CraftyCat Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Now in 7th week of new job and learning VW, i feel i am doing ok but could be better. The boss still getting old employee to do drawings, how do i convince him I'm capable??? Quote Link to comment
barkest Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Five or so years ago I had not heard of VW and I had never touched a CAD package of any kind. I was new to teaching and someone asked me at the start of summer if I would teach VW. Being stupid and naive I said yes why not. I downloaded VW and then lived and breathed it for the whole of summer. Days, evenings, weekends, holidays and my wife would roll her eyes each time I mentioned VW. No magic bullet just hard work and crank out the projects which shows you are capable. Upshot is I have been teaching it for 6 years in Jan and why o why did I say yes 1 Quote Link to comment
Taproot Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 If you are wanting to advance your skills, use an existing project as a guide and try and redraw it from scratch. That will ensure that you know how to use all of the relevant tools and better familiarize you with the process. Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 As per previous posters, Just learn it your self in your own time, take your work home to get upto speed, dont tell them you are taking it home or learning on your own time, just learn it better than the rest and just bring the work in looking fantastic and sit quietly and eventually they will see the potential. When they as you to do something just ask what do you want and when do you want it. Don't give them a big speel about what you have to do, just do it. eventually if you have the passion, you will be leaving the others behind. It happens. Good luck Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Another idea is if you have access to the CAD files that the former employee is creating (assuming they are using Vectorworks), is to poke around inside a copy of their file and study exactly how they set up the file: how they set up the Classes & Layers, how they organized the Design Layers & Sheet Layers, how they did their annotations, etc. Quote Link to comment
Chad Hamilton HAArchs Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 5 minutes ago, rDesign said: Another idea is if you have access to the CAD files that the former employee is creating (assuming they are using Vectorworks), is to poke around inside a copy of their file and study exactly how they set up the file: how they set up the Classes & Layers, how they organized the Design Layers & Sheet Layers, how they did their annotations, etc. A variation on this theme - understand how the old employee puts the drawing together, then write a description of they way they do it as a mini office drawing manual. Create some in-house templates and drawing resource files based on other drawings. that would help the office work more efficiently. With your recent training, or by cribbing from VW training information, self-critique the way the office is doing drawings and come up with three ways the work could be done more efficiently. Then present the whole package to your boss. Quote Link to comment
Matt Overton Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 4 hours ago, Chad Hamilton HAarchs said: A variation on this theme - understand how the old employee puts the drawing together, then write a description of they way they do it as a mini office drawing manual. Create some in-house templates and drawing resource files based on other drawings. that would help the office work more efficiently. With your recent training, or by cribbing from VW training information, self-critique the way the office is doing drawings and come up with three ways the work could be done more efficiently. Then present the whole package to your boss. Exactly this save a minute out of someone important's day and they will see you as valuable. Save a minute out of everyone's day and you'll be invaluable. Quote Link to comment
MRD Mark Ridgewell Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) ...ask the 'old' employee to give you some pointers/ tips. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to help, and then reciprocate by introducing them to new techniques/ workflows as suggested in previous posts. You can teach old dogs new tricks! Edited August 3, 2017 by MRD Mark Ridgewell Grammar Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 On 25/07/2017 at 0:29 AM, rDesign said: Another idea is if you have access to the CAD files that the former employee is creating (assuming they are using Vectorworks), is to poke around inside a copy of their file and study exactly how they set up the file: how they set up the Classes & Layers, how they organized the Design Layers & Sheet Layers, how they did their annotations, etc. This is very good advice. Learning by looking at how others have achieved things is incredibly helpful. Also, it will help you formulate for yourself what is good and also less good practice. Reading this forum has helped me immeasurably. There are some incredibly helpful people here who want to share their knowledge. Quote Link to comment
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