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We were looking to add a 2nd seat to be shared by a few interns / jr engineers. Including $4k for the network license manager, the cost was $15k. For a single seat of SW Standard. image.png That's insane. There are people in lower level jobs in low cost of living areas that don't make that much in ...

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Printer already do that. That's the reason I only use Brother printers. It just works and toner lasts forever. Last one I had lasted 6 years. This one is on it's second. Had to buy it because DRFT 1001 needed a lot of stuff printed out where he would simulate sketches coming from an engineer I had ...

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Looks like we'll be ending our SolidWorks subscription this year after 10 years of subscription. Hoping it puts some pressure on them and that others will have the same reflex. The prices are ridiculous and so are the justifications for the increases. Here's the nice mail they sent me this afternoo...

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It appears from going on these internship hunts, a lot of people are using either Microstation or Open Roads in the area. Now don't get me wrong. A lot of people still use AutoCAD civil and AutoCAD itself. But you work Microstation, you can get okay work as all the state maps are done in it. Problem...

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Daughter was cranking out this song after the last 3rd semester final. I plan on not even LOOKING at AutoCAD for at least 2 weeks. Then this summer, I will begin looking at portfolios, straightening up linked in, knocking out 2 classes. Then Disciplines II, BIM and graduate in December! I am over th...

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Evil is around us all the time. Burning or hiding it won't make it go away. Knowledge is power. "The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks a...

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I feel bad, now. I have not picked up an actual non school or work related book in years. Mostly due to lack of free time especially with all this workload. I think the last books I read was I went off on a Robert Green kick for minute. I read both The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction A lot...

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https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/434593448_2787049824805179_508622762699224154_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=00Q06j3-FugAb5D_QVJ&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=03_AdU9tBKUyDPAbcI0Hd5vyW8XqJgeocoRfEt4EruPUtKzcw&oe=663BAE64 This is what it loo...

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Well, interview was on the 4th. Seems I was mistaken in my initial research and they do a lot of Civil. They also wanted me in person, not on MS Teams. Got in there early, and they were taken aback by my age for a minute. They expected someone in their 20s because I put no call center stuff on my re...

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Have an interview over MS Teams for a local architect firm with the vice president of the firm. She had gotten a resume from my instructor. Though I am not holding my breath. In previous industries, I have been ghosted and things not work out. Not sure how they do drafters. Or if they see a 50 year ...

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I've been on W11 for a while, and never noticed that. Thanks for pointing that out, that is a huge timesaver. I was forced to upgrade to W11 last spring. Pain in the @$$ and freaked me out. Also inconvenienced me since the wiring in my neighborhood is not the best (the wires here are cut and recut ...

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Good morning everyone and a happy new year to all of you! I hope you all had a great christmas time! Back to work this morning for me, those 2 weeks off were a blessing, now back to the big things! Went WAY too fast. Yes, back to the big things indeed! Going into 3rd semester. A few classes for Sum...

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Was browsing around the Solidworks Certification Tester website... Apparently they cant even keep the font consistent (Or did they intentionally make the font smaller, hoping that people could not see it? :)) image.png Interesting you are going that route. I have heard rumblings in various places a...

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SPerman Some of that stuff is still somewhat useful. For the Principles of Drafting class during spring, we had to do some old school stuff. I also used ruler, compass, and protractor to measure stuff for my final project in there. My instructor was telling me sometime around the 90s, people starte...

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Thinking back I cannot say that I can find a correlation between the demeanor/cordialness of a professor and their ability to teach. I have learned a lot from a couple that were just jerks, I've been in classes with the friendly, buddy type professor and those credits were a waste of time and money...

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Pipe is used everywhere. Every building has miles of pipes. Pipes under and around the building. HVAC is another "pipe". As much as I would be happy never to see a nozzle or slip on flange again after being traumatized last semester, I may very well select piping as one of them. Thinking ...

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Rough semester. Anyone who say "trade school is for flunkies" if I was not a pacifist, I would be tempted to slap. The courses this semester were HARD. BUT.. I ended up passing. C in speech only because I accidentally missed an assignment because of having to leave town for a sick elder an...

