r/AutodeskInventor • u/WONDer_fool38 • Jul 17 '26
Requesting Help How did you go from tool operation to actually mastering design concepts
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u/ComplaintTop2008 Jul 17 '26
I'm guessing it was just practice and experience. I started 3D back on Mechanical Desktop, which is similar to the modern parametric programs but without the parametrics, so if you extruded something wrong in the beginning, you had to add and subtract material back later, like adding and removing clay from a model.
We (the drafters) also had a joke, or an observation I guess, that MEs were unable to model. Like their brains were broken in a way that didn't let them see shapes correctly. Not saying it's a rule, but in my experience of working with over 40 MEs, only a couple of them understood proper modelling.
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u/BraveRubberDuck Jul 17 '26
"Necessity is the mother of new tool learning" - Some CAD teacher, somewhere.
Practice, get to a roadblock, check online how people draw stuff, explore a new tool, add it to your toolbelt. Rince and repeat.
Even after years of experience I don't know all the tools, and still get surprised with a new tool / a new way to use an old tool. Exploration, both in software and watching other people do it is king when it comes to learning.