Experience with CAD

[libertarian]

Hi there I'd just like to know how much experience people on this forum have using CAD/BIM

[tedg]

Hi there I'd just like to know how much experience people on this forum have using CAD/BIM

Hey there, congrats on your first post.
I can't speak for everyone, but I've been in the A/E/C design field for over 25 years.
Started out hand drafting house plans and small projects back in the 80's then went back to school, got a degree, got into professional CAD/design in the mid 90's (Design-CAD then AutoCAD, some Micro(puke)station)..
Been working for major A/E firms since 1998. Got into Revit/BIM in 2009 or so.

Does that help?

I think you'll find there are people here with way more experience than I have, and some new to their fields..

[Wanderer]

A little over 17 years professionally here.

Last year's salary survey (https://www.augi.com/surveys-polls/salary/survey-archives) shows this distribution of experience:
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[rkmcswain]

A little over 17 years professionally here.


Melanie got started when she was 10.

[Kimberly Fuhrman-Jones]

Hi there I'd just like to know how much experience people on this forum have using CAD/BIM

25 years since I stepped through my tech school doors. Started out board drafting and using AutoCAD R10. Worked my way up the ranks (the hard way) and in both architectural and civil design. All blended into a crazy BIM mixture that is my life today.

[ccowgill]

I've been using CAD since '99. Professionally since 2001.

[MMccall]

Civil hand drafting 85-92'ish,
Terramodel from 92-2005,
Civil 3D from 2005-now.

Wearing the Cad manager hat/target since 95 at 3 different firms.

[dkoch]

Started working as an intern architect nearly 35 years ago; started out hand drafting. First used AutoCAD in the fall of 1986 and switched over to Architectural Desktop (a former name for the current AutoCAD Architecture) in 2000. First Revit project was in 2009.

[Dinochrome]

Hi there I'd just like to know how much experience people on this forum have using CAD/BIM

1987, XT 8088 4/8 mghtz, with a floppy and no hard drive, no mouse for that matter, RGB monitor.

No, I'm not speaking a foreign language.

[Brian Myers]

CAD: 1989 (28 years)
CAD Professionally: 1990 (27 years)
Revit: 2006 (11 years)

...and I turn 45 in October, which means I first started at the ripe ol' age of 16 and had my first professional job at 17.

[scott.hodges]

32 years. Originally on the board. Started learning CAD with AutoCAD version 1.0. Started using AutoCAD version 2.0 soon after 1985 or thereabouts. I remember when MS Windows debuted with all those user interface elements that AutoCAD had for many years before. With Windows came AutoCAD LT which meant much cheaper CAD without that stuff you might need < 1% of the time. Became an expert with that and using DIESEL and menu modification and development. Still here. Hopefully can retire in another 15 to 20 years.

[jmjohnson]

Started with version 2.1 in the fall of 1985, so 32 years with AutoCAD. 7 years before that on the board hand drafting. That makes 39 years of drawing plans for highway bridges, time flys. I actually had to refuse to work with one engineer in the late 80's because he didn't want any of his work done in CAD, wanted it all done by hand. I eventually was back working on his projects later after he saw that AutoCAD was going to take over hand drafting. I had seen it a few years earlier

[SYVIKOAHIK]

Nice to see I'm not the only old dog learning everyday, been working in CAD since release 12 about 1993. Went to a technical HS, with an excellent architecture teacher. I hated learning CAD mostly because everyone would switch my mouse back to the right.
I've been blessed to be involved in over 400 million in construction projects in my 17 years working, i've built homes and we've moved millions of cubic yards of earth and concrete. One thing about learning design in a real world model environment, is you get sense of place again, and everything we do, whether its a horse wash or a highway. we can say, I did that.