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Thanks for the replies. I know I seem very negative here, its mostly just frustration with why it is a standard program to learn. I guess for a multipurpose application it makes sense to use, most of my frustration is because of that. The fact that it is used for everything is just cluttering my mind with endless controls, depending on the project I will have a schematic one day, then a house the next, then a mechanical part all in one week, there is no way I can actually store all of this. For each project there is something new to learn, some command I have not even heard of, then I have to remember it and how to use it all before I got comfortable with the last ones. We have to learn AutoCAD first, then the following semesters we use other programs like Revit, Inventor, and others not from Autodesk. After going through a semester of just AutoCAD it was not fun, but okay, now after using the others I'm like "why are we still using AutoCAD!?!".
One of the things that is ridiculously tedious is drawing circles, and any other type of lines or geometry, in a lot of other programs I could add as many circles as I could possibly want without having to click the keyboard 5x more than AutoCAD. Just simple things like having to press the escape button on everything and click probably 3 extra commands or buttons, keys, that is driving me nuts and slows me down.
I know I got spoiled by using other programs, among the six other Autodesk programs that I use this is the most difficult, time intensive for me so far.
@gotphish001I see your point. For some cases so far I can see how AutoCAD shines, but in specifics like building a house, I am not seeing the real benefit, at least yet.
"There's much more too it and that's where you will see the same types of frustrations that you have with autocad in a program like Revit when you get into the finer details." This is where the "yet" comes in I guess haha. But building a WHOLE HOUSE in AutoCAD, why? I would imagine it would be at least easier to build the basics in Revit and then export what you need to AutoCAD, for that I can see the use. It is like when I asked my instructor why I can't just build the model in a different program, he said I have to do it in AutoCAD to learn it, I feel as if this is making it more difficult.
I was Googling around not long ago and bumped into ArchiCAD, but I didn't look into it much, I am not one to stick to Autodesk or any company even if it is free for students, I have a few other programs that AutoCAD competes with but bought them because I like them more and they're easier to use. I suppose when you have bosses and professors that have used AutoCAD for 20+ years it doesn't help anything... I have to learn Civil3D next and knowing that is pretty much AutoCAD isn't going to be much fun