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Most of the equipment is furnished in class. Click on your class below to see exactly what you need. - Intro Class
Friday, 11 January 2008What type of equipment do I need for the Intro class?
- You will need 4 wooden drawing pencils.
- HB (or a #2 pencil)
- H
- 2H
- 4H
- An eraser - Pink Pearl or a White
- A 12"/millimeter ruler.
- A compass
- A calculator that will perform Trig functions (Sine, Cosine, Tangent)
- You will need a three ring binder to keep in class to keep your notes and drawings in.
The pencils and erasers can be purchased at the Wheeler Dealer School Store. Last Updated Sunday, 27 December 2009100,00% of 1 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ  useful  not useful - Advanced Classes
Friday, 11 January 2008Advanced Classes
You will need to purchase a set of mechanical pencils.
All can have 2H lead.
- An eraser
- Architecture students will need an Architect's Scale
- Engineering students will need an Engineer's Scale
- A calculator that can perform trig functions (Sine, Cosine and Tangent).
- A three ring binder to keep your notes in.
- A USB flash drive.
Last Updated Sunday, 27 December 2009100,00% of 2 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful Standards for various projects. - Multimedia Presentations
Sunday, 27 December 2009Backgrounds
- Avoid deep,dark or bright, light backgounds
- Background should be consistent throughout presentation
Font
- Minimum font size of 24
- Use a san serif font (Arial, Verbana or Franklin Gothic Book)
- Text color should contrast with background. Black is usually safe to use.
Title slide
- Name of presentation
- Authors' names
- Class
- Date
Transitions & animations
- No more than 2 different slide transitions
- Text animations should be calm. Not distracting from presentation
- Be consistant throughout presentation
Content
- You can not read your slides. Use the slide to introduce what you are going to say.
- Think in terms of information units. Each slide should have 5 - 9 information units.
- Each color, image and row of text is an information unit.
Bibliography
- All information that is not original shoudl be referenced
- Use the MLA citation style. See www.wheelerlibrary.com for more information.
- Cite authors name on slide
- Last slide should be a bibliography page
Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Blog Postings
Sunday, 27 December 2009Blog postings should have the following components:
- Title that is relevant to your article
- If this is a group blog, your last name should be included in the title
- Write in first person with a conversational tone.
- Article should have an introduction, body and closing. Think essay.
- Each article should have an appropriate graphic image. This can be a photograph, a scanned iamge or a CAD image. Be sure to crop and resize the image before uploading it.
Your article should be interesting and informative. Most of the weekly postings should be about the drawing you are working on. Describe your challenges, how you overcame them, what did you learn and what would you do differently. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful
- What is Drafting?
Monday, 14 January 2008What is Engineering Drawing & Design or "Drafting"?
Drafting is a form of Graphic Communication or using visual material to relate an idea.
Specifically, Drafting is considered Technical Drawing. It is a means of clearly and concisely communicating all of the information necessary to transform an idea or a concept in to reality.
We use drawing tools (pencil, scales, T-square and triangles) or CADD software (AutoCAD, Inventor and Revit) to create engineering and architectural drawings. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 1999100,00% of 2 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - CADD
Monday, 14 January 2008What is CAD or CADD?
CAD is an abbreviation for Computer-Aided Drafting.
CADD is an abbreviation for Computer-Aided Drafting and Design Last Updated Monday, 29 November 1999100,00% of 2 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - What courses are there?
Monday, 14 January 2008What Drafting Courses are there?
Engineering Drawing Pathway
- Introduction to Engineering Drawing and Design
- Survey of Engeering Graphics
- 3D Modeling and Analysis
- Technical Manufacturing
Architectural Drawing Pathway
- Introduction to Engineering Drawing and Design
- Architectural Drawing and Design 1
- Architectural Drawing and Design 2
- Structural Detailing
- Civil Engineering Drawing
See the Course Descriptions for content and pre-requisites for each course. Last Updated Saturday, 04 July 20090% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Syllabus
Thursday, 22 January 2009The Syllabi for all courses are included in the Course Descriptions. See the Top Menu Bar to access these. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful
Here is a collection of tips & shortcuts that I have assembled to help you with using Inventor. Some are original and some are links to various blogs.
- Work Features
Thursday, 02 October 2008Work Features
Autodesk Inventor: Work It! - July 2008
In this article, I'll explain the concept of Work Features in Autodesk Inventor. Work features are conceptual construction geometries, used when the geometry is insufficient to create new features. Work features include work planes, work axes, and work points.
Last Updated Saturday, 11 October 20080% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Tolearnces
Thursday, 02 October 2008Adding Tolerances to an Autodesk Inventor Model Sketch (Avatech Tricks Tutorial)
http://manufacturing.cadalyst.com/manufacturing/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=546062
The more information that's stored in your model, the more robust the model becomes.
