Which NX Sketcher should I use? (Rant/Question)
2 months ago, I started as a Manufacturing/Process Engineer at a big engineering company where we use NX. Since I've been using SolidWorks and free CAD software for around 3 years, I had a high degree of confidence in my CAD skills and figured that I would be able to pick up NX pretty quickly. But over the past couple of months, I've been struggling with it, and just feel that it's just very unintuitive. Although I'm still able to design parts & assemblies in it, I can't help feeling like I would have completed tasks hours or even days earlier if I had just designed it in a software I'm more familiar with. There were times when I was seconds away from logging into my Onshape account, designing in there and exporting the Step files.
I talked with other older engineers at my company (some of whom haven't touched CAD in like 10 years), and they all said that they used NX a lot throughout their careers and never had a problem with it, and actually adopted it as their go-to software. Hearing this, I thought they were crazy until I realized a lot of my struggles with NX actually mainly stemmed from its modern sketcher. The older sketcher seems to function more like the SolidWorks sketcher, which seems to be the industry standard. I realized my older colleagues were likely reminiscing about the old sketcher.
So I'm conflicted right now. I've heard that NX is widely used in design and R&D across high-performance industries (Automotive, Aerospace, etc.), but do they use the modern sketcher in these industries? Is it worth it to get proficient at using the modern sketcher? Or should I just use the older sketcher, which I am more comfortable with? I just don't wanna miss the opportunity to learn the modern sketcher style if that's what is common / going to be in the industry.