CAD

Sorry little off topic but I figured maybe you guys might know. I was thinking about taking a CAD class at my school. Just curious what type of math skills I will need?

Thanks for any info.

Edited: 2/1/2006 11:41:22 AM by bdydrp18

all of them. but the beginner cad classes are very ez. all you do for the most part is copy what the teacher gives you. the more you take the more you well need the math. someday maybe you can do thissolidwork 2005

Edited: 2/1/2006 11:42:30 AM by bdydrp18

all to scale with movement and function. meant that the bars are all made to the right lenghts to keep the pinion angle at 0

^ hey can i steal your wheels for an assembly im working on?



its a work in progress on solidworks 04.

I'm the CAD manager for a civil engineering firm. Really I only regulaly use the basic mathmatics. But Geometry and trig can definatly come into play if say, I'm laying out a subdivision ore something. Or designing a suspension. Your first class will be very basic, like drawing circles & squares. HTH

I am a CAD technician for a Architectural Firm, I basically agree with all of them above, very basic stuff for the beginner class. But all in all math is pretty important in doing CAD work.
I would love to design a Frame and stuff like that, never worked with solidworks, we use 3D max and some of the basic autocad rendering stuff

math is easy anyways its just numbers and formulas. retarded monkeys can do it.

mostly addition. But it depends on what you are doing with it. I would say very little. the program will divide line equal for you and dimension for you. I think if you have to use a bunch of math then there is un-tapped commands and practices that you aren't using. I teach AutoCAD at Fresno State under CM

I think visualization and the abilty to picture items in 3 dimension is more important. You cant draw what you can visualize, it will be just lines.

Im a civil designer and work on CAD all day.
Done it for 7 years. Depending on the type of work you will do the math varies.
In my field you use several basic formulas...but nothing too major.

As far as for a career, it pays the bills but can get very boring.