Just want to thank everyone that engaged with my post today everyone was so chill and inspiring. I want to encourage us all in this community and all over Lemmy to continue to be kind and helpful. I had so many bad experiences on Reddit with hate keepers and know it alls and I’m glad we got this opportunity to be something better.

Ps: what cad software did you start on and what do you use now? Any tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated!

  • @debiangamer
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    51 year ago

    This will be unpopular, but I would recommend getting an autoddsk Inventor eduational license, if you can, to learn the basics of parametric modeling. Build up general skills and then graduate to a FOSS solution like Freecad. I would recommend finding broken gadgets/toys and home and reverse engineering replacement parts.

    • Giles
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      11 year ago

      @debiangamer I think it is important to note that if you’re learning any modeling software, it is important to follow tutorials to learn the process and workflows (especially with FreeCAD)
      #3dprinting

    • @lanolinoil
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      11 year ago

      Do you have a good interactive parametric tutorial suggestion?