{"id":6957,"date":"2017-06-28T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2020-04-07T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T21:45:20","slug":"engineer-briana-brubaker-talks-coming-age-autocad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/engineer-briana-brubaker-talks-coming-age-autocad\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer Briana Brubaker Talks About Coming of Age with AutoCAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"with-autocad-now-in-its-35th-year-of-existence-weve-started-talking-to-designers-who-dont-know-about-life-before-the-original-cad-software-briana-brubaker-a-structural-engineer-wi\">With AutoCAD now in its 35<sup>th<\/sup> year of existence, we\u2019ve started talking to designers who don\u2019t know about life before the original CAD software. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/briana-brubaker-ba772865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Briana Brubaker<\/a>, a structural engineer with <a href=\"http:\/\/martinoandluth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martino and Luth<\/a> in the Denver, Colorado area, is one of them.<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/04\/briana-full_kkyi00.jpg\" alt=\"Briana Brubaker\" width=\"287\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/04\/briana-full_kkyi00.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/04\/briana-full_kkyi00-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/>\u201cI&#8217;ve used AutoCAD since I was a kid,\u201d she says. \u201cMy father is actually a high school CAD teacher. I saw the first AutoCAD when it came out on the DOS computers a gazillion years ago.\u201d Read on to find out what inspired her to go into engineering, and how she\u2019s using AutoCAD to make the world as safe as it is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to become an engineer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I actually was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlscouts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girl Scout<\/a> and we had engineering day when I was ten. We built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Popsicle-Stick-Bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popsicle stick bridge<\/a> and had a competition; we came in third. I thought it was the coolest thing that I had ever done in my life. From then on, I worked to go into engineering. Probably the only thing that has changed is that I originally wanted to build (real) bridges, but I found this awesome company that designs buildings instead of bridges. I really enjoy the job; even though I\u2019m not doing bridges, I am still doing structural engineering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you use AutoCAD?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of engineering companies where the engineers do the engineering and the CAD drafters do the CAD. At our company, which is small, we do both. I use AutoCAD pretty much 50-75% of my day. Usually, I take architectural drawings out of Revit by doing an export, but the client sometimes provides the AutoCAD background. Either will work, but I generally prefer to set the range for myself in Revit so that I can get what I need. I take those drawings and I set up the structural elements.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I am working on a school. They knew that they wanted pre-cast concrete panels with steel columns and beams inside. We got the architectural drawings and we set up where the columns were going to be and where the joists were going to be, and the beams, etc. We put in the structural floor. We draw these structural elements, and I&#8217;d say 90% of it is done in AutoCAD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you prefer to work in AutoCAD?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a company, we are trying to move more into 3D, but right now, as wonderful as the 3D software is, Revit and everything, it just cannot beat the cleanliness and the user friendliness of AutoCAD. It just can\u2019t. AutoCAD produces the best planned drawings. When you\u2019re out in the field, you\u2019re not looking at a model. You\u2019re looking at a sheet. For now, and probably for the foreseeable future, we are going to be putting our drawings out in AutoCAD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/04\/briana-working_qvdbc3.jpg?cld_params=w_auto:100:700\" alt=\"Briana Brubaker\" width=\"700\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/04\/briana-working_qvdbc3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/04\/briana-working_qvdbc3-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What kinds of projects does your company work on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We do all kinds of stuff. We do apartment buildings\u2014everything from eight-story concrete apartment buildings to smaller three-story walk-ups where there are eight buildings in the apartment complex. We do malls. We do hospitals. Actually, recently, we are doing a pot dispensary now that that\u2019s legal in Colorado, so that&#8217;s interesting. Anyway, it\u2019s that kind of stuff. Not <em>huge<\/em> buildings but pretty good sized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve used AutoCAD for a long time, in fact, you\u2019ve grown up with it. How has it changed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How much time do you have? [Laughter] I think it\u2019s changed a lot. It is kind of insane, but it is cool to learn each time something comes out and makes things easier for us.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That popsicle bridge you and your troop created for that Girl Scout competition\u2026 did you design it in AutoCAD?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, I don\u2019t think we did. We drew it by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With AutoCAD now in its 35th year of existence, we\u2019ve started talking to designers who don\u2019t know about life before the original CAD software. 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