Autocad 2009

[Scooter Montgomery]

We just got it in our office. Is anybody on the DMF using it and could you recommend a good tutorial book? We just heard that the training center we go to won't have class on it until August. Looks like we are on our own.  It looks a lot different from the Autocad 2000 its replacing. 

Bob

[ODrides]

I remember when Autocad 2000 was the new revolution.  That was 9 years ago, so at least they got the math right!  They're never THAT much different, though, are they?

[Scooter Montgomery]

Still comes down to lines, circles and text.

[Speedbag]

Use Inventor instead. 

[wbeck257]

Can't be much differnt than 08.

I miss Cad. I'm tired of this GIS bullshit.

[Speeddog]

I remember when Autocad 2000 was the new revolution. 
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I remember AutoCAD R10. 

Didn't your '09 AutoCAD come with any books?
In my experience, the official books are a little better than a doorstop, but at least it's something.

Google?

[wbeck257]

Okay, now I have something to say about this beside pregnant doging about my current job...

I have about 15 differnt AutoCAD books around my house. 10 of them are paperweights or jackstands. The other 5 are written by Sham Tickoo. They are the good ones.

Here is his 2009 book at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/AutoCAD-2009-Problem-Solving-Approach/dp/143540257X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213828618&sr=1-2

[Scooter Montgomery]

Thanks that is the type of recommondation I was looking for. 

Nothing worse than dropping $40-$50 on a crappy book.

I started on Release 9 in high school. Boy I need a new line of work.

[wbeck257]

Yeah, I think I started w/ R9 too.
Its been so long, I can't remember.

One thing is though there is ways to turn off some of the new shit and still work the program from the command line.I learned on the command line, and I'm faster with it then I'll ever be searching for a little friggin button.

So in a sense you can kind of downgrade the program, but still have the functionality of all the new tools. And really I haven't seen anything that new and impressive in the last few releases. Just a lot of improvements in design sharing, colaberation, etc. However they did really improve trim and extend to the point where I got an Autodesk boner...

But yeah, check out the Tickoo books. I'm interested to see if my company will upgrade from 2007. My side of the business has gotten away from CAD and gone to GIS, but there probably is still a need for some of the actual drafters that are left.

[erkishhorde]

You can turn off the new junk? Crap... When 2006 came out I noticed that they make the beast with two backsed with how it remembers your last commands and that really slowed me down. You know how using the up arrow repeats the last command. Well around 2006 they made it so that instead of remember the EXACT command it remembered the locations of what your drew instead of some random thing like that and it was annoying as hell. I could never figure out what the feature was called to turn that off either. 

Meh, at least you're not making the jump from AutoCAD to Revit. The ARCE department at Cal Poly SLO is switching slowly and it's a bit painful since Revit still isn't totally up to specs yet. At least in Revit 2009 you can have 2 line text in your dimensions and do text overrides on dimensions.  It's about time...

[DCXCV]

What sort of work do you do with AutoCAD?  I don't know how much the 3D portion has changed since 2000 since I don't use it much, but the basic stuff is still damn near identical (I'm on 2008 right now).  The nice thing about the '07 and up versions is that it can pull your old settings - I hated having to input or manually copy everything with every upgrade. 

They give you a book with AutoCAD?     I don't think I've looked at one since I was using R12 and a digitizer board in highschool.