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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Autodesk support are coming out of the shadows. If you have a question, you can now ask a real person!
Have you ever tried to contact Autodesk for support? How did you go about it? Email? Phone? Fax? Carrier pigeon? Did you get the support you needed? Where you satisfied with the response?
Find out why I am so enthusiastic about helping people with their AutoCAD and Inventor issues in this internet radio interview with ^CAM from Autodesk Care.
Drafting is a high stress job. We have many ‘customers’ and we can never please everyone. We know that if there are any problems, people will always blame the drawings. Working as a Drafter can make you defensive, crotchety and jaded. Can you still say what it is you enjoy about drafting? You can? Hang on to that thought – it’s important.
No one can work productively and with their full concentration indefinitely. Like all things in life there is a balance.
In his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey discusses four personal values that must be kept in balance to maintain your effectiveness.
What makes a good technical drawing a great technical drawing? What criteria do YOU judge your drawings by?
I polled the CAD community on this question – and I had some great responses. You can find out the results in this post.
When my good friend George found out about my new job, he recommended a few pertinent books to read.
My good friend George is unusual, in that – as well as being a time served wood worker, he also holds a degree in accountancy. In short, when George gives me some advice I listen.
Reading: ‘Good to great’ by Jim Collins
This post isn’t about z-heights in AutoCAD, it’s about document management silly :)
No one who has created more than one or two drawings and wants to share them with their team wants to manage them using Microsoft windows. No one. Yet many of us have to.
The problem is one of trust. Without some S__t hot document management standards (and a big stick) nobody trusts the ‘system’, so nobody uses it. How often have you been asked for ‘the very latest set of drawings’ even though you know that the set of drawings on the server are up to date?!
There have been plenty of software solutions created to solve this problem, in this post I’m talking to Chris Vaught about his new web based document management systems - Flatter files.
The Inventor Mesh Enabler is a free (But time limited) technology preview that enables Inventor users to work with imported Mesh data.
As shipped Inventor 2012 can import mesh data from Catia, STL and JT files. The Mesh Enabler for 2013/2012 adds the ability to post process the imported mesh data to convert the mesh features to Inventor Base features.
Find out how it’s done in this quick tutorial.
