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I've never used any cad software before but I've been looking into a bunch of them and I think I am going to try to learn Plasticity. Does anyone use this software that may be able to answer a couple of newbie questions?

When I start the program or start a new project it does not start with a blank slate. There is always a cube in the workspace. This cube is over 62 thousand inches in size. Pretty useless for someone with a 10 x 10 inch workspace. There is nowhere in the program to set the size of the workspace that I can find. There is a place to set up the grid but it seems there is no adjustment to the actual work area. If I scale this box down to 10 in x 10 inches on my screen it is just a dot.

I've never used any cad software before but I've been looking into a bunch of them and I think I am going to try to learn Plasticity. Does anyone use this software that may be able to answer a couple of newbie questions? When I start the program or start a new project it does not start with a blank slate. There is always a cube in the workspace. This cube is over 62 thousand inches in size. Pretty useless for someone with a 10 x 10 inch workspace. There is nowhere in the program to set the size of the workspace that I can find. There is a place to set up the grid but it seems there is no adjustment to the actual work area. If I scale this box down to 10 in x 10 inches on my screen it is just a dot.

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I think I'm giving up on the Plasticity. There are tons and tons of beginner videos on YT for it but virtually NONE of them are worth a damn. They skip stuff and don't start with the basics. I found a great beginners course on FreeCAD and so I downloaded it and have started learning it. So far so good.