Bore at Work

"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
07/22/2014 at 09:54 • Filed to: None

so I CADDed a Tesla S. I'll add it to my inventory to use in garages for house plans I draft.

DISCUSSION (21)

trmoore09 > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 09:57

autocad?

OPPOsaurus WRX > trmoore09
07/22/2014 at 09:59

yep

trmoore09 > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 10:04

Nice. Now 3d.. GO!

OPPOsaurus WRX > trmoore09
07/22/2014 at 10:08

Yea, all set with that.

erikgrad > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 10:14

Beautiful...and you are sharing the files with us, too?

spanfucker retire bitch > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 10:15

I'll have to check my Machinery's Handbook, but I don't think CADDED is a verb. Or a word.

OPPOsaurus WRX > spanfucker retire bitch
07/22/2014 at 10:18

its past tense of CADDing. if its not there, pencil it in and submit for review and approval.

Example: I'm CADDing the shit out of this right now.

Past Tense: I CADDed the shit out of that.

OPPOsaurus WRX > erikgrad
07/22/2014 at 10:19

Eh I dunno how to go about doing that.

erikgrad > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 10:29

That's okay, I don't think I have anything to use it for anyhow...just looks awesome.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 10:30

Good thinking: goofing off at work with a practical use.

OPPOsaurus WRX > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/22/2014 at 10:33

back in the day I worked in the CAD office at college. There were twice as many people working for the work we had so we went onto google earth and traced subs, destroyers and battle ships and made our own AutoCAD Battleship. That was not so practical.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 10:38

Did you do a manual trace on this one? Generally when I'm doing an AutoCAD version of something for appearance only from a picture (dimensions not 100% critical), I just dump the picture into the model space, draw a bisecting line, go nuts with splines and straight lines, then mirror.

OPPOsaurus WRX > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/22/2014 at 10:43

Its all splines and then mirrored. Then I got the overall length from Tesla's website and scaled to match. I'm sure its not 100% accurate but its main purpose is just to give the client a scene of scale for the garage so its close enough.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 10:49

In much the same manner as the famous aphorism about laws, Autocad drawings are like sausage - better not to see them being made.

OPPOsaurus WRX > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/22/2014 at 11:00

My boss will stand behind me while i'm drafting and say you dont have this, thiat window isn;t where it should be, this doesn;t line up.... Give me a break, I'm working on it, come back later

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 11:05

A lot of what I draw amounts to "Really, REALLY fancy refrigerators".

OPPOsaurus WRX > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/22/2014 at 11:10

what do you do? I work at a Residential firm. The houses probably start at $1m. We have 1 in construction with a $5.5m construction budget and 22k sq/ft. We typically dont get into the kitchen design beyond a very simple layout. The clients usually hire a kitchen designer with the cabinet purchase.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 11:23

My firm does high-precision humidity and temp control chambers and conditioners, which also covers producing drawings for insulated rooms, duct design, etc. Everything in scale from low five- figures up into quite pricey indeed - like a 40'x50' insulated room with multiple smaller ones, and conditioned air up to 7000CFM per. One of my current projects is actually multiples of 5500CFM models in pairs.

Kinja'd!!!

OPPOsaurus WRX > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/22/2014 at 11:29

what are these things used for? Is it like storage fridges for restaurants? morgues? museums?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 11:41

Pharmaceuticals, chemical companies, textile makers, paper makers, and in one case the Library of Congress. Also somewhere else .gov in VA that I'm not sure what it was getting used for. Mostly samples that have to be tested at or kept at certain conditions with high reliability and constancy - which means everything from dry freezer rooms up to swamp rooms that run at 40C/75%+ humidity, and chambers that run hotter and wetter still.

Sometimes it's necessary for a process, sometimes it's necessary to test shelf life, sometimes it's preservation-without-drying-out.

spanfucker retire bitch > OPPOsaurus WRX
07/22/2014 at 12:46

There's nothing worse than being watched while you're drying to model or finish up a drawing.

Thankfully most of the Engineers I work with realize that as well, and after giving me the input they'll stand up from their chair and go; "Alright, let me know when you're done."