Many of you may already use the model iProperties to automatically fill in your title blocks and Vault/Productstream databases, but you might not be taking advantage of using tolerances in the model. The more information that's stored in the model, the more robust the model becomes. By taking the time and effort to add tolerances to your model, you can gain many advantages down the road. In this article, I will be discussing two of them: interference checking and drawing dimensions. I will place a tolerance on a shaft diameter, change the model to maximum material condition to see what effect that will have on my assembly, and then bring that pre-defined tolerance into the drawing. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Adaptivity
Monday, 13 October 2008Adaptivity is one of the pieces of core Inventor functionality that sets it apart from almost every other design system sold today, however it is also one of the least understood. Today I want to show you a little exercise in adaptivity, and in the process show you a perfect example of where it is best employed… for part level geometry changes based on assembly relationships.
http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/blogs/blog/view/4/You_Must_Adapt/
Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Hidden line visibility
Monday, 13 October 2008I am not sure if anyone remembers or not, but one of my first posts last year was on the importance of setting the visibility environment “correctly”. For most of you I am sure wireframe display in Inventor gets used rarely if ever. There are times however when it is imperative, and quite frankly, the only way to achieve certain tasks.
http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/blogs/blog/view/4/as_clear_as_mud/ Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Inventor Studio Image Output
Friday, 17 October 2008
Rendering Images
In last month's article, I discussed the various software products that can be used for documenting your designs. Please keep in mind that these are products that are purchased at a cost. There are other similar products available as freeware and can be obtained through a search on Google. The products that I recommended are the ones that I use and have found them to be well worth the money.
Click here to read it on the AUGI website. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Documenting your Design
Friday, 17 October 2008How to document your design in a user manual
When I started designing things more than 40 years ago, our options were limited when it came to documenting those designs. We had blueprints and typewriters and that was pretty much it. The blueprints were fairly adequate information for the machine shop's purpose of creating the actual parts and assembling the machines. Quite often parts needed to be remade or re-machined because the components just didn't quite fit. We counted on the shop to make our designs work.
Click here to read it on the AUGI website Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Materials
Monday, 08 December 2008Here's a link for creating new material types in Inventor.
To create a new material you must have a file open, I recommend a part file for simplicity. To find the materials that are currently loaded, go to the Format Pull Down and select "Style and Standard Editor". In this dialog you will see lists of different items depending on the type of file that you are working in.
Last Updated Monday, 08 December 20080% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Animate Screws
Tuesday, 17 March 2009You can have a try to make the wheel rotate by Animate Component:
1. Invoke Animate Constraint tool, choose Suppress, set the end time as you wish.(you may need to suppress other constraints too)
2. Invoke Animate Component tool, select the wheel.
3. Click Position button to invoke 3D Move\Rotate tool.
4. Click the axis that you'd like the wheel to rotate around, then enter a rotation angle.
5. Finish the animation, play it in animation timeline, edit it if needed. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful
 Here's a collection of tips and shortcuts that I've assembled for AutoCAD.
Some are original and some are links to other blogs.
- Change F1 to Cancel
Saturday, 11 October 2008Here is the link to Lynn Allen's blog article on changing the F1 key to CANCEL instead of HELP Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Quick Access Toolbar
Friday, 17 October 2008Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
How quickly can you access your commands in AutoCAD®? Sounds strange maybe, but with AutoCAD 2009, there are many ways to access your favorite or frequently used commands, which increases your productivity.
Click here to read how on the AUGI website Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Tips for tables
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Monday, 17 November 2008Here's a list of KeyBoard Shortcuts. press the key and then press Enter to activate the command. It's quicker than either the menu or the toolbar.
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CIRCLE
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COPY
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co
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ERASE
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EXPLODE
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EXTEND
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ex
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FILLET
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HATCH
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INSERT
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LAYER
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LINE
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MOVE
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MTEXT
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OPTIONS
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PLINE
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PROPERTIES
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ROTATE
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TRIM
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UNDO
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ZOOM
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Last Updated Saturday, 04 July 20090% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Access Multiple Drawings
Tuesday, 09 December 2008This tip is for quickly switching between multiple open drawings in AutoCAD 2008
When working with multiple drawings and to see the drawings in the taskbar, to set this visibility, type in "TASKBAR" on the command line and press ENTER. The default is set to "0" but when changed to "1" it will display all drawings on the taskbar, making it easy to switch between them.
