Dave - 6-20-2008 at 03:49 PM
Fuck, am i ever glad that i left the old one.
I love it here, nice and quiet, relaxed, and everyone is really nice...
AND>....
I get to draft! holy fuck, doing what i went to school to do........
Got to draw some elevations of an apartment building this week....
defstarsteve - 6-20-2008 at 05:44 PM
man I used to love drafting
I got a little scholarship thing for supplies out of high school but never persued it... I was pretty good back then, all pecil and paper too, no damn
computers
looks good bro, glad you like the new job
Jason the Magnificent - 6-20-2008 at 09:06 PM
Congrats!! What program are you using?
Working on Autocad 08, quikpen pipe design and quickpen duct design.
clevohardcore - 6-21-2008 at 12:17 AM
really cool. And CONGRATS
Dave - 6-21-2008 at 12:29 AM
AutoCAD 2007, that what i'm using right now, and im used to it....
Jason the Magnificent - 6-21-2008 at 06:53 AM
Yeah we just switched over to 08 because thats the base program for the quickpen 3d stuff. 08 is the biggest jump changewise acad has taken since
maybe 2000. lots of differences.
Dave - 6-21-2008 at 09:16 AM
really? i'll have to grab it, 09 is out now too
Jason the Magnificent - 6-21-2008 at 09:20 AM
getting my company to get new stuff is quite the endeavor...so we'll probably have 08 untill 2014. the only reason they upgraded this time is because
they needed it for the 3d duct/pipe packages. it is pretty sweet though, have the twin widescreen monitors now, feel like im at mission control.
upyerbum - 6-21-2008 at 11:36 AM
What are you running for your pipe/ductwork? We run CadWorx and its the best modelling software I've seen yet.
Congrats on the new job Dave, I kinda' cringed when you told me you were detailing rebar, but I didn't want to piss in your cornflakes.
Jason the Magnificent - 6-21-2008 at 01:08 PM
Quickpen for the duct/pipe. There were several different branches of quickpen over the past 15-20 years mostly DOS based but the past 5 or so years
they've put the application into ACAD to be a bit more current/user friendly. It's a nice package.
I don't know about the piping programs being better one over the other as all pipe is pretty much stock items you're welding/bolting together, but
most duct packages suck. They're basically for drawing 3D design/cartoons. Which is fine if you want to impress a client/general contractor with a 3D
model to use in navisworks, but most of their limitations in duct fittings prohibit an actuall sheet metal contractor from doing decent shop drawings
that you could list duct off of and install without the foreman having to consolidate items to save fittings and money.
There actually another 3D ducting package I'll have access to in the next year or so through the Sheet Metal International. Sheet Metal workers are
pretty much the only trade union whose contract states the detailers are to be union, most shops are mixed union and non because we usually can't
supply competant guys but they're trying to reclaim the market by issuing the program to sheet metal workers for free to install on top of your
companies ACAD application. We'll see how that goes.
Dave - 6-21-2008 at 03:22 PM
i got AutoCAD 2009 today, looks way different.......have to get use to it........ atleast for doing shit at home