I have actually spent $400 on a training package that is very good for inventor. I just find some of the ways it does thing irritating. Plus its only at work. For home I simply cannot afford it. Solidworks is $12k a year or something ridiculous, ive blocked the email from my memory once i came too! So the hunt continues.I am hunting as well as you. They all have a heavy learning curve. When I was learning AutoCad, I purchased a workbook that ran through the whole process with projects along the way. I wish someone would write that.
Jim
Etch-O-Sketch.......snip.... Something with simple instructions so easy that even a dinosaur can understand them?
Too funny, Ken! Oh well, I asked for it...Etch-O-Sketch...
Sorry Bob, I couldn't resists.
Well, I will show my age here. All my training was with vellum and a T-square. I know that system well. I have tried some of the simpler drawing programs and get lost quickly there, though I must admit to giving up pretty easily. I can always use a 2H pencil, compass. and eraser and git-er-done.
I have a buddy who I did a project with recently and he was one of the nerds that wrote the original Autocad code when Autodesk was a tiny startup. He is an amazing software writer. He was using Google Sketchup to do the 2d drawings for our project...
Does anybody have a recommendation for somebody like me who just goes to paper and pencil when the going gets tough? Something with simple instructions so easy that even a dinosaur can understand them?
Im looking at a 3d modelling program to replace inventor? I use a work computer to play around with to learn but I just dont get how the programs thinks? Nothing is intuitive to me? I get that frustrated with the way it flips things around when you go from 3d to sketch.
I have turbocad and it just cant do what I want in 3d. I find 2d stuff fairly easy on any of them, im probably doing it wrong as I have had no training but I can get what i need out of it. But when it comes to 3d im stumped. Have been told solidworks is more intuitive than inventor but i can not afford that.
Any suggestions.
That's a nice drawing but does it do dimension like a cad program does? I'm still stuck with paper. Can't seem to get on the cad wagon but would like to. Tried sketch up and hated it. Couldn't get the hang of turbo cad either.Before the holidays I made a little hammer keychain for someone and spent a lot of time drawing it in AutoCAD 2002 Lite. The head is brass and the handle is stainless steel. I just drew it up in Fusion 360. Would have been nice to have drawn it in 3D before making it, definitely helps visualize the dimensions etc.