You’re right, there’s more to it than hanging extra doors. It’s going to cost money, which was my original statement, owners won’t do the renovations because it’s “too expensive” and keeping the status quo is cheaper.
What kinda work? I moved from electrical to RF systems, mainly CAD plan views of wireless reprating equipment, and equipment wall elevations for installation details. Sometimes I’m in revit coordination big jobs , currently doing MSG Sphere in Vegas. It fucking sucks.
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?”
oh crazy! i got into this cad work because i used to work in a machine shop haha. I went to school for manufacturing engineering but moved into CNC machinist. used to be pretty good with Mach3 and RhinoCAM haha. Even built a few machines myself. It led me to 3d Printing, naturally, since both share Gcode base language, which i learned in college. I still absolutely LOVE 3d printing. Its the only thing I’m confident saying I’m an expert in, except, i haven’t been paying attention to new machines for a while now.
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.”
It is a non-trivial process. Commercial offices and residential apartments have very different code requirements.
I’m all for doing it. I work from home myself and don’t know that I’ll ever take a job that requires a commute if I can help it.
We should be realistic about it, however, and acknowledge that it’s not as simple as throwing up a few walls and doors and calling it a day.
You’re right, there’s more to it than hanging extra doors. It’s going to cost money, which was my original statement, owners won’t do the renovations because it’s “too expensive” and keeping the status quo is cheaper.
Love your username
-bim/CAD manager
My condolences.
The good news is I manage Department of one, me. Currently
That’s sort of where I’m at. Only drafter in my department.
What kinda work? I moved from electrical to RF systems, mainly CAD plan views of wireless reprating equipment, and equipment wall elevations for installation details. Sometimes I’m in revit coordination big jobs , currently doing MSG Sphere in Vegas. It fucking sucks.
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?”
oh crazy! i got into this cad work because i used to work in a machine shop haha. I went to school for manufacturing engineering but moved into CNC machinist. used to be pretty good with Mach3 and RhinoCAM haha. Even built a few machines myself. It led me to 3d Printing, naturally, since both share Gcode base language, which i learned in college. I still absolutely LOVE 3d printing. Its the only thing I’m confident saying I’m an expert in, except, i haven’t been paying attention to new machines for a while now.
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.”