29-03-2013, 09:28 AM
Hi,
Many thanks Big Al for adding the drawings. They certainly look a lot better than many black lines on a white background. I'm slowly (very) catching you up Alan but I'll keep practicing. I thought you only ever used Auto-Cad Alan?
Last night I played around with Solid Edge Free 2D and also watched a long tutorial video on YouTube. SolidEdge is a lot different to EMS CAD but now having gained some experience using EMS CAD I feel more comfortable in stepping up to Solid Edge because I understand some of the basic commands. As a complete novice it used to infuriate me in that I could not even use CAD to draw a single straight line; every time I clicked the mouse it added yet another line; to add to my misery each of these lines used to be a zig-zag resembling the teeth of a saw blade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=okBIf_34GPk&feature=endscreen
I'm only a step up from you David but at least I now feel as though I've got my foot on the first rung of the CAD ladder and of all the projects I've ever tackled I've found CAD to be the hardest and most frustrating. Had it not been for EMS CAD and the delightful tutor Aurora I still would be an absolute CAD novice.
I'll reduce my CAD programs to EMS and Solid-Edge; I already like EMS and I've got a good feeling about Solid-Edge.
This morning the snow has finally stopped falling to be replaced by ice on the inside of the extension windows; it will cheer me up considerably this weekend to know it is summer time?
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks Big Al for adding the drawings. They certainly look a lot better than many black lines on a white background. I'm slowly (very) catching you up Alan but I'll keep practicing. I thought you only ever used Auto-Cad Alan?
Last night I played around with Solid Edge Free 2D and also watched a long tutorial video on YouTube. SolidEdge is a lot different to EMS CAD but now having gained some experience using EMS CAD I feel more comfortable in stepping up to Solid Edge because I understand some of the basic commands. As a complete novice it used to infuriate me in that I could not even use CAD to draw a single straight line; every time I clicked the mouse it added yet another line; to add to my misery each of these lines used to be a zig-zag resembling the teeth of a saw blade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=okBIf_34GPk&feature=endscreen
I'm only a step up from you David but at least I now feel as though I've got my foot on the first rung of the CAD ladder and of all the projects I've ever tackled I've found CAD to be the hardest and most frustrating. Had it not been for EMS CAD and the delightful tutor Aurora I still would be an absolute CAD novice.
I'll reduce my CAD programs to EMS and Solid-Edge; I already like EMS and I've got a good feeling about Solid-Edge.
This morning the snow has finally stopped falling to be replaced by ice on the inside of the extension windows; it will cheer me up considerably this weekend to know it is summer time?
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
