Tutorials - From a drawing to a cutting example

[Rogue]

I never watch videos of people showing you how to use a program. They're almost exclusively slow and inefficient. If the program in not intuitive then I find the 'paper' tutorial, or help file. It's so much easier and quicker to just skim that document to find the required information than follow a video.

Everyone has their own way of learning. Sometimes you just need to see something happen. I'm not a big fan of video tutorials for software in general but they have a useful place alongside written tutorials. There have been a few things that just didn't make sense until I saw it done.

If by "slow and inefficient" you mean that the tutorials do not take the shortcuts you use, then you are missing the point. Learn first, get fast later. As long as the tutorials are not giving blatantly bad information then they are fine. Once someone has built up some experience with the software, they are ready to learn the shortcuts.

There are some very good video tutorials for SolidCam that I found to be an excellent complement to the written materials (and can be found here if anyone is interested: http://www.solidcam.com/solidcam-professor.html). Each to their own, one supposes.