#@$%&^& Cad,

[MichaelH27]

If anyone out there knows why Autocad is so complex and stressfull, Could you let me know.

Thanks,

[StykFacE]

Really? This is your "first post"? This is not the forum for people with a first post such as this.

[ReMark]

Any particular feature that is complex and/or stressful or are you generalizing?

The more specific your question the more specific our answers.

[f700es]

If anyone out there knows why Autocad is so complex and stressfull, Could you let me know.

Thanks,

It is a complex engineering program made for many different applications. I honestly don't have many issues with it myself. Have you been trained in it's use?

[MichaelH27]

I'm a tad bit frustrated. I am working for a guy that is not interested in getting a licenced copy of Cad, He wants me to reproduce competitors plans using extremely limited resources. He had to call the guy that he fired a few years ago, To come into work and explain to me why and how the dwg's are messed up. Now I have to learn annotative text, which I have never had to deal with before. My days at work are not fun.

[f700es]

I can see that being frustrating I've worked with people that felt their job security depended making the cad system as complex as possible. Never an easy act to follow.

I'm a tad bit frustrated. I am working for a guy that is not interested in getting a licenced copy of Cad, He wants me to reproduce competitors plans using extremely limited resources. He had to call the guy that he fired a few years ago, To come into work and explain to me why and how the dwg's are messed up. Now I have to learn annotative text, which I have never had to deal with before. My days at work are not fun.

[ReMark]

There are at least three different tutorials about annotative scaling (which can be assigned to text, dimensions, hatches, and blocks) available online at AutoDesk University.

BTW, although I know enough about annotative scaling to get in trouble, I do not use it. I do all my dimensioning and text in my paper space layout. A lot less hassle in my opinion.

[MichaelH27]

I like your thinking, I am going to make things complex for myself when there is really no need to do so. Keep it simple and find work arounds,

[ReMark]

The method I describe is an option...not a workaround.

Annotative scaling does have its strong points and if I were working in a different discipline, like architecture, I'd probably be using it myself.

[CyberAngel]

Annotative text is not for the squeamish. My condolences.

The short answer is that AutoCAD has been around since the early days of office automation, the early 1980s that is. It has features that were tacked on in the early going and have never been revisited, mainly because of backward compatibility. An AutoLISP script that you wrote in 1992, say, should still work today, no matter how much stress and confusion the stasis causes. For some reason, backward compatibility wasn't an issue when they jettisoned everything in Land Desktop, so your 20-year-old script trumps my 5-year-old project.

There are errors and poor decisions that haven't been corrected in the 20 years I've been using AutoCAD. Try drawing a dimension where the text won't quite fit in the space you're dimensioning. Yes, you have several options for handling that situation, and all of them are bad. At this point I just explode those dimensions and plod onward. The list of similar items is a long one.