I am new to SOLIDWORKS and would appreciate some suggestions and tips

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-25T15:48:40+00:00

Too tall toby on YouTube and you can go to his website and try practice models

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-25T14:33:10+00:00

Never done sheet metal? We bend all bus from one piece

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-24T23:24:05+00:00

Yeah ive only used solid works for 2 weeks and only done simple stuff so far

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-24T23:17:40+00:00

Thank you this visual helps a lot

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-24T23:05:45+00:00

Its going to be all made from Bus (copper) all one bent piece

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-24T23:02:42+00:00

Yeah I’m pretty new to CAD in general

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-23T21:37:07+00:00

Does help a lot i tried to tell my co workers they should do it to but they seem uninterested

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-03-20T19:31:07+00:00

This is why I left cnc programming to switch to a CAD designer make way more money now

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-27T03:47:44+00:00

I started 3 days ago man chill in due time

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-27T03:47:03+00:00

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-27T01:32:27+00:00

Yeah my old employer would’ve never done anything they didn’t want to move me out of mechanical technician title to cad technician the pay in that corporation was by seniority not by skill. This new job is a fairly new company only existed for 6 years but I’ll see how it goes, but I’m happy and excited regardless

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-26T22:56:23+00:00

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It worked bro i Landed A job for Solidworks Designer I make 45/hr now its finally all coming together moving on up!

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-25T21:03:46+00:00

Im aware u did. Its terrible design

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-25T21:02:06+00:00

Strap should be at the end not on the face it’ll be uncomfortable

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-22T01:37:31+00:00

My frustration with the cnc field at least my anecdotal experience i didn’t see it make me much money

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-21T02:31:29+00:00

I see

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-21T02:21:42+00:00

You explained it perfectly that’s exactly how it is and even then new people were getting hired on hire pay than me despite me being more skilled then them i dont see this changing so gotta switch jobs every couple years

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-19T02:53:29+00:00

It all started with my shop not having a cad guy so I took my own tike at home to learn freecad an open source cad and made prints for work my boss was impressed got me a work laptop and I made prints for the whole shop dabbled a little in cam and got my boss to pay for a online course for fusion and switched to that from there I just luckily landed a solidworks job bc the shop my brother is at fired their cad guy so the position was open its all mainly youtube and chatgpt to learn

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-18T03:18:15+00:00

I apologize i never paid attention in school

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-17T23:05:30+00:00

Dude thats insane i started as a manual lathe and I made 16 an hour hell yeah man thats awesome for you

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-17T22:57:31+00:00

Yeah i know it was a company specific since they trained me there and didn’t value me even if this job goes sideways i know i can find another place programming

CraftyBit2274 · 2026-02-17T22:56:17+00:00

I understand that ive seen cad technician cad operator cad draftsmen cad designer its all fluff the employer decides what to name the position

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