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by testcase_delta 2079 days ago
I learned CAD last year for work and my prototype turnaround times went from weeks to days to same day. Truly game changing for me. I can iterate an idea 5 times faster at least, not to mention hundreds of times cheaper (in some cases $800 part down to ~$5 part)

Even faster would be better, but print speed often isn't the bottleneck, solving engineering problems often is.

That said, of course faster would be better.

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What do you do for a living? I am purely a hobbyist, I have a bit of CAD experience and think I would be interested to do CAD professionally but have no idea where to start.
Hi, sorry just saw this today. I'm self taught and invent things that I sell myself, so I'm not really sure about what getting into CAD for a larger business looks like.