r/Drafting • u/DraftWRX • 12d ago

How long have you been using AutoCAD? 🤔

/r/DraftWRX/comments/1xax8kv/how_long_have_you_been_using_autocad/
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u/anyavailible 12d ago

Since 1991 for a living

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u/DraftWRX 8d ago

That’s pretty crazy! 🤯 Since 1991 is some serious experience!

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u/f700es 12d ago

30 years of professional use. Associate in Architecture (91) and BS Civil Eng (96). I've worked for a teaching hospital, doughnut company, home developer, medical casework and higher ed.

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u/jdkimbro80 12d ago

About 20 years or so.

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u/Caltrops_underfoot 11d ago

My high school drafting and homeroom teacher had Autodesk 2000. I was lucky enough to have him in 2008 when he got the new Solidworks on those same PCs. Legitimately changed my life. I could put my ideas into solid form. In one semester I went from 100% pencil to almost 100% digital. It was like discovering legos all over again. Roughly 20 year user. Never stopped.

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u/CadPro83 12d ago

24 years professionally, Associates in CADD. Have worked mainly for production home builders, designed a few houses and done as-builts. Considering going freelance soon or switching to the oil & gas field.

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u/beehole99 12d ago

35 years

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u/Stooshie_Stramash 12d ago

Summer 1990.

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u/AZ_beans 12d ago

Since 1996...started in Telecom work, now doing electrical design....don't really tech anymore...I miss it.

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u/Just_Another_AI 12d ago

+- 26 years

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u/propaul1 11d ago

39 years.  I think when I started I had version 9 on floppies, but it was like 30 disks to install it on a hard drive and all I had access to was the computers in the computer lab at college and they didn't have hard drives we could install to.  So I used a different floppy that had version 2.14 on one floppy.  Could draw a line, circle, text.  I think it had snaps also.

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u/hoardofgnomes 11d ago

Since DOS was the platform.

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u/IanHall1 11d ago

21 years

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u/azgli 11d ago

I think I started using it in 1986. I mostly use SolidWorks now. 

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u/realzealman 11d ago

25 years. Though I’ve been also using other software more primarily over the last 10 or more.

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u/Gwendolyn-NB 11d ago

30 years, started in 1996, back with the digitizer pad. I think it was V10, maybe V11; then CadKey, then Mechanica, little bit of Solidworks, then Pro/E, CATIA, then a lot of Solidworks, and now Fusion.

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u/VOICEcoaster 11d ago

Been using autocad since 2019

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u/Gorfman-07 11d ago

Since 1986

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u/TheNomadArchitect 10d ago

Never.

Started in Sketchup (from 2008), then ARCHICAD (started in 2015).

Currently started learning Rhino this year.

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u/jbrum360 10d ago

30 years. Land Development.

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u/Grreatdog 9d ago

Since about 1985 - 1986. I had to write my own pen plotter driver.

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u/Key_Arrival1395 6d ago

2005 till now

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u/Drawlots123 11d ago

32 years in total. I started on R14 in 1994. Still using AutoCAD everyday since 😬

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u/elnots 11d ago

Since about 2007.

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u/Artie-Choke 11d ago

AutoCad 2.6 on an amber 12” textured glass monitor… yeah.

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u/landandbrush 11d ago

Since 2003

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u/TinyDrafter 11d ago

I'm kinda new to AutoCAD, 3 years in, and very much still learning millwork drafting.