Quality Control you drawings
Wouldn't it be fun to be the system manager and setup the quality control and police all the drawings your firm does every day to be sure everyone is drawing lines on the correct layer, font styles are correct, dimensions the right size, colors by layer, etc.? No? Too much work? How much work is it to fix a drawing after someone has totally messed it up? Five hours? Ten hours? Why not instead setup CADQC to check your drawings for you and be sure everyone is drawing correctly. We have several people in our office alone that would benefit from this.
Keep trucks from hitting your building
Ever want to really test to see is you have enough room for an 18 wheeler to back in, unload, and pull out? AutoTURN will automatically check you drawing for you. You tell it what type of truck to test with (or airplane) and it will move the truck along a path tracing each wheel as a line to show you where the boundaries are for that vehicle. You can then design the parking lot, building placement and vegetation accordingly to keep them from being hit or run over. It is a bit pricey, but if you are doing civil work, or numerous large scale commercial projects or even an airport this program can come in very handy.
Tutoring in ACAD
I often get asked about tutoring and training for ACAD. One solution is SofTutor. They offer on CD-Rom a set of various lessons that play on your monitor on one side while you work on the other half of your monitor in ACAD following along. Like most lessons & books however, they teach you via buttons and toolbars and pull down menus. Ask any good CAD drafter and they will tell you not to use most of the buttons, pull downs and tool bars. The reason why is simply it is far quicker to type 1 or 2 letters and press the space bar (equals a return) then it is to find the correct button, move the mouse over to it, press and release the button while hovering, then move the mouse back to where you are working. This method takes far too long to be any practical use, yet that is the method Autodesk is pushing us into because that is the easiest way to write a book - press the icon then press that icon. If you want a basic lesson in ACAD to get your feet wet, great, but if you want something more meaty and realistic look somewhere else, although they better stuff that uses hotkeys, LISP routines, etc. are few and far between. Feel free to view their demo videos that are online and see for yourself what you think.
Wouldn't it be fun to be the system manager and setup the quality control and police all the drawings your firm does every day to be sure everyone is drawing lines on the correct layer, font styles are correct, dimensions the right size, colors by layer, etc.? No? Too much work? How much work is it to fix a drawing after someone has totally messed it up? Five hours? Ten hours? Why not instead setup CADQC to check your drawings for you and be sure everyone is drawing correctly. We have several people in our office alone that would benefit from this.
Keep trucks from hitting your building
Ever want to really test to see is you have enough room for an 18 wheeler to back in, unload, and pull out? AutoTURN will automatically check you drawing for you. You tell it what type of truck to test with (or airplane) and it will move the truck along a path tracing each wheel as a line to show you where the boundaries are for that vehicle. You can then design the parking lot, building placement and vegetation accordingly to keep them from being hit or run over. It is a bit pricey, but if you are doing civil work, or numerous large scale commercial projects or even an airport this program can come in very handy.
Tutoring in ACAD
I often get asked about tutoring and training for ACAD. One solution is SofTutor. They offer on CD-Rom a set of various lessons that play on your monitor on one side while you work on the other half of your monitor in ACAD following along. Like most lessons & books however, they teach you via buttons and toolbars and pull down menus. Ask any good CAD drafter and they will tell you not to use most of the buttons, pull downs and tool bars. The reason why is simply it is far quicker to type 1 or 2 letters and press the space bar (equals a return) then it is to find the correct button, move the mouse over to it, press and release the button while hovering, then move the mouse back to where you are working. This method takes far too long to be any practical use, yet that is the method Autodesk is pushing us into because that is the easiest way to write a book - press the icon then press that icon. If you want a basic lesson in ACAD to get your feet wet, great, but if you want something more meaty and realistic look somewhere else, although they better stuff that uses hotkeys, LISP routines, etc. are few and far between. Feel free to view their demo videos that are online and see for yourself what you think.
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