This book provides few (and terse at that) explanations of the purpose of functions. It helps to have had prior introductions to CAD. Appears the authors never heard of page breaks. There were a few missing steps.īiggest gripe is that instructions are on one page while the images supporting the instructions are on the next page. The issues are numerous errors in the tutorials, including a few wrong instructions. Working through the first half of "Basics Tutorial" and now most of "Learn by Doing," I am doing ok and have been able to build some stuff.īased on that, scoring this book is tough since it has been successful. I'm a structural analyst, and our model-building methods are significantly different philosophically than CAD, so I had trouble adapting to the different mindset. I am not a CAD guy, although I have taken a few CAD classes over the years. There are some differences, but fortunately, the developers of FreeCAD kept menus and icons in their prior places (and their names). This tutorial will get you going on FreeCAD. That book is superior in every way if a newer learner of CAD and FreeCAD. They list it in the other order and sometimes don't include the starting menu name.īelow is a copy-paste of my review of their cousin book "Learn by Doing". file -> save as -> select dir -> type filename -> save button. This is purely a rote statement of menu-item by command by command after the other.Īnd worse yet the authors do not call out the menu in the order of access e.g. ![]() How do they justify that and not provide ANY explanations of what they are doing nor why. ![]() I would be glad to send them my book with the markups.įor some bizarre reason, they call this a BASICS Tutorial. However, it would have been so easy for the authors to have done it well, or at least fix it in the next one. "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - G.
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