Question for Assignment

[Lesnrrs]

I have seen this question posted before and I also have not been able to find anyone locally that can answer these questions for my assignment or come across those who are not willing to take the time to do so. If you are a 2010 AutoCAD user and would like to help, please help answer the following questions. I am a college student and this is for an assignment that is due tomorrow. The questions are:

 

Name:

Profession:

Location:

Questions for Assignment:

1: When do you use CAD in the production process? (i.e. preliminary design, design development, etc.)

2: What types of standardization you use?

3: What are the advantages or disadvantages that CAD brings to your practice?

4: Can AutoCAD be used as effectively for designing as it is used for reading construction documents? Please provide logical examples to support your answer.

5: Do you use Modelspace and Paperspace?

*If so, what are the advantages of doing this?

*If you do not use model space and paper space, what changes would have to be made to your drawings and what problems do you foresee if you have to go back and edit these?

*If you do not use modelspace and paperspace, please identify why it is not used by your firm.

TIP - See if you can get interviewee to show you examples of how paperspace layouts are used to manipulate modelspace drawings. This will aid you in completing Week 4 assignment 3.

Do you have examples you can share with me? That would be excellent!

6: If you use modelspace and paperspace, please answer the following question:

*Since every AutoCAD drawing is usually created on a scale of 1:1, won't the scale hinder you as a designer in terms of sheet layout?

*Why or why not? (Provide logical examples to support your answer).

If you do not use paperspace, then please explain how your firm plots for the various scales on each sheet.

Do you have any other advice, tips, shortcuts that you would be willing to share with a beginner of AutoCAD?

Thank you for your time!

[bonehead411]

I have seen this question posted before and I also have not been able to find anyone locally that can answer these questions for my assignment or come across those who are not willing to take the time to do so.

 

What we aren't willing to do around here is help those who want the answers given to them on a plate.

 

Just about everyone here would be able to give you answers to all of those questions, but I doubt anyone will.

 

Do you seriously expect to post an excerpt from an assignment due tomorrow and find somebody here to do the work for you? Not gonna happen.

[Lesnrrs]

I think your username fits you well! This assignment was to ask an experienced professional about AutoCAD to help us students become better acquainted with what others use this program for and to help us in our future assignments. The gentleman I previously interviewed did not have a licensed program and I did not feel comfortable putting his answers on my homework. For you to think that I am waiting until the last minute is sadly mistaken. If you weren't willing to help, then don't put your nose where it doesn't belong! Help is needed in the tutor forum, not people who have nothing better to do than to be ugly to others!

[ReMark]

Lesnrrs:

 

Maybe it was the way you phrased your initial question that led us to believe you were requesting someone do your homework for you. Had you stated your assignment was to interview someone in the CAD field perhaps the first response you got would not have caused such a stir. Do you see what I'm getting at?

 

Please give it some consideration. Thank you.

[RobDraw]

That was a fine welcome there guys. I won't blame the OP if they never come back.

[Tankman]

I think ReMark said it, a student wanting to interview a person or persons engaged in industry primarily using AutoCAD products.

 

Name:

Profession:

Location:

 

Perhaps Lesnrrs could or should call a few local engineering firms? A face to face interview and a view of a professional work place would be in order.

[bonehead411]

Lesnrrs,

 

I'm big enough to admit when I'm wrong, and it seems I may have misjudged the situation. Please accept my apologies for my initial "ugly" response.

 

We are all willing to help, but we do tire of students wanting the work done for them at the last minute.

 

I sincerely hope you accept my apology, and I also hope that you WILL come back should you need further help.

 

ReMark & RobDraw: Thank you both.

[CJJ]

I use '09 but I could probably answer your questions, if that's OK. Still got time before you turn it in?

 

Tried to contact you privately through the forum with my answers, but could not.

[JD Mather]

1. Digital Prototyping - 3D model is the single source of truth, all 2D representations of the real world are generated from the 3D model. FEA and Dynamic Simulation generated from the 3D model. AutoCAD is not suitable for digital prototyping in a modern world.

 

2. I use ANSI (USA) metric and inch.

 

3. Digital Prototyping of virtual parts before making any physical parts.

 

4. I work in mechanical field, not architectural/construction. I have heard there are also modern CAD tools used in the architectural/construction field. If I were a student I think I would want to be learning the next-generation tools. Students can download Autodesk next-generation tools for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity (more than 1.25 million members have).

 

5. If I had to use AutoCAD Paperspace/Modelspace is the only correct technique. Models at 1:1 in modelspace and borders/title blocks at 1:1 in paperspace. Layout views at appropriate scales.

 

Do you have any other advice, tips, shortcuts that you would be willing to share with a beginner of AutoCAD?

 

As a beginner forget AutoCAD - you will be in competition with the millions of others who have learned AutoCAD over the past 25+ years. It takes several years to achieve a professional level of competence in any CAD program. If you spend your time studying history (AutoCAD) where will you be in several years? Learn one of the next-generation tools and leave the generation that moved from the drawing boards to AutoCAD. Digital Prototyping is the next wave...

[CJJ]

1. Civil Engineering. We us AutoCAD for the survey process (to model the existing terrain of the land we're developing), for the preliminary design process (to show clients prooposed locations of buildings, etc), to do the actual designs (model proposed grading of land, location of buildings, parking, streets, sidewalks, plants, etc), designing utility infrastructure (sewer lines, water mains, electrical conduits, irrigation lines), for stormwater management (catch basins and inlets, storm drains, storm sewer, and BMP ponds). Our plans are sent to the various municipalities and government reviewers, and also final plans are sent to contractors for use to build the sites. We do use some other programs to do calculations for some things, but CAD is pretty much used from start to finish in our processes.

 

2. We have company standards for fonts, symbols, linetypes, etc. The linetypes and symbols we use are usually universally understood throughout the industry (for example, everyone uses the same lintypes for property lines and similar symbols for a fire hydrant, etc)

 

3. Advantages (when compared to hand-drawings) include a much higher degree of accuracy for our plans, very easy to reproduce plans, much faster for design process, much easier to modify plans, much easier to collaborate with other people (both inside and outside of the company) to produce plans, etc. We also can import GIS information, existing topographical information from old jobs or from municipal sources, etc. with minimal effort, and reproducing detail specifications.

 

4. Designing in AutoCAD definitely increases the efficiency and accuracy of designs. The level of precision you get from ACAD makes it much more effective when designing just about anything. Examples: Instantly define setbacks from property lines, instantly calculate slopes of pipes you're designing, make sure you have enough ground cover over utilities, make sure you have enough clearance between utilites, instantly identify center points for a radius on a curb or roadway, etc.

 

5. All design is done in model space. Paper space is only used for title blocks, notes, and occasionally for details. Advantages of using model space make sure that your design is always exactly to scale. Putting text in paper space ensures uniformity of font sizes and clarity of plans, regardless of the scale at which your model is represented. Also, you'll never have to scale anything in the drawing, only the scale at which it is shown in the paperspace.

 

6. You always draw your model to scale, then only scale the viewports. This way you can have different scales on different sheets, but never have to change the scale of your model. It doesn't hinder you, in fact it helps, because you can show two different scales on the same page with two different viewports to show a detailed view at a scale that is easier to read, for example.