This is a good tip that works in AutoCAD too and in all AutoCAD based verticals. There are several ways to get from one open drawing to another. Press the CTRL and TAB keys to toggle through each open drawing, CTRL+TAB+Shift will toggle through them in the opposite order. In AutoCAD 2009, use the QVDRAWING command to open the “Quick View Drawings” command. This will display a thumbnail image of each open drawing file. Click on the one that needs to be opened. This command will also provide a thumbnail view of each Paper Space Tab in the files. Clicking one of these will open the file to that tab. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 1999100,00% of 1 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Insert DWF into Powerpoint
Thursday, 11 December 2008There are many methods of putting an AutoCAD drawing into Powerpoint. In most cases, we place a static image of our drawing file into the slide (and hope our client doesn't ask us to zoom in for any reason). Personally, I've found the most robust means of displaying an AutoCAD drawing file within Powerpoint is with a DWF file. Embedding the DWF viewer allows you to zoom, pan, print, and view multiple drawings all within the same powerpoint slide.
Read the article here at
lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2005/02/quick_tip_power.html
Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Insert CAD image into MS Word
Tuesday, 16 December 2008When you need to supply a diagram for a Word document, .WMF is usually the best format. Windows Meta File is a vector format, so scaling does not pixilate the image. One caution: The aspect ratio will change if you drag the inserted .WMF file by a midpoint grip.
The output will have the appearance of the screen, so you can set the background color in Options and in the Page Setup Manager; click Display Plot Styles to get the look you want. This is an Export utility, not a Plot, so you will need to turn off or freeze Defpoints and other layers set to not plot. Use the Export command in the File menu and choose the .WMF extension in the dialog box. You will be prompted to select objects. Note that all entities must be in the same space.
This method can handle only 2D or wireframe images, though. If AutoCAD is in a conceptual or realistic visual style, the export of to the WMF file will only pull out the wireframe objects. In most cases that is fine, so this may never be an issue. Another quick way to get linework into a document file is to use the COPY/PASTE commands. This is not the COPY command in AutoCAD, but is the COPY command from Windows. Select the objects in AutoCAD that need to be in the report, press CTRL+C. Go to the document file, pick where the diagram needs to go, press CTRL+V. There will be a prompt asking where and what to name the file. Save it or it won’t show up in the Document. This will insert an image of the CAD file in the document file. This method is similar to the WMF. Use the one that suits your needs best. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Zoom command options
Friday, 23 January 2009There are so many commands in AutoCAD that it is difficult to keep track of them all. It is even more difficult to keep track of every little detail within these commands. Typically, we go about our day using a set of commands so much that we run them without thinking about it. Eventually, we use the commands in the same way so often that we forget about the other features in a given command. On top of that, Autodesk often adds new features to a command in a new release and we don't notice.
One example of this phenomenon is the zoom command. Each of us zoom in and zoom out so much that we have forgotten the many "zoom" methods at our disposal. Once the scroll wheel was given to us, many may have even stopped "zooming" altogether. Let's revisit zooming and explore the many ways to zoom in AutoCAD.
Click here to read about "zooming" at the AUGI website. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Using the Shift key as a shortcut
Saturday, 04 July 2009Here is a link to Ellen Finkelstein's blog article about using the Shift key in AutoCAD.
Here are a couple of the most useful tips:
- Press Shift with the FILLET or CHAMFER command to change the radius to 0 and extend two lines to meet
- Press and hold Shift to temporarily override ORTHO.
Last Updated Saturday, 04 July 20090% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Dimension Multiple Objects Quickly
Saturday, 04 July 2009Here is a link to Lynne Allen's video about how to dimension multiple objects quickly. Just be aware, that the results may not be the most effective use of dimenionsioning. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Multiple lines in Dimensions
Wednesday, 30 September 2009To add a second line of text to dimensions, enter a backslash with the letter P (/P) and add your next line of text. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Temporary O-Snap Override
Wednesday, 30 September 2009To do a temporary shutoff of the running Osnaps, press and hold Shift + D. This shuts off the running osnaps while you hold them down. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - AutoCAD 2009 Menu Cue Cards
Saturday, 03 October 2009Here's a link to an interactive explaination of the new menu structure. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful
 Here's a mix of helpful information on using Civil 3D.
- Surfaces
Thursday, 20 November 2008Here's a link to the AUGI website for Creating & Editing Surfaces Last Updated Thursday, 20 November 20080% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful - Goggle Earth & Civil 3D
Tuesday, 03 February 2009One of my personal favorite features of Civil 3D is how it integrates with Google Earth. Being able to grab this data for preliminary planning is such a powerful tool, and one that I hope you are all taking advantage of.
Click here to read the rest of the article at the Being Civil blog Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful
- Grouping Lights for Rendering
Tuesday, 13 January 2009Did you know that in Revit you can put all, or some, of your lights into groups? This is particularly helpful when you want to turn lights off that won’t affect a particular 3D or camera view.
Click on this link to go to CADUzer to read about it. Last Updated Monday, 29 November 19990% of 0 voters found this FAQ useful, I found this FAQ useful not useful
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