I have just finished recording 23 videos that
are designed to help you get started with CAD
quickly.
The idea behind these videos is that we focus on a very simple object
and then use it to show you all kinds of CAD operations and various CAD
techniques.
Now there's 23 such videos,
and
if you decide to step through them,
I'm convinced that you will learn essentially all of the basic CAD operations
you'll need.
Now, let me tell you a little bit about how these videos go
and give you a few insights before you start using them.
All right,
first thing is
feel free to watch the videos that are helpful for you.
Don't watch the videos that are not helpful for you.
I suggest watching them on 2x speed
if you can
and
scrubbing around looking for the parts that you need.
I think that will be
helpful.
In each of the
videos, there is a particular activity that's being
done and the description of that activity is shown
in the video.
In some cases, I read the words of the activity. In other cases, I kind of skip
over it. Of course, if you need to look at the words of the activities, you can just
pause the video and take a look at what's
there.
The other thing that's going on in the videos is
that I've just did them all in one take.
So, they are what they are,
okay,
with
whatever
small mistakes I may have made here or there.
Nevertheless,
I did that on purpose hoping
that it would feel
like you've come into my office and we're talking through
how to do some of these activities.
I think that you'll find them useful
in that way.
OK.
What else do I need to tell you about this?
The
main
challenge associated with this set of activities
is that if you have in your mind
that the only thing that matters is
the correct geometry and the correct material assignment,
then you can make this part
very quickly.
But actually, that's not the goal of these videos and activities.
The goal of the video and activities is to expose
you to various ways of dealing with the CAD system.
And so, it means that we're doing a lot of operations,
some of which we would never really do on this simple
object
that is the subject of these activities.
But that's okay.
The point is
to learn and to be exposed to these different
actions,
not just to create the right geometry and have the right material assignment,
although that's important too.
OK,
what else.
I think there's one other thing that I wanted to say about this.
And
ah,
after a long day,
I'm having a hard time remembering what that is,
but nevertheless,
here's where we're gonna leave it.
These activities I'm confident
do expose you to
the
actions and the techniques that are gonna show
up again and again and again in the course
but also
in your own CAD work. So,
I recommend that you give this set of activities your best effort.
And as you do that,
you're really setting yourself up for a really really good experience
in the rest of the course.
Okay, that's it.
Thanks so much.
And as typically would be the case,
the minute I stopped recording I remembered what that other thing was
that I wanted to say about these videos
and that is that you're gonna learn
a very important technique
relative to saving
your files in a cloud-based system.
And this is where we will be doing
versioning,
branching,
merging,
and all of those kinds of wonderful things that
aren't as complicated as they sound
but yet very,
very important to learn
not only
in this course and in dealing with on shape but also
just in dealing sort of in the modern
computing world. So,
I'm bringing this up because
the shape that we're working with is so simple
it's not really required
to be doing all the merging and actually branching
and merging that we're doing in this set of activities,
but
the activities
are not about
that.
It's about helping you understand
what are
the versioning techniques,
what are the merging and branching techniques
that will be helpful when you work on more complex
models and more complex
systems, which we're going to be at very,
very shortly
in
the course.
So,
that was the second thing was just that there's versioning
and
that's why we're working on this to expose you to
that and to let you know how important that is
to the whole system.