I'll go along with the creativity suggestion too.

I don't buy into your theroy that one must be good in math to be good at CAD. I think imagination plays a much greater role.

 

Here is a simple and straightforward tip: keep practicing.

but it helps if your imagination revolves round logic rather than the artistic :wink:

pedantry helps too - a determination to be so right rather than 'that'll do' really, really makes a good CADbod...

... and vision... the ability to see all the functions before and after the drawing you're producing, and an appreciation of who needs what from a drawing and how it may be edited in the future

Creativity and logic...that´s the answer!

In my experience not everybody has (had) the wil to learn the true power of cad....(sounds like a cool book title)

I can see the CAD/Math corollary, but more in that both build upon a basic foundation and branch into seperate, but related, disciplines. So just as you can't expect to grasp differential equations without understanding algebraic expressions, you won't have much luck quickly creating a detailed set of plans without an understanding of how to copy/move/mirror/array/etc... Also I feel math helps structure your thinking logically and shows that the same "tools" can be used to solve a variety of problems.

exactly....

and besides... 'geometry' is one of the mathematical disciplines :wink:

and besides... 'geometry' is one of the mathematical disciplines :wink:

I agree with Strix hundred percent.

I am a fan of geometry. Mostly because of aiding my daughter to better understand geometry questions if I can't help her solve problems?!

I want to continue the rest of this issue in a separate thread called: "Geometric softwares and ACAD, which one is better?"