Hello, sorry to bother you, but you seem like one of the few around tumblr that has fun with CAD. Do you have any suggestions for us who'd love to learn CAD but pretty much has no schooling around us that teach these things? Thank you, love your blog!
I didn't have proper schooling I just learned through trial and error and tutorial videos (youtube is your best friend) and lots of googling/looking at forums. I also have the implicit requirement that I want to own my own tools so I don't tend to use the two largest 3d modeling softwares. The two main ones are Fusion360 (the most popular, but I don't know a good tutorial series for this) and OnShape. OnShape is browser based, Fusion360 is a windows application (get used to that if you want to do CAD work). I personally do 3d printing, and there are loads of youtubers who go into designing for 3d printing. I personally trust TeachingTech. This one uses OnShape.
I currently do my Modeling in FreeCAD, specifically the realthunder/link branch. which i believe is getting merged back into the proper "FreeCAD" soon(tm). I used this tutorial series by keep making.
I personally think he is a bit of a tool. but he showed me enough that I could learn either by trial and error or googling things I wanted to do. Just to avoid headaches, if you want to try FreeCAD i would recommend Ondsel instead, because its built from FreeCAD and includes a lot of things not currently in the stable release of FreeCAD (including the Link Branch I use). I'm simply familiar with the current UI and can't be assed to change.
