rather than being trained.
What does this mean?
Education means knowing what you are doing and knowing the why of
what's happening while training is just knowing how to use a
particular softeware.
You don't want to be cad operator after aesi, nor do you want to just
mesh model all your life. So when working with a software learn why
and what is actually happening inside rather than focusing on the how's!
Yes how are important but more stress should be put on the why. Once
you understand why and what is happening, you will easily figure out
the how.
So what can you do?
1. Do hand calculations. It will awaken the concepts of what you are
doing in nastran or ansys.
2. Ask why those innumerable options are there. Just entering values
mechanically isn't enough, know why and what this values represnt in
the whole process.
3. Try non defalult values. Try extreme limit vales in the options and
find out what happens.
4. Aim to fail. Failure to mesh, failing to revolve, failing to
analyze will help you more than success in any of this. Failure will
prompt you to look deeper. This is when you will learn what's going
inside the hood. So fail often!!
So these are some steps you can adopt to be educated in a software
rather than being trained.
So look inside the hood. Don't let the software to be just a blackbox,
where you give certain input and you get certain results. Know what's
happening inside.
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