internal training

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Has anyone out here done any internal training within their company? I posted on the SW forum earlier today and I am not getting any hits out there... hoping that someone on this forum might be doing the same thing.

https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/78668?tstart=0

Any help is appreciated.

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
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[ctopher]

Hi Scott,

I have done it here several years ago and plan on doing it again soon.
In the past I just took notes of stuff I know that may be helpful, then start with weekly 1 hour classes for the first month.
They move to once every two weeks, for couple months, then once a month thereafter.

I have a laptop displaying SW on a screen and go over tips and tricks, then also everyone has input if anything they know or different way to do something.
After, I write them down, with screenshots, and post them.

I don't have any of the previous stuff we did because I left the company and came back. All was lost.

Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 13
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[MikeHalloran]

...left the company and came back. All was lost.

As in, IT wiped your old hard drive, destroying the information that was all they had to show for the cumulative money they had paid you?

Yeah, makes perfect sense. ... to an MBA.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[MadMango]

I've done it, mostly just "best practices" type of stuff. This ensures that models with configurations and suppressed features don't get destroyed by other internal groups. The skill level between "engineering" and "document control" and "research" all vary. If you lay down modeling practices early on, or at least at the start of a new project, the integrity of the design files have a much better chance at survival.

I don't have anything to offer as a guide, but I used Word with lots of screen captures.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."

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[ctopher]

Mike,
Yes. My old computer was wiped clean for the new hire to use.
IT does not understand engineering software, files, etc...just computers. Sometimes I think they don't understand computers also.

The "best practices" that MM mentions is also what I have done.
There are various levels of SW users. Some of the least experienced users can't work on models from advanced users.
Training helps bridge the gap.

Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 13
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[MikeHalloran]

Correct: IT management does not understand computers; only politics.
Like pillows, they bear the imprint of the last ass that sat on them.

As in, somebody got upset about some of what was available on YouTube, so IT had to lock us out of YouTube. ... where many of the best SW tutorials are hosted.

So I got the built in tutorials, plus an hour total of whirlwind OJT by an experienced user, who left me a set of ancient SW books before leaving involuntarily shortly thereafter. Then there was no 'us'.

Thank goodness the VAR let me attend a few classes.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[MechEng13]

Scott,

I am doing a similar thing to ctopher and MM, I work with a few of our floor engineers on a weekly basis or whenever I don't get kicked out of the conference room I reserved. We go over tips and tricks, basic modeling stuff. I am tying in our PDM system as well so they can understand the interaction between the two systems. Also, the input and questions they ask usually leads to another sessions topic.

Beyond that we just have fun playing with the stuff they guys are trying to model.



MechEng13

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