semi_Autocad

[mayday]

Dont ya just wanna ring some necks!!

get a hot job, import an autocad dwg and find every close tol entity is drawn out of position by just a small amount to make it out of print dimentions.I was always taught to draw with integrity.seems like the few acad users out there just dont get it. I'd like to see them start designing in solids. that would put them in there place.

 

Give me a solid anyday

[Rekd™]

+1

 

'Rekd teh "+1"; adds 1 to post count without having to say anything"

[Keith M]

I do architectural drawing at home in my spare time. I have found differences of 2 feet on some of the drawing that I have gotten to start with.

[fboike]

I don't think its acad, I believe designers not

bothering to check ther own work. (just so busy)

(just to lazy) are the problem. I always have this problem. so I let'em know upfront the time

they saved themselfs will be used by me to redraw

ther work.

[lynnz]

+2!!

 

Lynn

[KCollins]

acad....(older versions) doesn't have the correlation between the dimesions and the part...so many desiners thought it a much easier tast to change the dimension text rather than modify the part....ie...my vote is for laziness...

[mayday]

I notice a lot of us from the Great Lake State on this one

maybe its just our engine-ears

[kathy]

+1

 

pure laziness...

 

This is an on going problem, and one area where I see companies could save alot of money if designers / draftsmen would take personal responsability for their work.

At Douglas, who would hire only the top 10% of applying new engineers (kids right out of school, MIT, CAL-TECH, Cream of the Crop, ect), put them to work designing their first project - and than send them down to the floor to build it!!

 

Good Training

Kathy

[mayday]

+1 to Kathy

 

should be like med school

send em out in the real world, make them learn. I can't count the times I've called engineers about this. there reply... oops.

 

 

hey where's the undo button on this machine

[Zero]

quote:

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I always have this problem. so I let'em know upfront the time

they saved themselfs will be used by me to redraw

ther work.

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That's the easy part. Trying to get them to actually listen is the hard part

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Trust me you do not have the only Engineers with a lack of drawing integrity. It just amazes me that 2-D even exists for anything other then the simplest of parts. We've got one idiot here, he rejected a part because it didn't "look" like the DWG. He wanted something impossible so I took the liberty of correcting his mistake. SO he rejects it, I loose my cool, go upstairs and tell him "The real world is 3-D, You don't have a clue, and you're a moron", plus a few other things, and I storm off. Argggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such idiots, and we've got a few of them.

[mayday]

ya we got the dream team to

 

get this they got 6 seats of sw2003 but what do they use?

good ol autocad

 

luckly the sw seats run of the intranet so I've always got the oportunity to use one of them

 

I call and ask why not sw???

 

oh we're not good at it yet

[skeetboy25]

and the funny part is.. you can draw most of your every day 2d in MC in about90% of the time it takes acad, solids, about60%.

 

I'll admit, I'd rater spit out prints on acad, thats what its designed to do, so let it. however, MC (as awkward as it may be to dim with) is there to spit out parts 100%, so why not let it?