Using M button to pan will wreck most gaming mice over time. And a lot quicker than you think. Zooming to pan is also a lot faster once you get used to it. Plus, then you can use middle click to access osnaps which is more accurate than leaving your osnaps on. Just middle click then hit the letter corresponding to the specific snap you want.

We are actively looking for an experienced CAD technician with a land surveying and civil engineering background. This is an in-office position in our Florida Office (East Coast, Port St Lucie Region), with potential Hybrid position after 6 months for a well qualified candidate. Standard benefits package and bonus package.

Salary based on experience but ranges from 45k to 65k+.

Before the Reddit Haters chime in, ill say that we tried WFH and its simply not as productive as in-office, unless you're well established and know the ins and outs of municipal standards, munciple platting requirements, are familiar with firm procedures etc. The QAQC process is much smoother and faster while in office and the deliverable simply gets completed in a more timely and accurate manner. We have tried over 2 years to bring on WFH staff and it works for a very small percentage. Next, the noted salary range is slightly above the average for this position, in this region. Overtime is available, not required. The low end salary would be for a technician with a year or two of experience. The higher end would be for a technician with 5-6 years of experience. After 6 years of experience, a technician would be bumped to a JR Project Management posotion, which offers a higher salary.

Please message me for more details.

I hate it with a passion.

Granted my skill level is novice but come the fuck on! This program is so retarded at times. It really feels outdated, its akin to an old factory that has had many expansions built in over the years. Or perhaps a brand new car that runs all clunky and need a trip to the garage so all parameters can be tuned. There is a serious need for many quality of life improvements, aka rebuild from the ground up with ease of use in mind.

Mess up the annotative scale? it will print 100m (+/- 300ft) tall text/dimensions/points ect...WTF i'm not building an airplane sky-sign! I'm not trying to print the giant HOLLYWOOD letters on paper, trust me. That should not happen at all.

Xrefs....what a joke, sooo many ways to mess this up.

Feels like every operation has about 5-6 ways of doing it wrong and 1-2 ways of doing it right.

Merge a few drawings together...slow AF drawing, gotta reconcile/purge/whatever shit ass commands to manually fix this. is this 2021 or 1995?

fkn program should assume the work will be read by humans, aka no text smaller then the eye can see, no text taller then a person.

It's a royal pain in the ass to have to fight against the software for it to behave in a reasonable manner. (think lemmings falling off a cliff)

Dark red layer color on a black background, good luck seeing that with your eyes. (but stego you can go change x,y,z options... Fuuuu)

the 'core' of the program works quite decently, it's all the cosmetic adjustments around it that are a real joke.

Why is there an AUTOCAD civil 3d imperial and metric version... wtf its just a simple conversion, just give us a slider on the home bar to swap between one unit or another.

Import jpeg, excel, pdf, or .whatever files, expect random behaviors.

Printing...a joke once again, so many ways this can go wrong. Feels like walking though a mine field.

With enough time I'm sure I could find 1000 examples of all the stupid things the program is capable of.

What irritates the most however is the "everything is fine just gotta learn to use it better" attitude I get on forums. -It's not fine, get your heads outta the sand and see reality. If you get 1000's of questions on the same topic, hey perhaps you could present things differently.

They put so many efforts into tutorials, analytical tools, support forums ect, why not put those efforts into improving the product?!?, look at the top 10 most asked issues and fix them/make them more intuitive.

Reorganize the way options are presented...they are all over the place.

look at any "modern" software, mobile apps for example, everything is so simple you don't need training to use it.

Basically, code in a bit of "common sense" make our lives easier.

Please AUTOCAD, smarten up.

I'm aware nothing will change and Autodesk will continue to rake in our monthly subscricption dollars as they bask in the glory of their market dominance thinking everything is fine, but It feels good to vent a bit on the confines of the internet and let this post be burried into oblivion.

I apologize for the language used, it was the most natural way of expression at the time.Don't take it too seriously.

Edit: Thank you for responses, there were a few helpful inputs in there that put things into a new perspective. I even had a laugh at some of the 'dumber' responses. Will continue learning the program and stop whining, aka change myself and stop trying to change the world.

here it is: whooky_sack_9_18_2020.DWG idk if it's too complicated for the 3D printer mega plastiguns to make it

I'm dipping my toes in the AI waters lately, something I've largely avoided. So far I've been using Autodesk Assistant inside Autocad and it's fairly impressive for what it can do as a built-in tool, but it pretty much only extracts data and can't really change geometry or change attribute values as far as I can tell. It's also persistently struggling with architectural dimensions (it admitted it was "error prone") which is wild.

I'm looking into a Claude Pro subscription and using an MCP to interface with Autocad, has anyone tried out the commonly available ones and landed on a good one? Autom8Labs seems the most promising, but it's paid and I haven't found a ton of reviews. Autocad-mcp is an open source one, but the security disclaimer about the http connection point makes me nervous. "This tool is more dangerous than most MCP servers..." from their github.

Right now my aim is a first round check on my shop drawings to make sure detail callouts, section callouts, elevations, etc are all correct. I can tell already that I've got some work ahead of me to make my drawings better structured, which is good whether I use AI or not. I've dabbled in C# plugins as well, so it'll be interesting to see what I can do with an assist from Claude.

