{"id":4369,"date":"2012-04-27T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2012-04-28T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T23:03:47","slug":"free-cad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Free Cad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=4370\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4370\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4370\" title=\"Cad 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cad-2012.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cad-2012.png 518w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cad-2012-440x432.png 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cad-2012-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve been talking Cad <a title=\"a few Cad posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?s=draftsight\" target=\"_blank\">recently<\/a>, after doing a flip-flop and reverting back from DraftSight to a <a title=\"experience my joy at using AutoCad 2013 LT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=4333\" target=\"_blank\">new license<\/a> of AutoCad Lt.<\/p>\n<p>In what appears to be a battle to get more users, Draft Sight has stepped up their marketing by adding value to their product, and put out a &#8216;Getting Started Guide&#8217; for free, via their <a title=\"Getting Started in DraftSight? Give this a whirl.\" href=\"http:\/\/emailing.3ds.com\/dsx\/lpv2.jssp?template=LDP1570&amp;refcode=\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So if you were looking to try using Cad for the first or maybe second time, Dassault Systemes, makers of <a title=\"download draftsight - it's free!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.3ds.com\/products\/draftsight\/free-cad-software\/features\/\" target=\"_blank\">DraftSight<\/a>, have just made it that little bit easier.<\/p>\n<p>AutoCad, by contrast, still uses a web-based help tool accessed from within the program, augmented by the tonnes of user forums that answer specific user questions, both hosted on their own site and found on many others. Not to mention many actual paper publications written on the topic over the years.<\/p>\n<p>I taught myself AutoCad on-the-job in the early 00&#8217;s, (admittedly after a couple of long-forgotten lessons at uni, and of course having relative proficiency in <a title=\"Archicad's wikipedia page\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ArchiCAD\" target=\"_blank\">ArchiCad<\/a> learned at my previous employers) and even then it was easy to Google an issue to figure out how to make the thing do as was required. Now of course there are YouTube videos and online tutorials to help out, which show you exactly how to performs certain tasks, and offer useful tips and tricks. Very handy if you&#8217;ve just, say, updated your copy of Cad, and would like to find out what the new tools are. Especially handy if said new tools replace a whole bunch of hit-and-miss calculations that you used to have to perform in your head and on the page to get a design to work &#8216;just so&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cad cad cad cad cad cad cad. AutoCad. DraftSight Cad. Cad cad cad cad cad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewellery-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4387,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}