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I have just finished recording 23 videos that

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are designed to help you get started with CAD

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quickly.

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The idea behind these videos is that we focus on a very simple object

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and then use it to show you all kinds of CAD operations and various CAD

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techniques.

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Now there's 23 such videos,

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and 

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if you decide to step through them,

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I'm convinced that you will learn essentially all of the basic CAD operations

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you'll need.

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Now, let me tell you a little bit about how these videos go

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and give you a few insights  before you start using them.

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All right,

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first thing is

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feel free to watch the videos that are helpful for you.

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Don't watch the videos that are not helpful for you.

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I suggest watching them on 2x speed

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if you can

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and 

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scrubbing around looking for the parts that you need.

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I think that will be

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helpful.

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In each of the

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videos, there is a particular activity that's being

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done and the description of that activity is shown

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in the video.

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In some cases, I read the words of the activity. In other cases, I kind of skip

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over it. Of course, if you need to look at the words of the activities, you can just

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pause the video and take a look at what's 

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there.

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The other thing that's going on in the videos is

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that I've just did them all in one take.

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So, they are what they are,

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okay,

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with

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whatever 

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small mistakes I may have made here or there.

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Nevertheless,

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I did that on purpose hoping

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that it would feel

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like you've come into my office and we're talking through

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how to do some of these activities.

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I think that you'll find them useful

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in that way.

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OK.

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What else do I need to tell you about this?

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The 

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main

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challenge associated with this set of activities

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is that if you have in your mind

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that the only thing that matters is

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the correct geometry and the correct material assignment,

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then you can make this part

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very quickly.

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But actually, that's not the goal of these videos and activities.

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The goal of the video and activities is to expose

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you to various ways of dealing with the CAD system.

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And so, it means that we're doing a lot of operations,

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some of which we would never really do on this simple

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object

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that is the subject of these activities.

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But that's okay.

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The point is

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to learn and to be exposed to these different

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actions,

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not just to create the right geometry and have the right material assignment,

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although that's important too.

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OK,

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what else.

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I think there's one other thing that I wanted to say about this.

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And

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ah,

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after a long day,

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I'm having a hard time remembering what that is,

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but nevertheless,

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here's where we're gonna leave it.

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These activities I'm confident

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do expose you to

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the 

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actions and the techniques that are gonna show

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up again and again and again in the course

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but also

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in your own CAD work. So,

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I recommend that you give this set of activities your best effort.

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And as you do that,

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you're really setting yourself up for a really really good experience

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in the rest of the course.

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Okay, that's it.

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Thanks so much.

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And as typically would be the case,

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the minute I stopped recording I remembered what that other thing was

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that I wanted to say about these videos

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and that is that you're gonna learn

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a very important technique

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relative to saving

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your files in a cloud-based system.

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And this is where we will be doing

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versioning,

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branching,

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merging,

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and all of those kinds of wonderful things that

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aren't as complicated as they sound

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but yet very,

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very important to learn

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not only

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in this course and in dealing with on shape but also

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just in dealing sort of in the modern

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computing world. So,

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I'm bringing this up because

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the shape that we're working with is so simple

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it's not really required

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to be doing all the merging and actually branching

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and merging that we're doing in this set of activities,

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but

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the activities

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are not about

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that.

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It's about helping you understand

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what are

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the versioning techniques,

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what are the merging and branching techniques

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that will be helpful when you work on more complex

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models and more complex

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systems, which we're going to be at very,

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very shortly

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in 

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the course.

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So,

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that was the second thing was just that there's versioning

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and 

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that's why we're working on this to expose you to

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that and to let you know how important that is

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to the whole system.