I'm new to CAD software, need help busy designing a trailer

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• ivan_steenkamp Member Posts: 4 ✭

  April 2018

  What i would like to do is to design only the Tube frame for the trailer with 50x50x2 sq tube, 
  
  any help would be greatly appreciated,

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• dick_van_der_vaart Member Posts: 51 PRO

  April 2018

  I think it's better starting watching a few tutorial video's, like this one
  https://www.onshape.com/videos/sketching-basics-onshape
  You can find more of these video's next to the help menu
  Good luck

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• ivan_steenkamp Member Posts: 4 ✭

  April 2018

  Thank you dick, i will have a look at them, have looked at a lot of youtube videos but none of them helped so far

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• dick_van_der_vaart Member Posts: 51 PRO

  April 2018

  And a second tip is to use the Beam Featurescript, that's perfect for creating a tube frame.
  Take a look at this one,
  https://www.onshape.com/videos/creating-weldments
  Succes

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• Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646

  April 2018

  @ivan_steenkamp
  
  It may be helpful to go through the first few courses on our learning center:
  https://learn.onshape.com/collections/onshape-fundamentals-cad
  
  To create new planes to sketch on, you can se the Plane feature:
  https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/cplane.htm
  

  Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team

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• 3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,476 PRO

  April 2018

  About learning cad in general, IMHO
  
  You shouldn't begin with busy project, I would rather take some old work project or hobby project to learn with - too much pressure might make you frustrate. It is possible to learn 3D modeling just using web and asking questions on forum, but if guys&gals in engineering school take courses of few hours a week for couple years or so to learn basics - you can't expect to pull out professional projects after few videos on youtube.
  
  Of course it depends on person and even more on background but I suggest give it at least few months of intensive night training before putting any pressure on schedule. After ~20 years of 3D cad I would say learning never ends and that's what makes this so interesting.
  
  Enjoy!
  

  //rami
  

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• derek_ward Member Posts: 69 EDU

  April 2018

  3dcad said:

  About learning cad in general, IMHO
  
  You shouldn't begin with busy project, I would rather take some old work project or hobby project to learn with - too much pressure might make you frustrate. It is possible to learn 3D modeling just using web and asking questions on forum, but if guys&gals in engineering school take courses of few hours a week for couple years or so to learn basics - you can't expect to pull out professional projects after few videos on youtube.
  
  Of course it depends on person and even more on background but I suggest give it at least few months of intensive night training before putting any pressure on schedule. After ~20 years of 3D cad I would say learning never ends and that's what makes this so interesting.
  
  Enjoy!
  

  Well said! Personally, I like to go around my house and try to model certain objects in it: furniture, tools, etc.. Once you have the ability to replicate something making sonethsom novel will come more natural. 
  

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