Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Riding bike and learning catia what's the connection?

Until you ride bikes on real road, you won't learn it. It's 100% true
for learning to drive a motorbike. And more so for all the software
tools.

Until and unless you are working on a real project you won't learn the
tool. You may know how to use it but driving on the highway, with real
traffic is the place which will hone your skills as a driver and in
the same way on a tool.

But tutorials is what I have, I hear you say. Well then create some
mini challenges. Challenges to produce something worth sharing. Here's
few idea for anyone learning a cad (catia, solidworks, unigraphics
etc) program.

1. Select a place in your house, let's say the bathroom and create all
the bathroom assessories that you see in it in your chosen cad
program. Design from start to finish and present 2d drawing just ready
to be manufactured. Design with an intention of sharing all your model
and cad drawing sheets with the world. Post them online. Let that be
the real project you are working for.

2. Design a bicycle from scratch. Measure one and assemble a whole
unit in your chosen cad program. Make drawing sheets which enables
someone with the drawing to built the bicycle from ground up.

Well I can go on but I will stop here and let you decide how you want
to create your own challenge.

The key thing in this whole exercise is your commitment to share your
results. When you design and cad model with that intention, you will
be in the very state of mind that actual designers are. It's just like
riding on a real road.

In my next post, I will discuss why this method works and things to
remember while doing this kind of exercises.


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