First of all, the most basic, manual mechanical drawing is the basic skill
Any design is created based on your thinking, software is just a tool, and your thinking is the real leader, and hand-drawing is the best way to formally exercise your thinking, spatial imagination and creativity.
The most important thing in mechanical design is knowledge and experience. The so-called 3D software is just a tool. You have to be clear about your position, you are a mechanical design engineer, not a draftsman.
From the perspective of tool selection, Solidworks is the easiest to get started and is more suitable for mechanical part design. For sheet metal, Proe is better, and UG is selected for molds.
CATIA
Widely used in aviation and automobile industries, this software has powerful surface functions. Other 3D surfaces generally only achieve G1 and G2, but CATIA can easily achieve G3 and G4.
SOLIDWORKS
This software is often used in mechanical equipment, non-standard equipment, robots and other industries. It is characterized by being widely used in products with many transmission parts and suitable for motion simulation. There are also many plug-ins for motion simulation.
PROE
Now it has been upgraded to CREO. It is widely used in household appliances, communication electronics, consumer electronics, daily necessities, fast-moving consumer goods and other industries. It is especially good at structural design of complete machine products, such as internal support and connection design of products. Its parametric modeling function is very powerful, and its characteristic is that there are many parent-child relationships, which is very annoying to beginners, but it is deeply loved by veterans.
UG
Widely used in mold design, especially in injection mold and die-casting mold design, more than 80% of mold designers use it and are deeply loved by them. In addition, it is also used by designers of a small number of automobile and its accessories companies.
AutoCAD
The two-dimensional function is very powerful, and the operation is very convenient. It is used by technicians from all walks of life. It is the most widely used two-dimensional drawing software. Commonly used in engineering drawing drawing, editing, labeling, drawing, printing and other operations.
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If you start to learn mechanical design by yourself with zero foundation, what you need to consider may not be the question of which software to learn, but how to supplement knowledge such as size fit, line tolerance, and drawing specifications.
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After you come to the company, you can't choose what to learn. You have to use whatever software the boss and the company use.
