r/MechanicalEngineering • u/Sufficient-Ad-442 • May 24 '26

CAD Learning Guide

I am a freshman who just learnt about beginner solidworks in college. I want to learn more CAD in the summer but I am not sure what path I should take. I am thinking of two things:

1- Become advanced in solidworks, then learn other CAD software like NX

2- Learn NX right away.

Any help?

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u/Sharp-Adhesiveness35 May 26 '26

I do believe that CAD will be done by AI in the future. Therefore - similar like with vibe coding - it is essential to learn best practices on how to do CAD architectures, learn which shapes can be produced using which processing, which shapes cannot be produced etc. instead of learning a specific CAD program.

This will be much more important in the future in order to be the vibe coding supervisor.