Topic: Signs of an Untrained CAD Person

[JCTER]

creating blocks with really BAD insertion points
and stupid names

What a richard.

[Krushert]

I don't like when I get client titleblocks that need multiple TT fonts installed just to get it to look right.

Must of gotten one of our drawings.  I can not get the bosses to buy into playing nice with others.

[CottageCGirl]

oh, my personal favorite..
and entire electrical plan done on one layer.......

(defpoints....)


slaps forehead..........



"why is it blank?"

[Matt__W]

Changing BASE to 30,0 instead of leaving it alone.   

[alanjt]

Rotating entire drawing instead of rotating view.

[Biscuits]

Creating anonymus blocks through copying and pasting to new files and perpetuating the problem over a ten year period.
Argh!!

[mjfarrell]

Changing BASE to 30,0 instead of leaving it alone.   

^X30^

[dgorsman]

Getting a drawing with 20 different text and dimension styles with names like "Dave1" and "Roger13".

Users who when told "Move the solid so the center is at the WCS origin" respond with "How do I move it?" and "Where do I move it to?"

[mjfarrell]

not using the 'fillet' command to create fillets

[danallen]

Just had a 'trained' user 'correct' base to be 0,0 except they didn't know they were in local UCS...

another user - hey where did the RCP go?

Changing BASE to 30,0 instead of leaving it alone.   

[jonesy]

When a user decides to delete objects from model space, put them in paperspace, and try (and not be able to) figure out why when it gets inserted as a block, no objects appear

[Didge]

I give all our CAD recruits a quick draughting test immediately after their interviews, to date 75% fail this very simple test for many of the reasons already given, plus a few more.

1. Draughting by eye; I've been amazed by the number of applicants who can't draw a line of an exact length, instead they watch the coordinates in the taskbar until they get it almost right.  They usually fudge dimensions to cover-up.

2. Failing to use snaps correctly; a real pain when trying to hatch boundaries or dimension.

3. Not inserting mapping xrefs at 0,0.

4. And in 3D modelling terms, copying objects within a drawing rather than blocking & re-inserting them.

<Rant mode cancel>

[Chris]

not using the 'fillet' command to create fillets

when dealing with large coordinates and polyines, a lot of the time I have found the fillet command does not fillet the segments, so I must use a circle, with a couple of lines from center to perpendicular and then trim.

[Rob...]

We work with an arcitect that is still putting their title blocks in model space and using part plans.

[Dinosaur]

At my previous job, it was the initials "LNB" or "KNB" on the Drawn By line of the title block.