CAD Monitors

It’s important to invest in a monitor that meets your needs. However, when you’re on a budget, you should also avoid overspending on extra features that you don’t need for CAD work. In our list below, we’ve featured a selection of monitors which offer a good compromise between great technical performance and reasonable prices.

1. BenQ PD3200Q

2. Philips BDM3490UC

3. Samsung U28E590D

4. BenQ BL2711U

5. Dell U3417W

The best place to get freelance work is ONLINE, go to websites like elance,freelancer, odesk and start bidding for projects but to make any real success on these websites you need to have a really good portfolio and knowledge of Autocad at beyond average level don’t get disheartened if you don’t get initial success but you you need keep persistent approach in getting your first project and once you have done at least one of your projects you are then good to go as more projects you complete better you  make your reputation.
Besides these websites you can also go to clients directly if you know them  but that might not give quick success here also you need to keep working long to make your first break.

Free sources:
http://www.mycadsite.com/  This website has tutorials as articles with very detailed explanatory text and images.

Complete AutoCAD Tutorial | SourceCAD
This website has video tutorials of AutoCAD along with practice drawings and articles related to CAD.

http://au.autodesk.com/au-online…
This is one more great place to learn AutoCAD for free, most of the content on Autodesk university is video tutorials.

Create and modify

Tip 1. How to: Create an Arc with Specific Length

Everybody knows how to create an arc in AutoCAD. If you need to draw an arc with specific length, do you know how to do it?

Tip 2. Align Tool: Move, Rotate, and Scale Your Object at Once

Align is often overlooked by many AutoCAD users. Instead of using move, rotate, and scale separately, you can do it at once using this tool.

As Robin Capper said, it’s a forgotten AutoCAD hero!

Tip 3. How to Control Linetype Scale

We use linetype to control the object appearances. It can be dashdot for center lines, dashed lines for hidden lines, etc. Sometimes we have a hard time to control the linetype scale. And we can’t see the linetype as we expected. It is not that difficult actually.

Tip 4. 10+ Ways to Select Objects in AutoCAD

When you use modifying tools, you need to select objects. Selecting objects sometimes can be tricky, especially in quite a complex drawing. This tip have 10 ways how you can use the object selection. Useful for beginners, and some methods might be missed by advanced users.

Tip 5. How to: Create Angular Dimension Larger than 180 degrees

Do you need to create an angular dimension that shows angle larger than 180 degrees like below? You probably have found that you can’t create dimension with angle larger than 180 degrees after selecting

To know little more about cad cam you can go through this: cad cam blogs

There is a recent increase of several CAD “freelance” agencies, which appears gradually replacing the older, established CAD Outsource services. This could be because, the term “outsource” is often associated with off-shore, cheap labour, that often yield less than perfect results.

How is freelancing better? And how it is different?

According to Miriam-Webster Dictionary:

Outsource is to make ways such that some of the company’s work be done by people from outside the company

Freelance is done by a person who pursues a profession without any long-term commitment to any one employer.

CAD Outsourcing

Outsource services, is that when the client sends a work then it is solely done by a professional who works for a definite company only. And for repeat customers, this is a continuous relationship with the same CAD professional, from one project to the next. This continuity offers the advantage of an in-house engineer, designer, but without any overhead cost of a full-time employee. Even with changing project, this means that you have to work with a different outsource employee, but the outsourcing firm continues withholding the accountability.

read more at:  Know The Main Difference Between CAD Freelance And CAD Outsource

In my opinion, REVIT can replace AutoCAD since this software is easier to use in the sense that you can produce sections and elevations from a single model. It is a time-saver, and cost-efficient.

SolidWorks is the best one to convert 2D CAD to 3D solid work, where can export SolidWorks drawings to DXF/DWG files, including mapping objects to layers and colors.

Import a 2D drawing into a sketch in a SolidWorks part; extract views into separate sketches for extruding into a base feature, then continue to add features. The 2D to 3D conversion process is usually faster than redesigning the part in SolidWorks.