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09-25-2007, 01:41 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: nor-cal
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|  what is the best way to learn how to use cad programs??
what is the best way to learn how to use cad programs??
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09-25-2007, 01:45 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: England, Where the birds fly backwards.
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by practicing or to get the very basics of how stuff will look get google sketchup then upgrade once you feel comfortable with it...
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09-25-2007, 01:49 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: FOUR 8 OH
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Depending on the program, there are hundreds of websites that have tutorials. Jut do a google search for ' "CAD Program" Tutorials '.
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09-25-2007, 01:56 PM
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later I might by alibre design express its $250 from their webstore | |
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09-25-2007, 02:48 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada
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09-25-2007, 02:50 PM
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09-25-2007, 03:22 PM
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09-25-2007, 05:01 PM
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| I'm a stupid C U N T! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In the Garage!
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it took me years to learn AutoCad and theres tons!!! that I don't know
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09-25-2007, 05:12 PM
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i want to be able to design my own chassis, rock rings, and other parts that dont seem to be that hard!!
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09-25-2007, 05:34 PM
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| 20K Club   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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I have never taken a course in CAD, but would consider my self a pretty decent drafter. Modeling parts in 3D takes a little more practice and a lot more imagination. I was "forced" to learn quickly, I had worked a total of maybe 8 hours in my life and told the engineering firm I wanted to intern for that I could draft. I worked my but off to be able to keep up with what they expected of me, it just got easier and easier. Your best bet is practice and tutorials. You will develop your own "style" that you do tasks. Also, drafting rock rings is not hard however designing a proper chassis IS hard. I helped Double J with his Bull chassis, and I also did the X-Trail for TCS. A lot of hours go into getting it right, and sometimes you can just get plain lucky  Drafting is very fulfilling at the end of the day though. AutoCAD is a great program to learn on, but not the most powerfull program available. If I were you I would find a student (a friend or a friends kid) that goes to college and have them get you a student version, used to be only $99. Student copies are a great deal. |
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09-25-2007, 05:55 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: st. louis
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Most cad systems have built in tutorials now. There is always the library, go check a book out on the program. Granted they may not have one on Alibre, the Alibre site had a bunch of tutorials. If you can't swing a class the best way to learn a cad program is a book and just hammering through it. Its amazing what you can learn just poking around. You're not going to get it all overnight, I have been using Autocad for close to 15 years and still learn something new here and there. |
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09-25-2007, 05:56 PM
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09-25-2007, 08:14 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2005 Location: Twin Cities
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I've been using AutoCAD 07 and AutoCAD Architecture 08. I going to school for architecture so I'm using it everyday and the more you use the faster you can draw stuff. I bought AutoCAD 07 last year with a student discount and it was $150. But it has a license sort of deal which only lasts a year and then you can't use it again unless you buy another license. If you don't want to keep doing that you can buy a perpetual license which never expires but is triple the price.
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