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I agree this is a good post to be pinned except for the red warning about Cowboys on YouTube. I feel this small section should be removed if it is considered to be pinned to the Forum.
John Hackney, Retired
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@Fully_Defined wrote:
I think the OP contradicted himself with #8 in the first list, but I mostly agree with him. Generally, I NEVER change feature or sketch names, or anything at all in the feature tree (what is that called in Fusion BTW?), but I go to town in parameters. THAT'S where you name stuff.
Let's not mistaken our own personal preference for general best practice.
I don't rename a lot of stuff either. Sometimes I rename sketches but almost never Timeline items.
I use parameters sparsely, usually not more than 10.
I find it much easier to see a dimension/parameter in context in a sketch, for example.
In the last three sentences I used "I" 4 times. Personal preference 😉
@Fully_Defined wrote:
I worked extensively on, and then walked away from, a Musical Machine X project featured on YouTube. I have seen the results of people who have no prior concept of best practices reading message boards and watching YouTube videos and then creating the worst CAD nightmares you have ever seen. I had to clean up after them! A common theme was to rename absolutely everything, have zero parameters and make assemblies with no mates. They're learning this somewhere.
Yep, we see this here not infrequently on the forum. They are "picking this up" from somewhere. I distinctly avoid the term "learning" and refer to the red highlights section in the original post. I would not necessarily call folks "cowboys" but would refer to a lot of youtubers as equally clueless hobbyists.
In this age of easy online access to unverified and unqualified information, unfortunately the value of true teaching by a competent instructor and the value of learning by practicing and discourse seems to be on the decline.
Marketing materials suggest you can pick up a new skill TODAY. Folks that have less than a decade of professional experience in a given field propose to be able to create a Master Class of .. really anything. Regardless of any training in pedagogy.
What you/we are experiencing is the result of what I describe here. Its not a singular cause that is easy to fix!
@Fully_Defined wrote:
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I appreciate Rule #0
I do too, which is why I asked the powers-that-be if we can make this a sticky post.
@evanp4509U4JZ wrote:
I am curious if you could point me in the direction of a project with step by step instruction on best practices and explanation of why it is best. I think it would be greatly beneficial to have a video of start to finish sketching and modeling to end up with the best product. Explanations of why things were done which way and in what order would be tremendously helpful.
That would indeed be a great contribution 😉
The Animated GIF will show you how.
John Hackney, Retired
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