I am new with autocad so please bare with me. Do you need to have an auto cad file sent to you to view and edit it? Is it possible to open a tif or gif or pdf flie with autocad and make your adjustments and do your take offs? I was also thinking about and autocad lt program as I dont need the who lets build a house thing.
I would appreciate any information you can give. Thank you.
2007-04-13 16:32:42 · 3 answers · asked by escape_pinacolada 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
We were all newbies at one stage. So there are no dumb questions.
If you are onlly using it to measure then probably LT would be the way to go.
If your components are placed into a drawings as a blocks and you have to count these blocks, to prepare a BOM (bill of materials) you will have to run a Lisp or Vba program that only full blown Autocad would be required to count these blocks. to place a $ value against these components, and these can be exported out to a excel file.
Tiff & gifs can be imported into full blown Autocad but can't be manipulated. With the exception of resizing.
Pdf's can be cracked and imported back into dwg file. but apart from print it off to a full size , and measuring it with a scale ruler.
The only other problems you may encounter if working with dwg files.
The drawing versions.
If you have a autocad 2004 and the drawing was save in 2006 then there will be a problem opening the drawing.
It will open a later version of the drawing but older versions of autocad will not open the newer drawing files.
There is a program available from dwgateway.com that will allow you Convert the drawing to the current version you are using.
The other pet gripe I have is Xref's that go into making up the drawing. They alway forget to send the external reference drawings. That went into making that drawing up..
I hope this has been some help
2007-04-15 16:08:24 · answer #1 · answered by Icepick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the contractor gives you pdf, tiff, or just plain hard copies, having autocad is pretty worthless, since you cannot edit them. If however you do get the files in autocad format from the contractor then having the software might be useful.
The software package is quite expensive and it does take some time to learn. If you haven any questiosn send me an email at abizareaf@yahoo.com
2007-04-15 11:27:50 · answer #2 · answered by abizareaf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh... AutoCAD costs in the range of 5 to 10000 dollars.
Even the limited AutoCAD LT costs $999
On the other hand, there is a 30-day trial version of AutoCAD LT. I imagine you don't need it for THAT long, do you?
2007-04-13 16:54:27 · answer #3 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