Wednesday, November 25, 2009

AutoCAD Skills for Civil 3D: Part 1

Folks, you don't need to be an AutoCAD guru before you learn Civil 3D 2010. However, you do need to know some basics or you will get lost, frustrated and/or confused when working in Civil 3D.

Lately, I've been teaching a lot of Microstation/Caice users how to use Civil 3D - and finding that the best approach is to spend at least a day focusing on just the AutoCAD side of things.

The following is part one of my 10-part series AutoCAD Skills for Civil 3D.

The document is called 10 AutoCAD skills, but that's a bit of a misnomer. It is more like 10 general topics to be aware of.

Enjoy.

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2 comments:

Kevin Clark P.E. said...

How has it been teaching the microstation users? I have found they are happy with all the new capabilities.

Louisa Holland said...

The biggest thing is getting them used to the click-order change. Microstation assumes you are in a command until you change tools. AutoCAD takes you back to the command line when a task is done. Some people love it. Some people whine a little, then get over it.