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          21 year ago

          I got started with Autocad drawings of precast concrete buildings. Now I work for a machine shop that refurbishes big valves, and it’s equal parts boring and amazing. Some days I don’t do anything at all. And some days someone will drop some broken and bent part of something on my desk, and say “Can you figure out what this used to look like, and make a cad model of it, so we can get this fixed?”

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              21 year ago

              My CAD journey started in a fabrication shop. I ran a CNC laser, and sometimes parts had a feature in the wrong place, or a hole that was the wrong size. I learned how to make adjustments in Sigmanest, and then learned to make my own 2D cad files. I took a couple of classes in manual drafting (paper and pencils) and another couple of classes in Solidworks. I taught myself autocad after being hired to detail reinforcement in precast concrete parts.

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          11 year ago

          My job mostly consists of “Here’s 40 pounds of bent and broken stuff. Figure out what it used to look like, and make us models and drawings of the parts.”