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I completely Agree that SolidWorks is the most user Friendly. I attempted to use Inventor 2013, but they have a lack of tutorials and I am not sure where everything is located.

I have been talking to a team in St.Louis (1094) and have been trying to encourage them to start using CAD. I pointed out how SolidWorks is so User Friendly and now I believe they might be using CAD next year.

I am hoping that with my free time this summer I can create some Solidworks Tutorials for Beginners and to show people the extra things that will make you a lot quicker at Designing.

I am about to make a Video for this transmission (even though I already designed it once) just to show how I design, and also others can help me better my CADing Skills. I am hoping to Video Capture CADing our 2013 robot next year :D

Keep it up and you will be really fast at Solid Works in no time!

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That's a whole lot prettier than my 10 second attempt at rendering it in Inventor.

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Andrew,
Very pretty, keep up the good work!

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Nice job on your first render!

If you're looking for some nice tutorials, Lynda has a pretty nice set of video tutorials for solidworks, but they aren't free unless you or your school has a membership. Something to check out :) I learned how to make pretty pictures in 10 minutes with that video and just poking around. Keep exploring!