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Post by AlanC on Apr 7, 2020 11:27:08 GMT -5
I just can't help it.
AutoCAD is so GDMF'n aggrevating! All I needed to do was copypaste some text and leaders from one drawing into another. Simple. Done it 10,000 times. Both of them in model space. Layers not frozen or off. Matching grid coordinates. No problem, right? Only they just KEPT F'N DISAPPEARING EVERY G.D.M.F'N TIME!!! I can hardly get thru a full working day without telling AutoCAD how much I F'N HATE THE G.D. STUPID F'N WAY IT KEEPS DOING INEXPLICABLE THINGS!!
Anyway, I am trying not to lose my mind and go into full blown Donald Duck flip-my-shit mode when I hear the F350 crank up and drive away.
I guess she is heading for Number 1 Daughter's to seek refuge. Working with AutoCAD in a 5th wheel camper is a challenge. Scratch that. Living with an old grouch in a 5th wheel camper who works at the table with C3D AutoCAD is difficult.
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Post by fauxmaha on Apr 7, 2020 11:30:52 GMT -5
Leaves me questioning the term "Auto".
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Post by Marshall on Apr 7, 2020 11:43:18 GMT -5
I say many bad words when working in AutoCADD. For decades I've used quick key commands to do what I want. L for line. CO for copy. etc. I type with my left hand and right-click my mouse hand, which is supposed to be the "return" key. Worked that way for decades. Like lightning. But the latest version automatically pops up some screen menus when you enter a command. They're slow. So, I hit the right click thinking I'm blitzing to the next level of what I want to do. But the fancy new version is busy doing some meaningless (to me a 30 year user) bullshit instead of executing my command like it did for 30 years. So, before I know it, I'm deep into a command side alley I don't want to be down. So in frustration, I hit escape, escape, escape to back out of whatever dark hole it's put me in. But if I hit too many of "escapes" it pulls up my browser and goes to an AutoCADD help page; which I have cuss at, close that program and find my way back to where I was and start all over again. . . , nice . . . , and . . . , slow . frosts my ass. I used to be lighting fast on these commands. Now they've thrown all sorts of meaningless bullshit in the way for me to trip over.
I hear ya, dude.
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Post by Russell Letson on Apr 7, 2020 11:46:39 GMT -5
Ah--AutoCAD, that's the problem. If Alan were using the TrailerCAD release--or even the cheaper TableCAD release--all would be fine. You can't be too careful about versions these days. (I suspect that there's a working-environment sensor buried in the dongle somewhere.)
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Post by millring on Apr 7, 2020 11:51:12 GMT -5
Technology's principle function is to make us feel stupid.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 7, 2020 11:53:01 GMT -5
Technology's principle function is to make us feel stupid. No, no, no. It's to PISS US OFF !
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Post by Dub on Apr 7, 2020 11:53:57 GMT -5
I have a full sized tilting drawing board suitable for use with a drafting machine that you’d be welcome to have.  |
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Post by Marshall on Apr 7, 2020 11:56:44 GMT -5
Oh, I started on one of those. Still have my triangles and lead pointer. SKUM-X anyone?  |
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Post by Marshall on Apr 7, 2020 12:07:44 GMT -5
I have a full sized tilting drawing board suitable for use with a drafting machine that you’d be welcome to have. Actually that was too fancy. We always used a straight edge on cables.  Nobody I knew had one of the expensive fancy machines you show. |
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Post by brucemacneill on Apr 7, 2020 12:30:14 GMT -5
I grew up on the straight edge and cable system. When I worked for Massachusetts DPW they had those fancy drafting machines. Took a little getting used to.
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Post by amanajoe on Apr 7, 2020 13:53:58 GMT -5
I have a full sized tilting drawing board suitable for use with a drafting machine that you’d be welcome to have. Mine was a fine Alvin wooden one with their top of the line drafting machine. All of my engineers had them. It was cheaper than hiring a full time draftsman. Ink on vellum, those were the days. I was rooting through my stuff a few weeks ago and found my Alvin and Koh-I-Noor technical pens and my Alvin lead holder along with a Staedler pointer. If you understood any of that, boy you're old just like me. |
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Post by dradtke on Apr 7, 2020 14:36:26 GMT -5
Actually that was too fancy. We always used a straight edge on cables. Nobody I knew had one of the expensive fancy machines you show. Same. It's in the garage behind fourteen other things last time I saw it. |
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Post by dradtke on Apr 7, 2020 14:38:31 GMT -5
Every time Autocad gets something right that works well, they gotta go in and fuck it up.
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Post by AlanC on Apr 7, 2020 15:50:37 GMT -5
Every time Autocad gets something right that works well, they gotta go in and fuck it up. My brother. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 7, 2020 17:22:12 GMT -5
Back to the post. It was nice Sunday, I took the doors off the Jeep and went on a drive. After I took the garbage to the end of the lane.  |
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