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Re: Brand New to CAD and PTC Creo

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Originally Posted by skottmorris View Post
Good reply Nick. That was going to be my suggestion too. The PTC Community has much more information than cheif-delphi. For whatever reason this forum has not been popular with PTC users.

The video tab of the FIRST community has links and downloads of all the RoboTalk webcasts that cover everything from getting started to advanced kinematics.

Nick's project suggestion is the best. Pick something simple and try to design and build it in Creo. If you get stuck along the way, just drop a question in the FIRST Community.

Love to see you stick with Creo. You'll have the same learning challenges going to SolidWorks and I always tell people Inventor is nice, but I don't know anyone getting paid to use it. Its almost 100% education and not used much in industry.
Interesting point about Inventor.

After learning to work in Creo and finding that Inventor and SolidWorks available to FRC teams at no charge, I thought to try, but it seems that it's hard to switch (at least for me).

Since you are in FTC and I assume there won't be a need to CAD design and machine custom parts, I'd suggest just to pick one of those 3 and run with it.

I also support project based learning. Without project learning comes wa-a-a-a-a-ay too slow. Having something something specific to do will also trigger some specific challenges and consequently specific question to overcome those challenges. Asking specific questions on forums will result in much better quality answers

I started with Creo this January. You can take a look at the CAD model I designed of the compressor.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...8&d=1400437110

Have fun learning !!

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