beginners beginner- Help with

udo · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:03:11

i have toyed with the idea of learning autocad for years. have played around with many versions and was always confused as ever. finally i have taken the pluge and splased out and bought autocad 2008.
i also bought a tutorial cd on the net and i searched the net for tutorial options.
all those tutorial use a different pageview than the one on my computer and none of the tuts teach how to set up the page. now i find it cofusing to say the least when i am supposed to learn from a page that looks utterly different then mine.
at this stage i can't even draw a line.
is there anyone out there who can help me to set my page up to match any of the existing tutorials???
help please.

ReMark · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:12:01

You need to take a chill pill.  Relax.  Take a deep breath.

To open a "blank" drawing click on File > New and select the acad.dwt drawing file template.  No title block, no border, no text of any kind.  Serene nothingness.  Blank.  Void.  Happier now?

OK.  What is your next question?  We're ready, willing and able.

skipsophrenic · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:23:15

I can help you
email me at Lone_kite@live.ca

stevsmith · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:25:45

thanks for that, i followed your advise and played around a little. got something onto the screen , wanted to cut some ends off but it didn't work. tried trim, erase and anything else i could think off. problem is that just playing around doesn't lead to anything - without a simple but guided excercise i can't see how i can make any progress??

Tankman · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:37:47

thanks ReMark and Englishman
thanks for your offer and help but i am a real hard case, i think. any help is very much appreciated but my problem seems to be that i can't see where to start and that is why i cannot come up with specific questions.
have taken some chill pills and tried again. got actually some obscure figure onto the screen. tried to play around with what i had on my screen and used help, i thought i followed the instruction to move and or trim but didn't work. autocad is very frustrating to me.
anything else i have learnt appears to have been successful because of some structural exercises that started at the real rock bottom level. with autocad it appears that there is a little bit of this and a little bit of that but i am missing a thread and instructions that work. i am aware that it is me because all you autocad gurus out there are proove that this program is brilliant. i just don't know haow i can get it started for me.

udo · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:47:17

You cannot trim the ends of a single line without resorting to temporarily adding at least one or two other lines.  What could you do to make a single line shorter?  Well, there's the Break command.  There is also the Stretch command.  With Stretch you can actually stretch a line longer or shorter.  If the line is horizontal or vertical it helps to have Ortho toggled "on" to maintain the straightness of the line.

Yes, CAD for beginners can be a maddening exercise in frustration if you do not have someone with experience sitting beside you and guiding you.  I strongly urge you to pick up a good aftermarket AutoCAD book, one that comes with a CD of drawing examples, and sitting down with it at your computer start with page 1 and slowly work your way through it.

My other piece of advice would be to consider taking a basic AutoCAD course at a local community college (relatively inexpensive).  In the meantime put a little more effort into looking at some of the online video-tutorials that explain various commands.  You want to start with the basic draw commands followed by the modify commands as these are probably the most used functions in AutoCAD.

Now, are you going to actually follow our advice or just sit there and keep saying "I can't do this...it's too hard"?

udo · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:48:48

You will waste soooo much time trying to figure things out yourself
I have an excellent level 1 (AutoCAD 2008) 2 disc video course which takes you through all the beginners stuff email me at Lone_Kite at hotmail.com if you are interested.

ReMark · 发表于 2022-7-8 12:56:51

One more tip; at the bottom of the screen you have the Command Line (a white area where you see all the commands you use). You can pull the top of the Command Line so to make it bigger. I'd recommend in the beginning to have it at least 4 or 5 lines high so you see all the text at once.

And learn to look at the Command Line! By reading on the Command Line you'll know what AutoCAD is wanting from you. You can't believe how many times I've gone over to a collegues station and just said "Read the command line" and watch them go pink...and these are guys and gals that have worked with the program for several years!

Dipali · 发表于 2022-7-8 13:07:58

I am not sure AutoCAD is what you want to learn. Think about it for a second. Where do you want to work and what edge can you give yourself to snuff out other competitors vying for that job?

We live and breath in a 3 dimensional world. Why would we want to create 2d geometry to describe our product/home/environment in 2 dimensions. I say learn Rivet first then 2d.... its easier. And the community colleges have it all wrong by making students learn 2d first. 3d first then 2d if you really need it.

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