Are there any designers here who have made the transition from AutoCAD to Microstation?
Mr. Pug has his first interview since being laid off. He’s a very experienced designer using AutoCAD 2000, but the civil service job he’s trying for asks for Microstation. He’s going to take a crash course in Microstation from a private teacher and purchase a basic Microstation technical manual before he goes in for the Microstation test.
Anybody have any pointers, suggestions, advice? It’s a tough job market (duh) and we’ll take any help we can in order to assist him to ace this interview.
When I was at Mega Whopper Engineering Co. we had several guys 'n gals make the transition with little or no training at all. It’s kinda like learning Spanish after you learn French.
Some of them even go back and forth.
The private lessons should be a tremendous help. What Mr. Pug needs to do mostly is get in there and play with it. (Microstation, that is ! )
What 90 wt said. I use a lot of different drawing tools. The biggest skill (I think) is knowing what they can do. Once you know that, with a little poking around you should be able to find out how to do it.
The commands may be different, the skills needed to apply them are pretty much the same.
When I switched from AutoCad 14 to Microstation, I spent about a month looking for commands that weren’t there until the AutoCad skills dropepd away. As others have said, it’s not a hard transition. You just have to get used to how Microstation does things differently.
Getting in front of a computer for a few hours and playing with the program will do a lot to help Mr. Pug get a feel for how it works.
Biggest thing to note for me (though it’s been a while, and I haven’t used AutoCad 2000) was how levels worked. How Microstation handles levels took the longest adjustment time for me.
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