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but only 2/3 the fun. 
Good Luck
Definition of a burocrate; Delegate, Take Credit, shift blame.
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Try learning Solidworks! I’ve been using it for the last 15 years and still find new ways of doing things! Mind you, its user interface leaves a lot to be desired - no consistency across functions! It’s as if it was designed by disparate teams all with their own idea on how to implement the functionality
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I've spent years with TurboCAD and have a pretty good handle on it.
Plus I have the Platinum version, which ain't cheap. (without subscription, which I am against)
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Like everything else these days, YouTube videos.
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very few on this topic
diligent hands rule....
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this info is great!
diligent hands rule....
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Simple. Practice. Practice. Practice. You will find yourself in Carnegie Hall.
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Not in today's market. I know a trumpet player who had to quit the biz and become a security guard to put bread on the table.
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Did he/she master the trumpet? Sounds like she/he had gigs. Classical? Jazz?
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He mastered it in college, did cruise ships, then Vegas. Huge downsizing in business because bean counters took over, etc...
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diligent hands rule....
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The quickest way to learn anything is to go all in. Doesn't matter if it's software or a new language. Devote all your time to it and 10,000 hours later you might know a thing or two.
Jeremy Falcon
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When I'm learning a new "thing" nothing else exists until I nail it -I think I may be a tad autistic
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: I think I may be a tad autistic
Maybe... but people always want to label something that's not the norm... even though the norm will always produce mediocre results by it's very nature. I do the same. Methinks you're just focused.
Jeremy Falcon
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I have a small project to do and do not have enough time
diligent hands rule....
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About the software, I didn't know that one, thanks.
Last time I had to make 2D things I went for NanoCad, very similar to older versions of AutoCad that I had seen in college.
About the learning point... (I now speak about SketchUp, I learned parallel to working in 2D with NanoCad)
I started looking at the context help of each button, then I tried to make some things on my own with that small knowledge, once I found enough "fvck you" moments, I went to youtube and searched for a good content creator (took me a couple of days to find someone good), have a look to his way of doing things. Go back and start working on my own again.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Patience, diligence and practice. There are no shortcuts.
Having said that, some CAD packages are fairly intuitive, and others not. Of the ones I used in my day, Autocad was gruesome, possibly the worst software UI I have ever encountered. Daxcad (now defunct, I believe) and Silverscreen were a delight to use. I found Fastcad and several other light- to middleweight systems somewhere in between, neither particularly easy to use, nor particularly difficult.
Golden rule is RTFM and keep it handy!
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knowing the actual domain is really useful when learning a new software.
if you want to learn to use a CAD software, knowing what CAD is and what is the terminology and how things are done helps.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I struggled at first to learn Fusion 360 (my 6th or 7th CAD system?).
I found a great step by step tutorial on YouTube. I watch the video at double speed to get the gist of it, then follow along at home. After each step I stop the video and parrot the step. The devil is in the details!
It's pretty easy - watching the video I press space, alt-tab to F360, do the step, alt-tab back to YouTube, press space to play. Rinse and repeat.
This really helped me learn the important but sometimes tiny details required to get F360 to work.
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at least in the United States
4/20/2024
backward is
4/20/2024
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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And a proper 2024-04-20 as per international standard?
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Obviously it doesn't work, which is why I specified US.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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So I got to thinking... dangerous I know. But curious to know how many peeps unit test their code. IMO some arguments can be made for not doing BDD/functional testing, but unit testing is hard to say "that's a bad thing" for.
I know for me, I used to loathe the concept of unit testing. It was like just as boring and tedious as documentation (that nobody ever reads). That was right up until it saved my bacon a few times. Prior to that experience, I've only ever seen devs write crappy tests that were useless and thus considered it a feel-good exercise for a green checkmark. Didn't really think about the dev just being lousy at writing tests. Still don't do TDD though, but fo sho do unit tests after development.
Anyone here big into unit testing? Yay? Nay? Has cooties?
Jeremy Falcon
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No I don't Unit Test but I QA to nth degree. I find that the kind of apps I write are not easy to Unit Test and the effort to learn and then to implement is not worth my time.
Maybe that's why it takes forever for me to release an app.
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