Computer-Aided Design
I figured out how to use the heaters in my apartment. There was actually a knob on the water heater in the attic to activate heating. The heating effectiveness doesn't meet my expectation, but I'm sure it will help me to get through the winter in Galati.
Yesterday, I felt sleepy, so I decided to take a nap at 6:30 PM. I was planning to do some exercise, eat dinner, take care of wet clothes in the washing machine, do this and that on my computer, etc., when I wake up. Well, I did wake up, at 5:06 AM. So I did everything I planned to do then (dinner was replaced with breakfast). Note to myself: set up an alarm even when I don't have to wake up at a certain time.
These days, when I don't have an urgent tasks to complete, I use some of my working hours to educate myself in using CAD (computer-aided design). I was trying to teach myself how to use 3D drawing feature of AutoCAD today for it may become useful someday. However, I was surprised to find that it isn't similar to the softwares I have used in the past, like SolidEdge or Alibre. I don't want to go too much into the technical detail, but let me just say that I was struggling. So my colleague suggested to first experiment with Google Sketchup because it is similar to how AutoCAD works (in 3D environment at least), and Google provides video tutorials. This is what I got done in about two hours.
Now I can draw the same thing in matter of minutes, so it is a powerful tool once you get the hang of it. Since we are on the topic, here's what I drew to practice using "spline" command in AutoCAD.
In case you are wondering, I DO do my job as well.
Yesterday, I felt sleepy, so I decided to take a nap at 6:30 PM. I was planning to do some exercise, eat dinner, take care of wet clothes in the washing machine, do this and that on my computer, etc., when I wake up. Well, I did wake up, at 5:06 AM. So I did everything I planned to do then (dinner was replaced with breakfast). Note to myself: set up an alarm even when I don't have to wake up at a certain time.
These days, when I don't have an urgent tasks to complete, I use some of my working hours to educate myself in using CAD (computer-aided design). I was trying to teach myself how to use 3D drawing feature of AutoCAD today for it may become useful someday. However, I was surprised to find that it isn't similar to the softwares I have used in the past, like SolidEdge or Alibre. I don't want to go too much into the technical detail, but let me just say that I was struggling. So my colleague suggested to first experiment with Google Sketchup because it is similar to how AutoCAD works (in 3D environment at least), and Google provides video tutorials. This is what I got done in about two hours.
Now I can draw the same thing in matter of minutes, so it is a powerful tool once you get the hang of it. Since we are on the topic, here's what I drew to practice using "spline" command in AutoCAD.
In case you are wondering, I DO do my job as well.
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