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10-25-2006, 02:26 PM
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#21 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kansas City, North, MO
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| I'm using AutoCAD 2004 but the school is downgrading me to 2002 because that's what I'm supposed to be using.  I like the 2004 version better. | 
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10-25-2006, 04:01 PM
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#22 | | Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hattiesburg, MS
Posts: 440
| thats weird cause my teacher said they have made a lot of changes!!! | |
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10-26-2006, 10:04 AM
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#23 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kansas City, North, MO
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| The books we have are for 2002 so I guess that's why I'm supposed to be using 2002.....idk. | |
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10-27-2006, 12:23 AM
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#24 | | Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 261
| 2002 is the evil!! And I used to think that 2004 sucked too!! Hahahahaha!
2006 is the way to go. But yeah. The worst ones are the AutoCAD LT programs. You can't do anything on those. You try to make a polygonal viewport & you're screwed. You try to insert certain types of images the the regular AutoCAD can use & you're screwed. The LT versions don't have the Dynamic Input feature. Drives me crazy. Hahahaha! ( ^o^) | |
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11-03-2006, 02:53 PM
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#25 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Monroe, WA
Posts: 104
| Tell me about it, lol! I've been using AutoCAD for over 14 years now, started with release 10 back in highschool & all the way up to 2004 now. My company stuck me with LT 2004 though, so no 3-d engine at all. I've convinced my boss that we need SOMETHING to do 3D images, so I've got a fresh copy of Rhino 4.0 to experiment with now.
Caden, to answer your question--
Absolute coordinates are points that never change, despite what you draw. So 0,0,0 is always 0 on the X axis, 0 on the Y axis, & 0 on the Z axis.
4,4,4 is a point 4 units horizontal, 4 units vertical, & 4 units "above" the 0,0,0 point.
Relative coordinates are points that are arrived at by starting from somewhere on your drawing. Say you have a line 20 units long. If you draw a new line starting from the end of the first one @5<90 you will get a line 5 units long & at a 90 degree angle from your original.
Anyway, hope it helps, good luck with your classes! | |
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11-04-2006, 12:58 AM
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#26 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 990
| Don't worry about that coordinate stuff. They just teatch it to you to show that it can be done. In the real world you will never use it.... lol
I have been a designer/Drafter for more than 6 years and I have never used that coordinate junk. In fact I forgot how to do it.... lol | |
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11-13-2006, 09:03 AM
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#27 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kansas City, North, MO
Posts: 3,028
| In the workplace you don't have to copy drawings or anything like that do you? Because I suck at that. I have to do that in class and I'm horrible. | |
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11-13-2006, 12:51 PM
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#28 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kansas City, North, MO
Posts: 3,028
| AutoCAD 2002 is the devil!! I don't like it. I'm stickin to 04 | |
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