- Real AutoCAD Users - Have been doing AutoCAD for 6 or more
years.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Never bother to keep .BAKs.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Wrote some massive front end-loader
for AutoCAD that erases .BAK files.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Can write a menu.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't use the menus that came with
AutoCAD, they wrote NEW ones.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Can run ANY program FROM the menu.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Figured out how to get extended ASCII characters
in a menu.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't do drawings on a dot/matrix
printer.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have SVGA or better
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have two SVGA monitors
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have games on their system.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have all sorts of little "cut-outs" from
the AutoCAD manual pasted on the fronts
of their machines.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Are not afraid to mark, tear, or write in
the AutoCAD users manual.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Get REAL pissed when someone else uses
their machine just to 'Look Around'.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know AutoLISP.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Already took out all of the worthless
statements that came with the AutoLISP files
in AutoCAD .
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know how to edit a AutoLISP file.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know that by avoiding the "Bonus"
files that come with AutoCAD , they will
save up to 4 megs of free space.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Load up the "Bonus" files, just to see
if anything is new, then erases them.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know that the Drawing Recovery option
from the main menu, is bullshit.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Change the screen colors weekly.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have a graphics card that can support 2
monitors.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Wonder why Autodesk give you so much
worthless stuff with a software upgrade.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Wonder why Autodesk charges so much for
an upgrade, and wonder why AutoCAD
gets pirated.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Maintain at least 3 older versions of AutoCAD
on their system.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Never ask for the newest copy of AutoCAD -
they already have it.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have a free subscription to CADALYST.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't really bother to read CADALYST.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Could write an article that could go in
CADALYST.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't run AutoCAD on a MAC.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't have friends that run AutoCAD
on a MAC.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Despise MACs.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Are not concerned with loosing a drawing.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Still panic when INTERNAL:READ ERROR 00G
comes up on the screen.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know that when INTERNAL:EREAD ERROR 00G
comes up, NOTHING can help them, except
for a backup.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Make backups, of their system AND drawings.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know what the files ACAD.$$1 and SWR0V01.001
are, and how to get rid of them.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't let the files ACAD.$$1 and SWR0V01.001
appear on their system.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have all of the .LSP, .DWG, and .SHP files in
separate folders.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have either erased or .ZIPed up the AutoCAD
help file, and replaced it with one of their
own.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Use ZIP not TAR.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have layer names like :
TRASH
1
Q
BLA
TEMP
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't have layer names like :
FIRSTFLOORDOORS
DIMEMTIONX2
OLDSTUFF
FINALPLOT
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know UCS.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Hate UCS.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Use 'DDLMODES not the LAYER command.
- Real AutoCAD Users - NEVER type ZOOM D.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Wonder why colors 0 and 7 are white.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Use VPOINT not DVIEW.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Use the PURGE command about 60 times
in a drawing
- Real AutoCAD Users - Wonder why AutoCAD is so stupid that when a
ZOOM E is done, it needs to regen twice.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Know that by editing a slide file with
a sector/hex editor, you can make all
sorts of nifty psychadelic things happen
to your menus.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Use ASCTEXT to input large text files into a
drawing.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Use the spacebar, not return.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have either drawn a picture of:
Their car,
Their house,
Their dream house,
Or their dream house
with their dream car
parked in the drive..
- Real AutoCAD Users - Will admit that when they first started AutoCAD
that their "fun" drawings, sucked.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Wonder why the HIDE command takes so long.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Use HIDE to waste time, a bit like typing
ZOOM E twice in a large drawing.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Can talk on the phone and draw at the same time.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Drink lots of liquid while drawing.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Go to the bathroom a lot.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Get some exercise while at work.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Are not afraid to eat while drawing.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Can leave the room while plotting.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't care that the system is ON 24 hrs a day,
it's not their machine.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Don't really like the system they run AutoCAD
on, they are sure there is a better one.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Would be damn lucky if they got the system they
have at work, for their home.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Will always complain that AutoCAD on their system
is too slow.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Work in the dark with AutoCAD screen color - black.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Get pissed when someone turns on the light.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Get REAL pissed when people say -
"How can you work in the dark like this?"
- Real AutoCAD Users - Listen to free downloaded mp3s while working.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Have their own CD ROMS to listen to.
- Real AutoCAD Users - Call CadGuruCool
- Real AutoCAD Users - Are reading this while they shoud be working....
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