[BrianArneson]

I found Inventor quite intuitive. I never really did any tutorials but instead just experimented with different tools and saw what they did. But the few tutorials I did were indeed very good. If you can't find videos for general CAD you can look for videos of different parts. Mainly it is sketching, extruding that sketch, and assembling it. I will actually be teaching my team CAD next week and will be recording the whole thing, so that could be something you might be interested in watching after I upload it.

For beginners I would definitely recommend Autodesk Inventor. It is very easy to use and intuitive. I wouldn't recommend Creo as it was confusing and not easy to learn. Solidworks I found to be not bad but some of the processes are somewhat confusing and not straightforward. But that could adjust be me being somewhat biased to Inventor as that was the one I learned first. Inventor also works with the many other free Autodesk products like 3DS Max and Inventor Publisher. Inventor also has the ability to animate your models and render pictures with ease.