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New Beginner Tutorial For You to Check Out
Darren_A_Henry
Onshape Employees Posts: 68 
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Hi. We just posted a new beginner tutorial for our newer users to check out. It is filled with tips for those just getting started with Onshape.
Let me know if you have any comments:
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This is a great quick start tutorial covering a lot of ground. I think it would help a new user to experience some "gotcha"s in a turtorial like this and how to navigate them. Things like not fully defined and its repercussions/risks, non manifold errors, etc… the stuff that trips up most new users and gets posted repetitively on the forums.
Overall this covers a bunch of basic useful techniques in a relatively short form.
Considering how many people are tripped up by fully constraining or even dimensioning sketches, I would put a little more emphasis on getting the first circle coincident with the origin. Later constraints are fairly well explained, but that one seemed like it was glossed over.
The one thing that I would never do is model 1/2 of something like this without some sort of layout to control overall heights. I realize that would be more complicated for a short video, but good practice would be to use variables or a layout sketch if you want to model 1/2 and mirror.
There's some emphasis on how cool it is that the chamfer tool works on multiple parts, but somehow the fact that draft works even though there are fillets is perhaps also glossed over. It does of course depend on where you're coming from. For some other CAD users these things will be amazing, but for others it will seem like "well of course that's how it works".