CAD chat

[ArcThanatos]

im new into CAD designing, mostly Metalwork stuff. now i got Intellicad (Autocad Clone basically), just wondering what people here use CAD and looking for people to talk to About CAD and learn more about the program and what people are doing. not here to steal idea's from people, but happy to talk to people and bounce idea's. would like to see a community CAD chat put in here as well, not sure how many people here use CAD im happy to talk to anyone starting and or experienced users about CAD related stuff. learn some new tricks.

[Zando_]

@TVwazhere does CAD for a living IIRC. He may be able to help you out. 

[ARikozuM]

Using Autodesk at the moment. Mostly use it for interior design, wood and metalwork, and little ideas like a smartwatch stand or bed frame.

[ArcThanatos]

any help would or friendly face who is up for talking some shop would be much obliged (CAD is as close to my old work as i can get now , busted a disc in my back and its gone arthritic. no more tradie life for me  . but hey its life). i really am enjoying learning the program, only doing 2D stuff atm. if i can learn more about the program i have a opportunity to go into the CAD field which is great for me as i have the metalwork background and tech skills

[ArcThanatos]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Using Autodesk at the moment. Mostly use it for interior design, wood and metalwork, and little ideas like a smartwatch stand or bed frame.

what kinda bedframe you thinking (please please please none of this 1mm CRS tacked together stuff)

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, ArcThanatos said:

what kinda bedframe you thinking (please please please none of this 1mm CRS tacked together stuff)

I have a spare bed in my home office. I'd like to find a way to lift it against the wall for when it isn't being used. 

[ArcThanatos]

4 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I have a spare bed in my home office. I'd like to find a way to lift it against the wall for when it isn't being used. 

ooooow interesting, so what you are thinking about is like a murphy bed ... you going width or length collapse on it ?

[ARikozuM]

11 minutes ago, ArcThanatos said:

ooooow interesting, so what you are thinking about is like a murphy bed ... you going width or length collapse on it ?

I was only going to do length, but I didn't even consider doing it width-wise...

[ArcThanatos]

length wise is the typical Murphy bed. thou murphys are normally sunk into the wall to make them flush with the wall. you could do it sideways. be slightly different. also less likely to be kissed in the forehead by a falling bed if something goes astray.. you might get a bruised toe. but thats better than a concussion and wetting your pants 

[ARikozuM]

Just now, ArcThanatos said:

length wise is the typical Murphy bed. thou murphys are normally sunk into the wall to make them flush with the wall. you could do it sideways. be slightly different. also less likely to be kissed in the forehead by a falling bed if something goes astray.. you might get a bruised toe. but thats better than a concussion and wetting your pants 

Interesting. I'll definitely amend my plans for this. Might have to create my own metal locking-brackets either way. 

[ArcThanatos]

shouldn't be too hard, you could still use a similar system to the length ways, but your torque requirements to hold the bed in width ways will be less than upright, also locking mechs shouldn't be too hard really. i mean the drawing might take abit but its defaintly doable. but also dont reinvent the wheel unless you have to  

 

[TVwazhere]

Step 1, draw a line

Step 2

 

[ArcThanatos]

5 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Step 1, draw a line

Step 2

 

thats a bit more beyond my skill levels atm, only done about 24hrs of study and work on CAD so far. all i have atm is this and 4 other drawings. for the time being i need to learn the 2d side as thats what my potential employer wants, but i want to learn to do that kinda stuff, that looks pretty intense! 

[TVwazhere]

Just now, ArcThanatos said:

thats a bit more beyond my skill levels atm, only done about 24hrs of study and work on CAD so far. all i have atm is this and 4 other drawings. for the time being i need to learn the 2d side as thats what my potential employer wants, but i want to learn to do that kinda stuff, that looks pretty intense! 

It's actually my Former high schools robotics class, its where I fist learned to really put my classes from middle school and high school to use. Now I just mentor the class, hence technically I drew almost none of that robot. (It was done in six weeks, not the model, the whole robot. From Release of the game, to the robot being packed in a crate)

[ArcThanatos]

im having to learn this on my own, there arent any classes or people with the proper know how to teach it around where i am. and intellicad is a bit hard to find info on, i have to watch autocad\solid works and then find the intellicad equivalent. thou its alot of fun. i have to keep a record of what is where and what does what ( as you can see on my word doc). i have noooo idea what im doing in the 3d part. i made a sphere and then i done something i dont know what... lets say it wasnt close to round after 10 seconds of panic haha

[HansUSA]

yeah those off brand CAD programs can be kind of hard to find stuff for.

i have a playlist of stuff that i need to remember occasionally not much and its for solid-works but it could help.

also auto cad has a free for students edition that has quite a bit of stuff in it.

[ArcThanatos]

cheers  , yeah its a pretty good CAD but yeah not much on it that i can find. might give me cause to actually do like a video on how to use it if i git gud at it haha. i spent my night from 10pm - 6:30am doing cad work, learning stuff and figuring out what done what. i thought it was like 2Am till i saw the sun thru my window