Teaching cad?

[pigpenguin]

Hello, so our team's cad "division" is pretty new. Three years ago, they told us they wanted us to cad, gave us the software and we jumped in and figure out how to swim. However, this year we have new people joining the cad team and, long story short, seeing as I learnt by doing and never really had some one teaching me, I am struggling to teach them. I was just curious as to, how you guys go about teaching your teammates cad. Cheers, Pigpenguin

[Katie_UPS]

This is how I learned and taught: Give them an object and tell them to make it.

Make an object first though, and let them watch. Make something simple but with multiple parts, so they can see how you sketch, extrude, assemble, etc. Then have them making something different, but also simple.

For CAD, I think that watching someone CAD, and then jumping into it, is a good way to go. If they see you do it, they understand the basic outline of how to do it. When they "jump in", they figure everything out on their own* (which will stick a lot better than you telling them). If you let them try on their own while being near them to help (only when they really need it), you'll get them familiar with the program in no time. From there its just practice, practice, practice.

* Assemblies are tricky and might need more step-by-step guidance

[Frenchie461]

This is how I learned and taught: Give them an object and tell them to make it.

Make an object first though, and let them watch. Make something simple but with multiple parts, so they can see how you sketch, extrude, assemble, etc. Then have them making something different, but also simple.

For CAD, I think that watching someone CAD, and then jumping into it, is a good way to go. If they see you do it, they understand the basic outline of how to do it. When they "jump in", they figure everything out on their own* (which will stick a lot better than you telling them). If you let them try on their own while being near them to help (only when they really need it), you'll get them familiar with the program in no time. From there its just practice, practice, practice.

* Assemblies are tricky and might need more step-by-step guidance

That's a good way to learn parts. As for assemblies have them start with mate and flush by having them make a cube. Then try Inset by CADing a nut and bolt and putting the nut on the bolt. Once they have those 3 constraints figured out, have them make the minibot pole and show them tangential constraint by making it tangent to the robot CAD.

That should give them the basics, so you should show them this (http://team1323.com/cad/index.html) and this (http://www.firstcadlibrary.com/) and have them make them CAD a previous year's robot (find the simplest) for practice.

Frenchie

[pigpenguin]

Hey guys, Sorry about the late response school/internet problems etc... Thanks for the advice I held a lesson last Friday, and besides people installing the wrong software (autocad) it went rather well thank you guys for the help :D
- Pigpenguin