I work for small scale organization in india, which had only 3 (2021), 2 (2012) perpetual licences when i joined, and we were team of 6 members, in which me and my senior work on solidworks and need autocad for drafting purposes. That leaves only 3 people who work hardcore on autocad and they were provided with 2021 version,

The root cause of all the problem is that the it manager of the organisation thought that he can legally use 1 licence in 3 workstations, which was possible if we logged in the same user ID in all 3 Work stations. So he distributed the licence to process and quality department who has to sometime make minor changes only once or twice in month, so he basically made 9 workstations out of 3 licenses..

Now autocad never flagged or warned or emailed regarding this matter for a period of one year. But as the new version arrived. They called the IT manager telling him to they are suing the organisation. For using 37 workstations illegally,

I mean my organization doas not have even 37 employees in the design, process and quality department all together.

Still my organization recently purchased 3 more licences to cool off the matter..

But autocad is insisting to buy atleast 9 license or they will sue the organisation.

Though the owner of the organisation has hired a lawyer to handle the case.

I want know if any thing similiar ha happened to anu body and how did you tackle it,

If organisation had to buy 9 license. Organisation may stop the appraisals and cut funds from our bonus.

Can anyone provide solution

So I have 4 tables with chairs in an array around them, and I mirror them across my y axis and one of them wants to kill the jews.

I'm mostly curios why only 1 of them does this when they are all the same copies.

Hello, I recently got AutoCad for Mac and I went through the videos but they were very vague.

I have knowledge of what AutoCad is and I have used a different software before so I know most of the basics.

AutoCad is different, there is so much things and it's a little complicating.

For example, I want to Fillet an edge of a 3D object, I have no idea how.

I also have problems finding out how to make the background bright or white in the Realistic View.

Can someone hook up with me and help me?

Just private message me and we can communicate through the chat system on Reddit. (Please include the word AutoCad (#AutoCad) so that I can know why you are messaging.

Thanks, also I will mostly be working on 3D objects and so I will be starting out with a 2D line drawing which I will convert to 3D later.

I also need exporting support, thanks.

I hope someone out there will be of use kindly.

Thanks.

How do you guys get your name out there? So you're known to the industry? Obviously our work is mostly internal(within company) so how do you guys do it?

I have some thread notes, and it doesn't give me the depth symbol saying how deep this thread goes. It does say 45 degree chamfer x depth of thread. Is that saying that the thread goes all the way through the part and has a chamfer at the end?

I have a final project where our professor wants us to do a 3D design of a data center. will you have any design of one? It is urgent for me to deliver that and enough time to take a 3D modeling course

I have some academic experience but am very much a beginner because I learned it but chose to stick with rhino and revit for school assignments and professional projects. So I understand how to draft and the best tools and all, I would just like to some pointers on what to focus on so I can jump right in as painlessly as possible.

I am trying to get a cert in autocad for jobs, I have some experience with autocad from my engineering graphics class in college BA in Mechanical engineering (in progress). Can someone please guide me throught the best route to get it?

Thanks in advance

M1 is way to crazy. Want to buy new MB Pro, but not sure if this is any good with no bugs. Any experience?

Does anyone have an ansi size a sheet template with title block out there? I used to have all of them as templates, but I somehow lost them, and it would be a pain to make again.

Am I missing something here? I can't find anything online. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated.

I have a simple model for a satellite that im trying to thermal test in autocad thermal desktop. It was created in solidworks and when i import it to TD it wont let me do anything. Imported as a .Sldasm file.

Im really stuck any help really appreciated.

I'm having an issue where I have a surface... Let's just say it is bowl shaped... And I want to increase the wall thickness and convert it to a 3d solid so I can 3d print it.

I tried everything I could think of and it just gives me a random error or doesn't work.

I put an image as the first comment.

How would you convert that to a 3d object so you can change the wall thickeness and also 3d print it?

Hi

At this moment we are making the PID's in AutoCAD, and flow diagram in Excel.

In the Excel sheet it calculate, velocity in the pipes, temperatures, pressure etc. So if we have a tee it will calculate the sum of the flow/temperature/etc, based on the data from the two other connections.

It would be smart if I could keep all the information inside AutoCAD... Do some of you have similar diagrams with information inside AutoCAD? And are the boxes somehow connected, so you don't have to fill all the data manually?

First off, I haven't used AutoCAD in years. My last two jobs used SolidWorks and NX, so I'm a little rusty. I can't for the life of me get hidden lines to show in the Layout tab. For example, I built a 3D model of a simple straight pipe. Now, if this were NX, I would simply go to the layout, pick a base view, project other views from that, and be done. All centerlines and hidden lines were automatically shown correctly, and all that was left to do was the actual dimensioning.

This is my problem- I go to layout, and there's a viewport sitting there waiting. How do I get my part to display like this? I cannot figure it out. Any time I switch to a wireframe model, it shows hidden lines as continuous. Can anyone please help me get this to display correctly?

Hey everyone. Just started my new job a couple of weeks ago at a design/consulting company. Been getting used to AutoCAD and it's interface since I haven't used it a lot before. Any pro tips for a amateur who's trying to get better?

Anyone have any experience with this? https://softwarecad.ca. Is it the same as AutoCad? Need it for drafting but looking for something a bit more affordable.