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Wanted to say, I figured out my solution. It was a font size issue then Tcircle. I feel like an idiot. What I did for my final drawings is make all the symbols before annotating and just copy/move as needed to show nozzels. Also solved an unrelated problem with text not lining up in blocks for thing...

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Building up the motivation to draw this complicated vessel and type out the P+ID final. They gave us weeks to do them on purpose. Complicated as hell with lots of ticky details. Don't want a repeat of last project when I turned in rushed work. But... procrastination is hard not to do. Probably start...

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I personally dislike all the spyware and such they put in smart TVs lately. I will take a monitor any day, though it's a bit more. I have a fairly large UHD monitor that I use for my school work. For a second, I tried an older 1080p flat screen I somehow acquired somewhere, but it looked like crap u...

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Are you working in Modelsapce or Paperspace? You have to be in paperspace to measure differently. If the file is export from SW or other CAD, it depends on export setting. All exports to modelspace. So if there are views with different scale, they will not be 1:1. This is in paper space. We export ...

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Probably on 3.5 floppy. If not 5.25. Might have some on backup tapes. have not seen a 5.25 since the Commodore 64. Still mad because an ancient ex-girlfriend's pet cat (that I ended up with when she left) clawed disk 6 or 7 of Pool of Radiance. That disk had the eastern side of the overworld around...

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Modelspace is always 1:1. If it's done any other way, fire that AutoCAD user. Paperspace is a "View", same as Solidworks and Inventor drawing. Just in the same file. Understood. I think I conveyed the wrong terminology. One of my biggest headaches that get me irritated is this: Sometimes ...

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My guess is that you are talking about a specific CAD program (Autocad maybe?). Nevermind. I finally read the last sentence. LOL. SO, autocad it is. Because Solidworks has a lot of these built in. It is AutoCAD. I also checked on r/cad and was admonished for "trying to get out of the basics of...

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Anyone have a link somewhere for circled letter and number libraries? I feel people on being hardcore, not lazy, and making your own blocks, but why reinvent the wheel when someone, somewhere probably has this? I am familiar with Tcircle command, but I would like quicker way to put this into paper s...

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I know it's probably "weird", but I have been really getting into some retro synthwave.

Really good for annotationland.

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Freedom comes with fences. You are free as long as you are within the boundaries of the fence. Without the fences anarchy ensues. Go outside the fence....you lose your freedom. For every good thing that we have, there is a fence to protect it. This includes our freedom. Yes, but what if the fence i...

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The marijuana laws in the US are crazy. Federal law says it is illegal everywhere. Several states say it is OK, but that doesn't mean the federal restriction disappears. In parts of the deep south, just mentioning drug use will get you black balled. The last place I worked tested pre-employment. Th...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:05 am "No more available"

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That might be the case Canada. I guarantee the US is different about it. If it is any consequence, I found out my state (Louisiana) just passed a law a while back that said that a positive for pot can not disqualify you if you have a valid medical card at least for state employment. I have also hea...

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Federal gov't jobs require testing because weed is still illegal by fed law. State laws vary. That's the issue I've had to deal with. For some employers its not a disqualification, just a flag to look for other possible issues. Alcohol isn't illegal but you can get fired for doing stupid stuff afte...

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Got down to 36 degrees last night. Have heaters going full blast and all three dogs in the bed. May not be bad compared to where some people are, but I live in a place where if even an inch of snow appears, they shut everything down and declare emergencies. Have like a project I need to finish that ...

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Been having a slight bit of an ethical quandary lately. Hopefully I will not have too much judgement. Or have people secretly in the illuminate of drafting dox me and put me on some black list for even bringing it up..LOL! I am almost halfway through my AAS in Drafting. Been doing REALLY well in cla...

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I currently use a Gigabyte laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 chip and Nvidia RTX 3060 laptop GPU. Running 64 GB RAM. Middle of 1st semester in my AAS program, had to upgrade from the lower range gaming laptop I had as ports were getting some corrosion in them and the build quality was not that good to be s...

