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I started getting a little use out of autocad that might actually be worthy. I sense a few writeups coming on. Maybe. :hyper: Anyone got a special request? I've just been taking parts off my truck and bringing them up here :lol:

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I love it cause it's all to exact dimensions. I changed something the other day and I drew it back in just with dimensions from my calipers and it didn't match up because I started in the middle and the measurements I was getting were different than the last time. There were a lot of spots the calipers wouldn't fit in. Autocad made this blindingly obvious when I got to the end and had a 1/32" gap, but that was really neat that it kinda "makes" you figure out what you didn't measure good enough. I had a couple .01" screwups where the calipers woudn't fit in the groove so I had to hold them above it and guess which was apparently getting me within 0.01". It added up and gave me the 1/32" screwup. Then you click on anything and it will give you the dimension. I have messed with a ton of things on my truck and wished I had drawn every one of them. :banghead:

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I've lost my touch on resources with the net... Used to be able to get anything I wanted off of the net!

Is the autocad hard to use or navigate?

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Lol, ehh, which one do I wanna pick?

It isn't as easy as paintbrush if thats what you mean :lmao:

This is how it is. http://i48.tinypic.com/255o1up.jpg

Its hard if you try and wing it I'd say. It's kinda like excel though, everyone knows how to put in =2+2, but when you get into actual functions you don't really know what they are. I went through 200 pages of a 1300 page book to get this far, but I wouldn't say its that hard once you know what all the functions do. Theres 5 ways to do everything on there.

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I started getting a little use out of autocad that might actually be worthy. I sense a few writeups coming on. Maybe. :hyper: Anyone got a special request? I've just been taking parts off my truck and bringing them up here :lol:

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dimensioning to the top of the hole is pretty odd. is that how the spec is listed, or just how you chose to do it? Generally, practice is to dimension to mounting surfaces for flats, and to centers of holes.
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Got it, don't know how to use it yet :lol:

Way better than any version of AutoCad I have used. You can specify everything, and the tree on the left is great. You can "mate" surfaces, gears, and pretty much graphically crash your computer with large assemblies. But, you can make great animations and drawings without much effort once the assemblies are done.
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dimensioning to the top of the hole is pretty odd. is that how the spec is listed, or just how you chose to do it? Generally, practice is to dimension to mounting surfaces for flats, and to centers of holes.

Yeah for measuring the fuel shutoff solenoid it is much easier to measure the top than try and center it. http://dodgeram.org/tech/dsl/troubleshooting/12v_fuel_solenoid.html Their measurement is obviously different...I have secrets :evilgrin:
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Way better than any version of AutoCad I have used. You can specify everything, and the tree on the left is great. You can "mate" surfaces, gears, and pretty much graphically crash your computer with large assemblies. But, you can make great animations and drawings without much effort once the assemblies are done.

Yeah I saw what some other people did with it. Guys were making entire parts in the first week of school so I guess it's not that hard. Took a week just to learn how to open AutoCad :lol:
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