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am in AEC, not mechanical, but it seems to me you should be using Autodesk
Inventor, not Autocad, to even BEGIN to be competitive. Solidworks is
impressive,and was the leadder not long ago, but I hear Inventor's tie to
Autocad is making it outsell. I looked up CADRA (had never heard of it)-- did
not impress at 1st glance. I had a class in Inventor at AU2001-- the interface
was admired by everyone, and is affecting new releases of other products. Have
the firm check out an upgrade to the package that has Inventor and Mechanical
Desktop. Look it up, download trials, show to bosses (Inventor is fun to
watch). Look for the Lynn Allen demo on it. Try not to let them waste your
time and their money learning to do this in Autocad -- they might end up
firing you when they see they are not competitive next year. Bob PS--Classes
can be well worth the money.
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am a rather newbie to the world of CAD. Everything I have learned I have
learned on the fly or second hand. I have recently been put in a design
position (as I have the most Autocad experience) when we lost our designer. We
are also going to be going from the CADRA enviroment to AUTOCAD. We are a
toolroom that maintains progressive stamping tools. So here is my dilema
(excuse my spelling). I have no idea where I can get any add on programs to
for die design. Have been surfing the net and picking up stuff here and there,
but drawing an entire tool the long way is just a pain in the butt. So I
figure I could ask all you wondeful people here for some pointers. Any help
you all could give me would be MORE than appreciated.
Thanks