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Having absolutely no previous experience with CAD, I got 2006 as part of a retraining setlement and upgraded to 2007 for my personal use, and possibly to go into as a career.
Playing around with it I've found a few quirky things which have made it a frustrating learning process:
1. Simple example- drew a rectangle(standard icon), defined length of two sides, and made them perpendicular to each otherand opposite's parrallel, but the shape became either over-defined and brought up error boxes or still under-defined.
2. Couldn't find a way of drawing lines on surfaces to be able to split them and make seperate entitys.
3. Tried using a picture of a car as a background and tracing the outline to make a 3D object out, but it seem like there's is not any other way(this feature was one of the selling for '07).
Igetit.com (had) some free introductory training videos that were pretty good, and has a 1year subscription for $100.
For basic freehand designing without the CAM, Form-Z looked like a good product. I'm sure there are plenty more.
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Meanwhile other things are still happening.
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