Find out how to apply the British and International Technical Drawing standards to your dawings.
Learn how to model your designs in with Autodesk Inventor, then create drawings and cutting tickets from the model.
Useful resources for Setting out, CAD, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Joinery, Woodworking, Millwork, Cabinetry and Building Construction.
Reviews of CAD and Architectural fabrication Books, Web sites, tools, software and anything else that grabs my attention!
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Welcome to the Cad Setter Out. This is my Blog for posting the tips, tricks, tutorials and reference that I have picked up over the last few years of producing joinery shop drawings using CAD.
The focus will be on Autodesk software products, primarily AutoCad and Inventor (because that’s what I use) and on Setting Out working drawings for the Construction industry (because that’s what I do).
I hope that this Blog will become a useful resource for my colleagues and myself, and maybe for you too.
2011 has been a pretty exciting year for the CAD Setter Out. Some of the highlights have included speaking at BIM show live, writing for Shaan Hurley, Steve Bedder and AUGI and having a number of my posts Tweeted by Lynn Allen :) I began illustrating the ‘Cadaroo‘ cartoon with Curt Moreno, who made his début at AU (Cadaroo…
My absolute, tip-top, number one productivity tip for editing geometry in AutoCAD is to use the Properties palette.
Today’s post comes in the form of a guest post for Edwin Prakoso of CAD-Notes.com. Every-time I find myself performing the same tasks in AutoCAD over and over, I look for ways to automate the task. Command macro’s are a really simple way of combining commands together to perform repetitive tasks in a single click. In this guest…
If you are creating AutoCAD drawings which contain a lot of geometry, I highly recommend that you concentrate on keeping your geometry organised as you go along. Using Polylines, Groups, Blocks, Xref’s and Layers will really help you to create and edit your geometry in an efficient fashion. In this post I want to concentrate…
Did you get to Autodesk University this year? Na – me either. Read this post to find out the best of what happened this year at AU 2011 here. BIM 360, Nexus 360, Inventor Fusion for Mac and software for everyone!
OK, this doesn’t really count as a guest post. One of the many strange things that I enjoy doing purely to amuse myself, is to illustrate peoples Twitter tweets. What can I say, it tickles me… This tweet from @CADtoolbox, Thomas Rambach lead to this illustration of @Solidsmack Josh Mings, and @CADJunkie, Adam O’hearn – the dynamic…
