The average CAD user knows the importance of a mouse in 3D modeling. And this is why most designers, go through the rather tedious process of selecting the best mouse for CAD modeling rather than simply settling for the traditional mouse. Although everyone has his or her peculiarity in terms of how they approach CAD …
Modeling can be fun when using Thinkercad, and the following practice exercise will help you have an idea about how things are done in Tinkercad which can lead to helping you come out with a really useful project down the line. If you have been using the LOFT command and the SHELL command in other …
With this exercise, we are heading toward advance modeling sessions using CAD. Here you will learn how to use what you have learned so far to model about anything you want to model in real life using AutoCAD (or other CAD software). We will model a stool using elementary 3D commands in AutoCAD, all by …
This command is the least used one of these 3 commands (UNION, SUBTRACT, INTERSECTION) but it shares the same properties and requirements with the others. This command will help you have an object resulting from the intersecting area/volume of two surfaces/solids. intersection command in AutoCAD To use the INTERSECT command in AutoCAD Type INTERSECT and …
Here comes the SUBTRACT command, one the most used command in 3D while working in AutoCAD. By now, you must be able to use the UNION command which we worked with lately. This command in a complementary command to the UNION command and is almost unavoidable while working in 3D in AutoCAD. 3D Subtraction in …
Here, we move forward with learning how to modify 3D objects in AutoCAD. I recommend you check the past posts if you have not, since you will need them in order to use this command efficiently: Your first 3D piece in AutoCAD Sweep in AutoCAD SHELL in AutoCAD The SHELL sub-command converts a 3D solid …
Let’s quickly visit the ROTATE command in AutoCAD 3D. That might help you find your way around some difficulties while modeling. This command helps rotate objects in 3D. In 3D, rotating objects will be a lot more needed than it was in 2D. Now we will be working in three dimensions, meaning, we will have three …
The rectangle is one if not the most basic shape in geometry. Here, we will deal with creating a 3D rectangle using AutoCAD. It is one of the easiest figures to get while using AutoCAD in 3D. Creating a 3D rectangle will take close to a second if you know how to go about it. …
Nothing is going banana yet. The title of this post is referring to a pain most of you must have had after the last experiment. Here is the problem. We have recently learned how to use the 3Drotate command, and the SWEEP command. And we were able to build the following 3D object in AutoCAD …
We have taken a good time lately working on mastering the basics in AutoCAD, and with this skill, you must be able to replicate any 2D images using AutoCAD. As you must have noticed from our past experience, learning AutoCAD goes first with understanding what the environment is made of, How to draw basic shapes, …
SCALE is the name of the command that helps scale objects in AutoCAD. If you have been inserting blocks in existing projects, you mush be aware of how important this command can be. The main issue that arises most of the time when inserting an object or a block in a project you are working …
This post would be more interesting if you have checked the exercises where we first used the 3DRORATE command in AutoCAD. Here we will be using the SWEEP command, just as the EXTRUDE command we have made use of when we built out first figure in AutoCAD, it helps obtain cylinders from circles and can …
With what we have worked on last time, this should be just a piece of cake. Here is a table to go with the stool we modeled last time. The table is a combination of two big pieces using the puzzle-joint-technique, and looking at it with the designer eye, it is just a bunch of …
The LINE command and the PLINE command in AutoCAD are used exactly with the same steps. Consequently, it is hard for a CAD beginner to fully grasp the need to ever use one to the detriment of the other. In this post, we will look into a very basic example where the use of the …
Here is one of the three most used commands while assembling in AutoCAD 3D. The most part of creating a 3D object in AutoCAD is based on interlocking 2d parts seen in 3D. AutoCAD gives you the ability to create trivial 3D objects with more or less a click, and you will be constructing the …