I do some line drawings in Corel for the lighting company that I work for. The local community college is offering a beginners' Auto CAD class that I may be interested in taking. I don't know very much about Corel..just what little I have been able to teach myself. I just want to know if there is a difference between Corel and Auto CAD. Thanks!
Corel is a software company, just like Adobe or Autodesk.
AutoCAD is the CAD (or CADD) software made by Autodesk. It is completely different from the "drawing" programs out there. It is much more technical and can work in true 3D. Everything is based on specs, rather than visual appearance, and can be translated into instructions for CAM rendering or into plans for construction. You would want to take this if you have plans to work in architecture, engineering, or manufacturing. If you are just doing graphical artistic stuff, you might be interested, but today's drawing programs are pretty capable for that type of work.
What is a realistic time in which I could get to grips with Autocad drawings that have been made and turn it into a pretty reasonable animation/render in 3D? Say a planner gave me the Autocad file, would it be easy to learn to use in a 3D program?
Also, is Autocad hard to learn to replicate dimensions and prelimenary paper drawings into Autocad files?
Thanks for any input people have!
Its fairly straight foreward, as they should have all the measurements on there. Obviously you'll need to start out small and get to grips with different ways of doing things. Within a month should do it though.
