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Back in college, I had a few classes on CAD (mostly for engineering design), and I became decently proficient with CATIA, SolidWorks, and Autodesk Inventor. Now that I’m getting into 3D printing, I’m coming back to CAD and finding my skills pretty rusty.

I plan to use FreeCAD as my main tool. Could anyone please recommend some tutorials that I can complete that would give me a solid working knowledge of FreeCAD and help me brush up on CAD in general?

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For someone with zero experience (meeeeee!!!), which would you recommend?

I'm not an idiot but I have no idea where to even begin. I have a 3D printer and I will need to make small, somewhat simple parts for a couple of projects I'm working on.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

That said I forgot 3kkk which has a nice 100 quick tutorial. They are pre V1.0 but should still be useful!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0gfSbL5xF9kv7_lc2Ob_A

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I can't say one or the other definitively, I think it depends on who you like listening to the best. What I would do though is try to do one short tutorial a day for a while instead of longform videos. That tends to yield better learning results.