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Re: Improving team's CAD skills

For basic drawings, one thing that is important is getting students to not focus on making it perfect when drawing initially. Do a rough sketch, make sure you have all elements together, and then dimension it and let Solidworks put it together. It's much faster to throw on dimensions and constraints rather than painstakingly draw lines as perfect as you can get them. Features that are mostly FRC related... Hmm... Making drawings, focus more on assemblies rather than actually drafting parts (most of the time anything you may need to draw would already have a CAD model online), hole wizards, sheet metal, extruded cuts/boss and fillets/chamfers, also focus on constraints (such as a face is 1.2in from another face or can pivot 12degs in each direction)... Other than that, giving them pet projects to make to practice.
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