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发表于 2022-7-7 16:34:52
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OK...Here it goes...
I need to learn a little bit (I stress little bit because I know people who have 20+ years working CAD, and I don't have that much time) about AutoCAD because of a new project assigned to me at work. I'd rather not name the company, although it is a very large company on a global scale, sorry. At work, I currently have AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD LT 2012, and FactoryCAD 2012 installed on my machine. The AutoCAD LT is a back up due to my computer crashing with 2010, something about the NVIDEA card...that's a long story which the IT department would rather not be reminded about. They worked on the problem a long time, spent a lot of money basically rebuilding the machine, and finally just said: "screw it, we'll just give you FactoryCAD 2012, and be done with it"...which actually works quite nice.
Instead of lugging my work laptop home, to connect to the work network VPN, I would rather practice on my own computers, at home (or anywhere) without concern for loosing/breaking/the large size of the work laptop/ having to mess with the hassles which come with having a work laptop, did I mention the size of this monster, it's huge! and I usually buy another seat for it when I need to travel to other facilities; it's a hassle lugging it around. I'd rather just keep it at my desk. Therefore, because DraftSight is very similar to AutoCAD, I figure the more practice I get, the better I'll be at this new project which was assigned to me. The company I work for does have training classes for AutoCAD; however, a certain number of people must register for the class to take place, which I have not gotten the required amount of people yet. Because I must refer to facility layouts designed in AutoCAD, I am picking it up quickly. However, I've found out in the past, that with large, complicated programs, it's easy to pick up bad habits. Therefore, the community I'm currently using (you and others), will hopefully teach me procedures, to avert bad habits.
Now, the factory I'm drawing (we'll say is fictitious), is a very large factory, which has multiple assembly lines, work cells, painting areas, test areas, labs and quality areas, machining centers, and large heat treating areas, not to mention office space, employee personnel spaces, cafeterias, lockers, restrooms, storm shelters, bla-bla-bla...
So, it's definitely not feasible to recreate the entire factory; therefore, I would like to be able to create a fictions factory, set the factory boundaries, make an assembly line, maybe put a few fork lift isle lanes in, build a library of objects and learn how to build assembly lines with my objects I create (desk, conveyors, overhead cranes, etc...). I figure if I can create assembly lines here and there by sectioning off various areas of my factory, it will really jump start my learning for work, and make me that much more dangerous. The sooner I learn this stuff, the better position I'll be in to really mess things up!
My fictitious factory is 1320' by 852'8" (which is a little small compared to the original), and has a nice rectangle shape (which is sort of like the original, only with other buildings kind of glued on to the sides over the years as need be). The column spacing of 60' x 40' is correct for the original factory. All the manufacturing areas of the original factory must "fit" inside the Damn columns; therefore, I've been told by people at work, to always set your grid to reflect your factory columns, or you'll be hating life. So, I would like to make a column grid, with little I-Beam objects at each cross section, and begin to build one assembly line (and only one) with objects I create in my library. In addition, I would like to have a scale where 1" = 100', and lets put a revision block somewhere for good measure. As stated, I only wish to build one assembly line in this drawing (due to time constraints). I figure if I can design one assembly line, I'll learn enough to do other things.
I do have a wealth of information available to me for learning through the factory Drafting team at work; however, I don't want to appear like I know nothing about AutoCAD (which they already know anyway...it's a great company)! At any rate, the more I learn the better I'll be. And you are correct, I'll probably print on 17 x 11, although I do have plotter capabilities at work, and I currently am printing CAD files at work for myself and others, so I am familiar with the printing/plotting part of it.
That's a lot to throw at you (boomerang effect) where are we supposed to start?
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