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Mechanical and product CAD
AutoCAD for 2D drafting, SOLIDWORKS for machine building and Fusion 360 for products and 3D printing: three modellers, one set of habits.
Step 1CADBeginnerAutoCAD 2D and 3D Fundamentals
The drawing tool every engineering office expects: interface, files and navigation, drawing commands, drawing aids, modify commands, blocks, layers and properties, text, dimensions, tables and plotting, a complete beginner course, floor plan, elevation, mechanical and title block exercises, 3D basics, and the intermediate techniques that stop you staying a beginner.
- Navigate the interface, files, units and selection
- Draw with lines, arcs, polylines, circles and hatch using snaps
- Modify with trim, extend, offset, fillet and arrays
Step 2CADBeginnerSOLIDWORKS 3D Modelling, Assemblies and Drawings
Mechanical CAD the way machine builders use it: interface, settings, units and planes, sketching with relations, extrude and revolve, sweep, loft and boundary, fillets, shells, ribs and drafts, patterns, hole wizard and threads, timed practice parts, assemblies and mates, drawings with BOM and exploded views, sheet metal, advanced surfacing, configurations and equations, materials, mass, import and export, and complete beginner courses.
- Set up SOLIDWORKS and sketch fully defined profiles
- Build parts with extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, fillet, shell, rib and patterns
- Assemble parts with standard, advanced and mechanical mates
Step 3CADBeginnerAutodesk Fusion 360: 3D Design, Modelling and Manufacturing Prep
Cloud CAD for makers and product designers: the workspace and the eight terms that matter, sketching with constraints, extrude and revolve, fillets, shells, threads and holes, loft and sweep transitions, patterns and text, thin walls, user parameters, joints and assemblies, surfaces and T-spline forms, mesh and STL repair, moulds, sheet metal, rendering, 2D drawings and animations, with thirty-plus practice exercises.
- Master the Fusion workspace, components, bodies and the timeline
- Sketch with constraints and build parts with extrude, revolve, loft and sweep
- Shell, fillet, thread, pattern and parametrise designs
How the path works
Join the path and every course is added to your account at once, each with its own progress, notes, quizzes and final. Take them in the order shown: each assumes the one before. Module quizzes are five plain questions and the final is twenty, pass mark 50%, with unlimited retries, so the assessment checks that you followed the lessons rather than testing exam nerves.
Questions
- Is the Mechanical and product CAD free?
- Yes. Every course in the path is free in full: lessons, notes, practice tasks and assessments. Joining the path adds all of them to your account in one step. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion for each course.
- In what order should I take the courses?
- In the order listed: each course assumes the one before it. Every course keeps its own progress, quizzes and certificate, so you can also take one on its own.
- Do I get one certificate for the whole path?
- Certificates are per course, issued when you pass that course's final assessment and bought only if you want them. Finishing every course in a path gives you one certificate per course.