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Clearer English for tutorials

Clearer English for tutorials

My concerns, as I chip away at the Fusion 360 written and video tutorials are two-fold: The first issue is that the tutorials appear to be prepared by users of Fusion who have become so fluent in using the product that they jump over the tiny steps and leave us mystified, sometimes, as to how they got to the end result... The second is that the explanations and defining of the drawing processes and elements are not written in precise English. The explanations I have read, concerning bodies, components and assemblies for example, and how they interrelate, leaves considerable room for improvement, and so it is throughout the tutorials. Your quality management team should pick up the standard of technical writing here. I am also aware that you have people writing this material for whom English is a second language and so this can be a foundation for "not quite getting it right." Tech writing is an art: The writer wears the hat of an absolute novice and "holds his hand" while "nursing" him carefully through every step, being particularly careful to avoid ambiguity or vagueness. I have attached a re-written section of a tutorial, but please allow that my rewriting may still not contain the "correct" explanation because I have had to glean the meaning from what I would consider was a confusing explanation in the first place. Finally, I have written before regarding colour-blindness and how difficult it is for a partially colour-blind person like me to see the snaps against the background, especially the "quandrant" snap. Any progress? Stuart Reid

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daniel_lyall
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It's a good idea but most of whats there is out of date, and how you do it some stuff has changed, It's a hard thing to keep on top off.

 

The way to have it they need to cover all learning styles other than visual, that's what the video's are for.

Then it's down to what type of English should they use plane, American, UK  or tense.

 

They have a team that does it, they way you would like it to be is different to how I would like it to be, that's learning styles for ya.

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