How are you learning Creo Parametric CAD?

Thanks Scott for the list! I'll probably send it out to whoever I teach CAD to next.

I'm a big fan of the project method as well.I've been helping students on Team 2220 learn CAD for the last 3 years, and almost without exception they pick it up faster and are more motivated when doing something of direct interest to them.

For beginners though, the Primer is really a great guide to very basic modelling techniques-- if you're motivated, it doesn't take too long to get thrrough. Heck, I've been using this software since Pro/E 4 (I know not that long by some standards), and I learned a few new things running some students through it!

One of the most effective things (using any of the above resources) is to have someone already familiar with the software at hand-- most people run into trouble if its their first time using CAD software (I know I did!), and problems can be much more easily solved with a set of experienced eyes nearby.

www.vertanux1.com has some great stuff and the right level for FIRST students...both YouTube videos and instructional step by step is available for free. I like to walk them through some of this stuff and turn them loose on building their own ranger bot using the instructions from the Tetrix site.

Great help! Thank you very much!

How to Model Almost Anything is great, but several of my students complain that it doesn't do enough with parts early enough in the program and prefer the Primer for that reason. I supplement it with a lesson on making the Peg and Peg Block for that lesson. If they can make the peg, block, and assembly, that's 70% of what the robot model will need, so I try to start with a quick intro to the user interface and then get them working on that project.

I also put together a lesson on working with imported STEP files, since we download so many of them.

Great material!   Thanks!

I'm a beginner so keep that in mind as you review my first impressions.

I'm interested in teaching 3D printing to grade 5-11 students in Russia.  Hence we need a low price system.  Creo Paramertic 3,0 Academic is free.  We are thinking about a Monoprice Mini printer which you can get from Amazon for $219. https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Select-Printer-Heated-Filament/dp/B01FL49VZE/ref=sr_1_1?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=147914…

The Academic version of Creo has a STL file output

I'm struggling with the Academic version, however.  Apparently users with the commercial full version cannot read Academic version files.  I've bought a number of Kindle books, I've watched numerous YouTube videos, and looked at the PTC tutorials.  In all cases where step-by-step procedures are described I run into a situation where I can't do what a step requires.  I don't whether the problem is me or the Academic software.  For instance in the above model I've tried without success to eliminate the misalignment of the one plane.

At this point I feel the problem is me.  A good user manual specifically for the free Academic software would be nice.