Re: Newbie

[Michael Kelem]

I'm new to Cadintosh-and any cad program for that matter. Does
anybody know of good tutorials (outside of the home building exercise
in the instructions) that would help me with my simple engineering
drawings for my machinist? I hate to go back to cocktail napkins.
Thanks,
Michael

[RowlandCarson]

At 2006-07-07 03:51 -0700 Michael Kelem wrote:

>Does
>anybody know of good tutorials

Michael - this is a question that has come up before on this forum,
and it looks like there is an opening for someone to create a
"how-to" guide like the one Hagen Henke has made for Thorsten's other
really useful software, GraphicConverter.

I know I found changing from a "MacDraw" (or OmniGraffle for newer
readers) environment (where you do everything with the mouse) to a
CAD environment (where you need to key in numbers much more) quite
difficult at first. (In comparison, TurboCAD for Mac does seem as
though it would be easier to learn for folks more familiar with
mouse-drawing; that's my own feeling and may not be entirely fair as
I'd got a lot of time on CADintosh before TCfM came out, and so
didn't need training in the "CAD" mindset.) Any how-to guide would
probably only be useful for one application, and so would have a
restricted market.

One of the contributors, Tkat, did make some very useful postings
which were "recipies" for doing various engineering-type things. You
might find it worthwhile to look in the list archives for his
messages with subject lines including "Chap 1" to "Chap 4", during
April & May 2005, and some of the later follow-ups to those messages.

Hope this helps.

regards

Rowland
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[Michael Kelem]

Hi Rowland,

Thanks for the advice. I had TurboCad a long time ago and it went
away-I didn't know it had returned. The software world for mac is
funny like that.

I'll track down these earlier posts and see what I can find out. Your
drawings are also helpful/inspirational as well.

Best regards,

Michael

On Jul 7, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Rowland Carson wrote:

> At 2006-07-07 03:51 -0700 Michael Kelem wrote:
>
> >Does
> >anybody know of good tutorials
>
> Michael - this is a question that has come up before on this forum,
> and it looks like there is an opening for someone to create a
> "how-to" guide like the one Hagen Henke has made for Thorsten's other
> really useful software, GraphicConverter.
>
> I know I found changing from a "MacDraw" (or OmniGraffle for newer
> readers) environment (where you do everything with the mouse) to a
> CAD environment (where you need to key in numbers much more) quite
> difficult at first. (In comparison, TurboCAD for Mac does seem as
> though it would be easier to learn for folks more familiar with
> mouse-drawing; that's my own feeling and may not be entirely fair as
> I'd got a lot of time on CADintosh before TCfM came out, and so
> didn't need training in the "CAD" mindset.) Any how-to guide would
> probably only be useful for one application, and so would have a
> restricted market.
>
> One of the contributors, Tkat, did make some very useful postings
> which were "recipies" for doing various engineering-type things. You
> might find it worthwhile to look in the list archives for his
> messages with subject lines including "Chap 1" to "Chap 4", during
> April & May 2005, and some of the later follow-ups to those messages.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> regards
>
> Rowland
> --
> | Wilma & Rowland Carson http://home.clara.net/rowil/
> | ... that's Rowland with a 'w' ...
>
>