arturo182People telling me to use tutorials to learn Blender, but am I the only one who never uses books, tutorials, or videos and instead learns tools by figuring it out myself and then googling only for specific scenarios? That's how I learned Adobe stuff, KiCad, and Fusion 360 😅
The problem is that Blender, like FreeCAD, is absolutely terrible at discoverability, IMO
tj usiyan@arturo182 What are you talking about? Blender is super discoverable. First, plug in a 5--no 7!--button mouse and voila!
Mark Fraser@arturo182 You should try learning Catia. It's a nightmare - so many hidden tools.
Christian Gudrian@arturo182 Same here. With Blender in particular I end up starting with a tutorial but then wandering off exploring things along the way until I hit the next wall. Discoverability is bad, that's true. But the documentation is usually very good – if you know, where to look, of course. I'm only a once-or-twice-a-year-for-a-couple-of-days type of user. Sufficiently advanced Blender users are indistinguishable from magicians.
BTW: do you know #IanHubert's tutorials?
Animate a Car Chase in Blender - Lazy Tutorials
one of a number of patricks@arturo182 my approach to such tools has been yours- learn by playing, but then in playing I get much more specific questions (“how to make hollow shape manifold”) that then has a way higher success rate at me finding a tutorial
Generic “getting started with x” tutorials are practically clickbait to me