I have started an Onshape CAD class for new people who have been brainwashed into using onshape (keep up the good work!) and need help learning. I have been hosting lessons in-person every thursday and have made wonderful progress with my new CAD learners. While these classes are working well, and are almost always open to anyone or team that wants to attend (both remote and in-person), I want to set up an automated class via youtube that works when I don’t. Think of it as a contingency plan in case all the senior CAD people have a heart attack!
I have been working on videos for awhile, and published 2 long ago. I want to finish the rest of them, but I feel they have something to be desired. Almost nobody on earth wants to watch a 1-2 hour onshape tutorial on making an entire V8 engine or swerve drive just to learn how to fillet properly, so my plan is to make a large quantity of 3-10 minute videos that go over as many features/methods as possible quickly and clearly so that people have the tools to do things themselves.
This is the first batch of videos that I made awhile ago. Before I publish more, I want to get criticism from all the teams, most notably from new people.
Let me know what you think, how I should change them, what I should go over, ect. Be harsh if you have to, it is in the name of education!
P.S. I am aware the mic and recording quality leave something to be desired, OBS is being a bit weird atm. Also I will eventually (eventually) re-do these to include the shortcuts I forgot.
One recommendation I’d make is to view sketch planes straight on rather than at an angle to clarify that a sketch is a 2d feature. When you draw with your view at an angle it adds that pesky 3rd dimension in and makes the sketched object a bit more confusing to a new user.
I had a boss once that would chew me out for using object/solid lines in a sketch if they were for layout, ever since then I have had a strong habit of using construction lines when the sketched object won’t result in a feature of the model. He also insisted that we pattern features rather then sketches, but I honestly don’t know which way is better and see no issue with the way you do it.
All in all that’s pretty good, CAD is really hard to teach quickly because you always run into another item that you wished you had cover and feel the need to add more in to a simple project. Your video was easy to follow and helps explain concepts in a way that was simple to keep up with. I like that you took the time to explain extras when they came up too.
Thank you very much! 70% of my time is preparing for the recording, as opposed to actually recording. the other 29% is filling my hard drive with bad takes. I will definitely keep the adjusting plane view in mind when doing my new videos and re-doing these.
I remind my students probably a dozen times every hour to orient their sketch view perpendicular to their sketch, it’s a wonder I forgot to do that
