CAD skills - how you rate yourselfs?

[cgfx]

just like to know more about the people working as arch vizer

 

i decided to take the advice given sometime ago, to improve my autocad skills to 'widen my role'

 

my question is: how/where would you guys rate yourself when comes to autocad skills?

 

do i need to reach the point where i can close my eyes and draw out the furniture details?

[ihabkal]

95% of the 3d Artists I met from Lebanon, to Egypt, USA and Canada, and especially the USA, don't know Autocad. I have seen 3d Artists tracing a 2d scan of a bridge in 3dsmax.

plus you can never know all the software, every year they come up with something new. The way I see it if you know only the tools necessary to produce what you want to produce, and the client is happy and paying, then goal achieved.

[Scott Schroeder]

It depends on what you want to do. I know AutoCAD well enough to use it for my purposes. Either create a rough set of plans, or to simply clean up client provided CAD to import into Max as guides for modeling.

 

If anything, my advice would be to get familiar with the basic commands of AutoCAD. Know how to draw rough floor plans, rough dimensions, and the commands/process for XREFS and what not.

 

To answer your question, I'm a master of the fundamentals of AutoCAD. Anything outside of the core basics, I need to usually use the Google or ask someone who uses AutoCAD daily.

[cgfx]

thanks for both your advices, velvet and ihabkal

 

it would seem that in the arch viz industry in my country are still consider in infancy stages - most of the time i did went for interview, the response i get is they are looking more towards a draft monkey (no offense intended)

 

i think i'll at least get a basic understanding on autocad, see how things works out

 

speaking of which, i heard of softwares like ArchiCAD or InteriCAD which are able to generate 2D drawings/sections/elevations as well as 3D perspectives in 1 go

 

anyone tried those before?

[Frosty]

speaking of which, i heard of softwares like ArchiCAD or InteriCAD which are able to generate 2D drawings/sections/elevations as well as 3D perspectives in 1 go

 

Basically, all BIM software does this.