4d ago
inChatted with a fresh grad who only knows CAD, missing the basics?
Totally agree with @kevinc52. Learning manual drafting in school forced me to actually visualize how parts fit together before making a line. I remember spending hours on an exploded view drawing, which made me think about assembly order in a way CAD never did. That mental model stuck with me. Now when I model in 3D, I'm not just extruding shapes, I'm building the thing in my head first.