This is my first time ever to use any Autocad product and it is not even a full version. I have been using Floorplan3D to develope rough drawings of rooms on our campus. Since that program is limited in its abilities I was forced to do some of the more detailed work using Microsoft Powerpoint. That too has its limits and so my boss has asked me to use Autocad to develope proper dimensioned drawings of the project, but the only product available was Autocad LT.
I am laying out the floorplans and elevations of equipment rooms that show devices mounted on walls, conduits projecting from the floor, etc. I just spent 2 hours in Autocad LT trying to construct a simple 2" diameter cylinder to represent 1 of the conduits. I gave up. The online help talks about UCS coordinates and wireframe modeling. I have no idea what UCS means. I know what wireframe modeling is but have no idea how to construct it.
Should I give up now, or is there some simple concept that I need to grasp that will make all of this fall into place? I am not an idiot and have spent many years drawing rooms and devices in 2D and 3D without any trouble. But getting a simple shape together in Autocad seems to be a chore.
Can I choose a cylinder object from a menu and then just enter the dimensions? Can this also be done for other shapes like boxes and rectangles? These were the good points about Floorplan3D. I could simply choose an object like a wall and drag it onto the drawing.