CADTutor.net is a great forum

[Crump]

I have been a CAD tech working with MicroStation for over twenty years. I've never before worked with AutoCAD. After all these years my employer is now changing to AutoCAD. I am scheduled to go through some formal AutoCAD training in a few months. In the meantime, to help prepare myself, I have been tinkering with the AutoCAD software on a shared work station and I've been looking at training materials available on the internet. I ran across this forum and I am very impressed. It is very good of you to set up a site where people can get help with their AutoCAD problems. I have not actually begun working with AutoCAD so I do not have any questions yet but I'm sure I will soon enough. Thanks for providing the forum—I think it's great.

[DANIEL]

welcome to CADtutor

[ReMark]

Welcome to the CADTutor forum Crump. I'm sure the brains behind this whole idea, David Watson, would be pleased to read your comments.

Environmental? I worked in that field for several years too. The firm I worked for, Consulting Environmental Engineers, did mostly wastewater treatment systems for both civil and municipal clients. And your firm?

[bill_borec]

It's good to see someone coming to the light (from MicroStation to AutoCAD)! j/k

Welcome to the forum! Post any questions you have. Having worked with both (MS and AutoCAD), I can understand some of the upcoming frustration. I prefer AutoCAD, BTW...but I was 'raised' on AutoCAD. There are a lot of similarities, but to avoid copyright (or some other legal mumbo-jumbo), often you will find slightly different terminology (levels vs. layers being the first to come to mind) to accomplish the same thing.

Good luck!

[Crump]

Environmental? I worked in that field for several years too. The firm I worked for, Consulting Environmental Engineers, did mostly wastewater treatment systems for both civil and municipal clients. And your firm?

Gresham Smith and Partners, it is an architecture and engineering firm. I am in the environmental department.

[ReMark]

Are you involved in any Superfund site cleanups?

Most of our environmental work dealt with putting in monitoring wells for clients that had on-site contamination of groundwater. We also helped out a number of firms who had old sludge lagoons they were trying to close so they could reclaim the use of the land.

[Crump]

Are you involved in any Superfund site cleanups?

No, at least not recently. The firm does environmental compliance work and I have in the past worked on those type projects from time to time; however, I work primarily with municipal water and sewer systems.

[Dadgad]

Welcome to the forum.

[Crump]

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks Dadgad, and everyone else for welcoming me to the forum.*

[vactsf]

Hi all,

This forum looks really great. I would give another feedback in a week. Just joined yesterday.

BTW, there is a problem.

When I'm trying to post or reply, I get a message saying "You are not logged in" frequently.

At first I thought, its because using Chrome in incognito mode. Then I switched to the regular mode, but the problem persists. Is it a problem with the site or my browser?