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Adam O'Hern is an industrial design consultant specializing in visual brand languages, and has designed products ranging from laptops to power tools, classroom toys to bathroom fixtures, and robots to lint rollers. He has published with 3DWorld Magazine, CGTuts+, and Luxology, and works with Josh Mings of SolidSmack.com on EngineerVsDesigner.com. |
I’m working on switching from rhino to solidworks over the summer, so a beginner’s guide comparing the interfaces/hotkeys/workflows would be awesome!
Hi Damien! Welcome to cadjunkie :)
It’s all there, my friend! Click on the Tutorials > SolidWorks at left, and we’ve got several training series’ that should be a great start. Some are free, and some are for premium subscribers only.
SolidWorks is a completely different mindset from Rhino, so it would be best not to look for comparisons, and rather focus on learning SW from scratch. I find that often times the students who have the most trouble with SW are the ones who were best with Rhino; somehow the mindset is really incompatible, and takes quite a while to un-learn.
That said, once you know both Rhino and SW, you can drive pretty much any CAD package on the market without too much trouble :)
Have fun!
Adam
More SolidWorks! More consumer product tuts? I really enjoyed the coffee press and spoon tut.
Glad to hear you found them useful. There’s lots more available for members, and lots more members-only content on the way! :)
Dear Adam, I’m sorry for my horrible-horrible English, but I really wonna say. There are so many lessons for beginners, there are so many lessons about solid and modo. Of course, your tuts are best of the best, but if you’ll teach about CATIA and Studiotools, I would sell my soul for membership.
Haha, thanks for the support, Simon! We will see what we can do about that :)
If you had to choose between Rhino and Solidworks Which would it be? Please explain why.
Thanks
Hi Scott, sorry for the ridiculously delayed response; things have been nuts around here lately!
You ask a big question, and the answer is longer than I care to write here on my iPhone (currently awaiting my flight at LAX).
In short, I tend to favor parametric packages like SolidWorks for my own work. The type of work really dictates the “right” tool for the job, but I have tended to find that I prefer being able to make changes to my models as I’m working, or when the client requests a change.
I recommend poking around cadjunkie a bit mire, as there is actually a lot of helpful info on this subject.
Best of luck!
Adam
Adam
The one tut that you did of an ‘Arch-Viz’ nature, that I think was entitled ‘Snapping’ or something, over at CG Tuts (I think) and that was the reason that I signed up to CAD Junkie. Is there any chance that you would be able to elaborate on that topic. I found that one tutorial to be more helpful than any other I have come across on the interwebs.
I mean, it helped me because I could relate to that from an engineering perspective as it was dealing with absolutes as opposed to lining up ‘by eye’. Not only that but you introduced the GE(?) site which gave presets for lighting.
I remember sitting through the whole tutorial with a big stupid grin on my face as I felt I had struck 3D Modelling Tutorial gold.
Can I just include a minor disclaimer… It is Saturday night and I may be slightly inebriated, in fact one may be inebriated out of ones own verbosity, so if I don’t make too much sense I may have to repost tomorrow :)
Makes perfect sense, Mick. I would definitely like to do another interior space at some point soonish. The precision tools in modo aren’t great, but are many lesser-known tools and techniques that I find helpful.
Stay tuned!
I appreciate all the tutorials to be quite frank. I think more 2D stuff would be a nice well-rounded touch as well. Keep up the good work Adam!
S
Thanks, Simon! The 2D stuff has always been tricky to justify, because there are just so many other sources for that information. I agree that there are a lot of ID-specific 2D things we could cover, so I’ll definitely keep that in mind. Anything in particular you’re hoping for?
I guess that my branding experience has led me to believe that I see a potential for the site to be so much more than ‘cadjunkie’. As contradictory as it sounds, I see the site as being an overall ‘design technique learning’ hub from all angles. From your career dev articles to the most complex cad tuts, it seems like cadjunkie could be an arm of a rather gigantic, possibly open-sourced, design-learning monster.
just sayin. keep it simple still.
S
Thanks, Simon! I completely agree, and would love to eventually be able to cover a broader range of design topics. Since my bandwidth has thus far been limited by what I’m able to accomplish on my own, I’ve been forced to focus my attention on very specific subject matter. As the site grows, however, I definitely hope to expand into other areas. Thanks again for your support!
Adam