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This may or may not help you as I am not familiar with that software, only autocad. Yes, you CAN create a pdf with most good CAD software. I do so each week. My drafting instructor says circles are the answer to everything. This could be one of a few things - The fillets (the curves) were not joined...

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"You two were in the locker room for 30 minutes. What were you doing?" More like "You m-f... you made me have to get up from being on Facebook by spending more than 6 minutes pooping!" or "The director called from his mansion in his jacuzzi because he had the camera to the ...

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As much as sometimes I forget keys and things and used to hate at my last job having to press something on my phone to be let into my company email, HELL NO if I put some metal chunk in my body for a corporation. Too many companies already are getting a bit too intrusive. Keyloggers on your personal...

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Looked at it. Seems they want Solidworks, which I have not been over in my college yet. Nor could I relocate just yet because I need to finish this AA. Also aerospace. I saw some aerospace jobs in Alabama near Huntsville, but if it's anything like that they probably want a 4 year degree, no AAs. A r...

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I'm glad I don't make my living turning knobs on machines, but it's fun to make a pile of chips from time to time. Used to have one of those type gigs for about a year or two at a food plant. Except I was a production helper, not the knob turner (err.. machine operator) I got to watch the guys turn...

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With wood, depends on what kind of wood. When I helped my dad make furniture for arts and craft shows, pine is the cheapest, lightest and easiest to work with at the expense of durability and the fact you have to pay very close attention to knots and grain. You also hopefully have access to the equi...

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A friend of a coworker went to work at Spacex about a decade ago. He said they were expected to work stupid hours, and the pressure was insane. Any level of failure would result in termination. But when you are passionate about something, none of that matters. I'm sure the ones who survive are lovi...

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and, elmo musk? Ah.. the Muskrat.. That guys is almost Theranos level of bullshit. Especially with "full self driving" that isn't even full self driving. But you can't call the bullshit because dude has an army of simps online in a lot of places. Even truthful negative. I mean, seriously....

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https://nationalpost.com/news/world/humanoid-robots-say-they-could-be-better-leaders-but-they-will-not-rebel-against-human-creators Robots told reporters Friday they could be more efficient leaders than humans, but wouldn’t take anyone’s job away and had no intention of rebelling against their crea...

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Go with Revit, I've never heard of Plant 3D. Plant 3D is an extension of AutoCAD. Instructor says it is used in a lot of oil and gas and various chemical plants in the area. For example: BASF, Exxon. https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad/included-toolsets/autocad-plant-3d But still, I am with y...

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Had a good email exchange with the department head about going forward. It appears 4th and final semester, I have a choice between Plant 3D and Revit. Revit, I have been told by various engineers in my outer social circle is the more valuable program. One is a chemical engineer at a plastics plant, ...

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Not soon enough. Hopefully that will hold up for a few years. I actually want a non abusive, living wage job once I get out of this college! (Though these non trade electives get on my nerves. I literally have a Professor "Karen" for one of the social science electives I can't stand.) But...

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So far, I think we are pretty safe. I have done a bit of research into this, and the only person even somewhat adjacent to the field I have seen is a youtuber called the AI Wizard that attempted to do RPG maps using Stable Diffusion. The thing he was running into was that 90 percent of the maps were...

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We need you to jump into this pool of bubbling chemical and see what happen. They actually have that. Fortunately, it's an OSHA cert that you have to have confined space training and they usually at least have to empty the bubbling chemicals and give you suits and respirators. Fortunately, they giv...

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You might try DungeonScrawl (Free) or DungeonDraft ($20), works much better than Autocad. :D Although I admit when I was in school I used Autocad R10 to draw character sheets. It was the early 90s though so options were limited then. I believe DungeonDraft has the option to export /import to Roll20...

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Drafter is also a dime a dozen. Offshore charge $7 an hr. Or less. Do look at local job sites and see what they got. 3D printing is another area that need 3D modeler. Basically you can make what you can model. There is always manufacturing, always construction. For architectural, yeah. The instruct...

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