Someone Slap Me
Jul. 30th, 2007 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillAnd tell me to stop being Emo. It’s not helping. It never helps.
Much like turning into a snake . . .
Today at work, I retaught myself how to use AutoCAD. AutoCAD is, as far as I can tell, a program that was invented way back when computers were just getting good enough to show graphics. It’s basically a drafting program, made for 2D schematics. And it works really really well, for 2D schematics.
Then someone figured out that computers can also do 3D drawings, and to keep up, everyone else in the industry had to make programs that work in 3D. Some, like ProDesktop, did this very well.
AutoCAD did not.
And you’d think they learned from their mistakes and make the next release better than the previous, so that within a few release-generations it’s actually a halfway decent program. What they did instead was add more functions. The problem with this is that it doesn’t need more functions, just better ones.
It’s an insanely difficult program to use for anyone who has never taken a drafting class, and the thing is: our parents took drafting classes. In college. We? Took CAD classes. In high school.
I’m lucky. The first 3D modeling program I ever learned, way back in Intro to CAD, was AutoCAD course. Intermediate and advanced CAD courses used ProDesktop, with good reason. But, as I say, I’m lucky. I knew where to start, at least.
Then I spent two hours goofing off. I would have been doing work but for the fact that the lab laptop, on which I would have been doing said work, seems to have walked off. There really wasn’t anything else to be doing, as everyone but myself, the interns, and the lab tech had wandered off to a meeting in Warren (an hour away). We’ll probably find tomorrow that they took the lab laptop, because it is a laptop.
Also, an announcement: I am a bone marrow donor match. \o/ I will be donating to a 10-year-old girl at the end of August.
And Nai? CW is lurking in my head, but he’s still refusing to do anything without Enki in tow. >.> So we need to RP them some fluff, yes?
Much like turning into a snake . . .
Today at work, I retaught myself how to use AutoCAD. AutoCAD is, as far as I can tell, a program that was invented way back when computers were just getting good enough to show graphics. It’s basically a drafting program, made for 2D schematics. And it works really really well, for 2D schematics.
Then someone figured out that computers can also do 3D drawings, and to keep up, everyone else in the industry had to make programs that work in 3D. Some, like ProDesktop, did this very well.
AutoCAD did not.
And you’d think they learned from their mistakes and make the next release better than the previous, so that within a few release-generations it’s actually a halfway decent program. What they did instead was add more functions. The problem with this is that it doesn’t need more functions, just better ones.
It’s an insanely difficult program to use for anyone who has never taken a drafting class, and the thing is: our parents took drafting classes. In college. We? Took CAD classes. In high school.
I’m lucky. The first 3D modeling program I ever learned, way back in Intro to CAD, was AutoCAD course. Intermediate and advanced CAD courses used ProDesktop, with good reason. But, as I say, I’m lucky. I knew where to start, at least.
Then I spent two hours goofing off. I would have been doing work but for the fact that the lab laptop, on which I would have been doing said work, seems to have walked off. There really wasn’t anything else to be doing, as everyone but myself, the interns, and the lab tech had wandered off to a meeting in Warren (an hour away). We’ll probably find tomorrow that they took the lab laptop, because it is a laptop.
Also, an announcement: I am a bone marrow donor match. \o/ I will be donating to a 10-year-old girl at the end of August.
And Nai? CW is lurking in my head, but he’s still refusing to do anything without Enki in tow. >.> So we need to RP them some fluff, yes?
