Solidworks tutoring for beginner-Waterford

BBQ Guy

Hello Everyone

Although I have seen Solidworks in action I have never used it nor a CAD program. As silly as it sounds I would like to try and learn the basics of the program. Is anyone available in the Waterford area? FAS never offers anything but CAD here.

BBQ Guy

Maybe I spoke too soon, I see that they offer a 2D course. I wonder what program they will be using.

pprendeville

If it's 2D it will be AutoCAD.

This is a link to download AutoDesk Inventor which is AutoCAD's 3D version. It's used by a lot of companies along with SolidWorks, Pro-E etc.

Cost's about €120 to buy a student version and a hell of a lot more to buy a user license.

http://students.autodesk.com/?nd=assistance_home

BBQ Guy

Thanks PP

madarekrap

Might be worth trying the 2D AutoCAD first chief, I did that in college earlier on and that made the 3D one much easier to understand when I got on to that, it can be a bit mind boggling at first but them FAS courses should be very good I would have thought...

random.stranger

madarekrap wrote: »

Might be worth trying the 2D AutoCAD first chief, I did that in college earlier on and that made the 3D one much easier to understand when I got on to that, it can be a bit mind boggling at first but them FAS courses should be very good I would have thought...

Personally, I found knowing AutoCad 2D to be a disadvantage when I learned Solidworks, as it is a totally different way of thinking. It was also very frustrating at the beginning when I could spend a long time trying to do something in SW that I could have done in a few seconds on Autocad.

Maybe that's just me!

Turbulent Bill

random.stranger wrote: »

Personally, I found knowing AutoCad 2D to be a disadvantage when I learned Solidworks, as it is a totally different way of thinking. It was also very frustrating at the beginning when I could spend a long time trying to do something in SW that I could have done in a few seconds on Autocad.

Maybe that's just me!

I'd partly agree with this, they are very different. It's been a long time since I used AutoCAD regularly (the 2000 version I think), but at that stage it was still just a straight computer version of ordinary manual drafting - not much was 'computer aided'. You effectively drew views of a 3D design which was in your head. By contrast, you make a 3D model in SolidWorks and let it create the drawing views for you. I know AutoCAD has progressed a lot since then, but I still prefer the SolidWorks approach.

I didn't find the transition that difficult, and it would probably been even easier if I hadn't to un-learn some AutoCAD habits. OP, you're best bet is to source evaluation/student versions of each program and try them out. If this is for work you should also check what's used most frequently.

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