

Personally, I would stick with OnShape - and learn it yourself from the tutorials / videos. There is one major flaw with Solidworks though - there is no option to save your work as an older version, which means if you have the most up-to-date version and send it to someone who's copy is 6 years old (happens to me regularly) then they can't just open it up. There's nothing wrong with AutoCad for 2D, I used to use LT98. stp files over the last few years, we're not equipped to handle them in house, we're only a little company, we're not like Siemens or GE. Only downside is i have a big assignment due on Wednesday and haven't done a bit of it todayĮxport a. Only thing is i am trying to figure out how to export it in Pdf or something so i can give it to the engineering crown.

Design my spacer for the crankshaft of my V8. I downloaded sketchup and bloody hate it, so have been playing with OnShape all day and getting the hang of it. Would mean i would have to skip it for 7 weeks I'll see what modules i have next semester I have college two nights a week and the course is on one of the college nights.

May be worth having a read at it just to get you started. So it may well be better to start learning with Looking through it, it looks a lot more indepth than the tutorials and has 1170 pages I have recently decided to have another go with solidworksĪnd have managed to source the bible for the program. If i remember, using solidworks there is a facility to migrate from AutoCad to solidworksīut i havent really used it and couldnt really get to grips with solidworks.īut a lot of companies are using it as AutoCad is becoming so expensive for a license nowadays. Yes you can do solid modelling in AutoCadīut then you need to learn its add-ons such as Inventor, Architechtural etc Many things have obviously changed since Using AutoCad R14 (Most evenings i was still on the computer at 1-2 in the morning)Īn evening class may only get you to learn the basics. However, this was condensed into a one year course, 3 days at college

Just as an insight, i did an HNC in AutoCad 15 years ago.ĭue to the size of the course it was supposed to be a two year course.
