Important Concepts/Tips

Make a new Component for every discrete Part
Parameters for everything!
Constraints before dimensions
Keep manufacturing in mind
Draw everything you can (Screws, Cables, etc.)

Learn to use first

• Sketches (especially with constraints)
• Extrude (From/ To Object, Offset)
• Revolve
• Pattern
• Mirror
• Combine (Cut, Merge, Intersect)
• Joint
• Constrain Components
• Fillet
• Chamfer
• Offset Face to add tolerances

Try to avoid

• Delete
• Project
• Too many sketches
• Rib, Web, Emboss
• Split Body

Do not use

• Hole
• Move
• Simple Bodies (Box, Cylinder, Sphere, etc.)
• Scale

Specialty tools that are good to know

Intersect Projection (Cross-section)
Slot tool
3-Point Rectangle (for quick Rectangles on an angle)
Align (mostly for Fabrication)