Anonymous
12/30/2024, 7:17:38 PM
No.1004322
>>1004311
>>1004312
Will have a ponder. I have been involved in mech engineering and product design for 30+ years (formal instruction in both) with loads of learning on the job so not the best to suggest a starting point. However:
At a beginner's level, one of my kids is doing DT at school and there's some useful, simple design stuff in the exam revision guides you can buy from book stores.
CAD: FreeCAD and Solid Edge Community Ed are free (certain restrictions on SE). Also openSCAD, which I haven't used and Tinkercad
Fusion 360 and Onshape have or had free plans.
Solidworks has a makers edition which is apparently a PITA with embedded cloud shit. Shame as I use it at work and it is pretty good for what I do.
Some of the packages (Solidworks particularly) have okay built-in tutorials and there are loads of specific examples of functions on YouTube.
One good way of learning is to pick something you have lying around and just start modelling it. Begin with something simple and then increase difficulty. As a guide, blocky stuff like door hinges is easy, organic stuff like detergent bottles is hard. Moving on to take things apart for really in depth modelling will probably teach you more about how things go together than a bunch of books.
3DP: there used to be some best practice guides for FDM available from Stratasys, particularly "FDM for end use parts". Not sure if this has been wiped or stuck behind a registration form now. Simplify3d had a good guide to print settings.
Reddit's r/3dprinting "getting started" wiki has useful bits in it, though usual reddit caveats apply.
There's useful info at hubs dot com resources pages.
Phonefagging so formatting and speling may be a bit wonky.
>>1004312
Will have a ponder. I have been involved in mech engineering and product design for 30+ years (formal instruction in both) with loads of learning on the job so not the best to suggest a starting point. However:
At a beginner's level, one of my kids is doing DT at school and there's some useful, simple design stuff in the exam revision guides you can buy from book stores.
CAD: FreeCAD and Solid Edge Community Ed are free (certain restrictions on SE). Also openSCAD, which I haven't used and Tinkercad
Fusion 360 and Onshape have or had free plans.
Solidworks has a makers edition which is apparently a PITA with embedded cloud shit. Shame as I use it at work and it is pretty good for what I do.
Some of the packages (Solidworks particularly) have okay built-in tutorials and there are loads of specific examples of functions on YouTube.
One good way of learning is to pick something you have lying around and just start modelling it. Begin with something simple and then increase difficulty. As a guide, blocky stuff like door hinges is easy, organic stuff like detergent bottles is hard. Moving on to take things apart for really in depth modelling will probably teach you more about how things go together than a bunch of books.
3DP: there used to be some best practice guides for FDM available from Stratasys, particularly "FDM for end use parts". Not sure if this has been wiped or stuck behind a registration form now. Simplify3d had a good guide to print settings.
Reddit's r/3dprinting "getting started" wiki has useful bits in it, though usual reddit caveats apply.
There's useful info at hubs dot com resources pages.
Phonefagging so formatting and speling may be a bit wonky.