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Hello everyone, John here, mostly happy new user!

I am trudging my way through the Udemy videos and related content and mostly picking up the concepts and practice pretty quickly with an iPad and Apple Pencil.

But a lot of these videos go by really fast, with instructors that have mouse and keyboard commands and I’m finding it frustrating to try and learn things. I just did the basic extrude video and it took me three hours to get through a 15 minute video by rewinding it dozens of times.

Is there anyone in these forms who can coach me over Zoom or some similar situation? I’m pretty facile technically and willing to learn new ideas in new ways. And happy to pay, I simply need to find someone who can understand my beginner status and walk me through a series of skills and exercises.

The original Getting Started videos were fantastic because they had a step to make inside the context of the app itself, which I loved! But there are only two of them, unless I’m mistaken.

I was encouraged to make this posting by Cesar at the Shapr3D technical support group, which I found to be helpful. Thank you Cesar!

My direct email and the best way to reach me: john@arctyp.com

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A good thing to do is to conceptualize something you want to try and make and ask the group “How would you go about this?”. Start simple. Be descriptive about what you want.

Always search the forum for answers first if you can. Many nice people here have made fantastic min tuts for guys like us.

Shapr has many ways to achieve the same thing.

I am a design on the fly guy. I invent as I go, or look at other’s stuff and think “This is how I would make it better”. I rarely draw up a complete concept but my needs are relatively simple… for now. Mostly works it just works for me.

However my methods do not translate to pro cad user. Often my designs conflict with History based Cad design. But that isn’t a deal breaker for me. I was with Shapr before the history thing. If there was a switch I’d just turn it off. Now on complex designs I would regret that choice.

The thing about this Shapr group is it is unlike other Pro Cad groups, we aren’t stuffy around here. Some of them will shun you if you don’t have a degree in Cad and ask for help. Lord help you! :grin: