your driving than practising it in open grounds. I used the same
analogy to learning catia, solidworks, unigraphics, ansys , and
nastran etc.
I laid out steps that one can take so that even without a real life
example, one can accelerate one's learning of a cad or cae tool.
Here in this post I will discuss why it works?
Why riding on real roads really work?
1. It puts you out of the leisure zone.
2. It presents you unexpected turns.
3. It puts you on the real test.
4. It focuses you not on results but on the process.
5. It presents the situation where you need to apply your knowledge at
every turn.
Same applies for learning a tool. Be it a cad tool like catia,
solidworks or unigraphics or be it an analysis software like ansys,
nastran, fluent etc.
The main advantage is that you disregard the nonsense, superficial
stuff and do the things that's essential and important.
Changing gears at every corner is a skill that one learns when he is
on a real road facing real traffic, same way, while doing a software
with real world examples one learns of different constraints that
never appears while practising a tutorial. And this constraints and
limitations enables you to think and solve the assignments in creative
ways.
So next time you sit to learn a software tool, shun the off repeated
tutorial. Challenge yourself to make something that you can share with
others. Challenge yourself to make something that others will find
usefull. And begin making it. This will teach you 100 times more than
following the steps of 100 tutorials!!
Try it!
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