Hey,

Well, I've got a lab for ENG 1C03 tomorrow and I just had a few questions:

1) How do we prepare for the lab?
2) What will the lab assignments be based on?
3) Do they teach you how to use AutoCAD from scratch?

Thanks!

My suggestion from experience, would be to download AutoCAD and just mess around with it before entering the lab. Try to create something even. If you can't do that, don't worry to much since they do teach you from scratch and do a few minutes of a tutorial on how to go about using the program. When I had my first lab (2 years ago so it may have changed), IIRC, we were giving a 1% assignment. They gave us this object and we had to model it in the program. To be honest, I was so freakin lost lol and didn't do very well, but as the semester went on though I practised and could create the objects easily and ended up killing the course. As you progress through the labs you start off with creating simple objects then you start to get to more complex object where you have to visualize it in your head and then creating multiple parts and putting them together to make something.

Originally Posted by AnguishedEnd

My suggestion from experience, would be to download AutoCAD and just mess around with it before entering the lab. Try to create something even. If you can't do that, don't worry to much since they do teach you from scratch and do a few minutes of a tutorial on how to go about using the program. When I had my first lab (2 years ago so it may have changed), IIRC, we were giving a 1% assignment. They gave us this object and we had to model it in the program. To be honest, I was so freakin lost lol and didn't do very well, but as the semester went on though I practised and could create the objects easily and ended up killing the course. As you progress through the labs you start off with creating simple objects then you start to get to more complex object where you have to visualize it in your head and then creating multiple parts and putting them together to make something.

Thanks! =)
I guess I'll play around with AutoCAD for a bit, haha. Ugh, it's really confusing, though.

you guys are using autocad this year? no more solidedge?

We are doing Inventor 2011 this year, plus MapleSIM later in the course.

Gah, that was one of the worst labs I've had to endure. Brutal. Thank god the assignment wasn't for marks, though.

Thanks again for all the help!

I did it on Monday. Its a TON of fun, and really simple (Though this may be because I've had experience with CAD programs before). They teach you from scratch, and you have like 2 hours to do one small 3D render. Its really simple, no prep required. Don't worry about it at all.