CADTutor started life in 1995 as a couple of A4 printed handouts designed to help students get to grips with AutoCAD R12 for DOS.

I had recently started teaching computer aided design at the University of Greenwich in the UK and needed to develop some simple teaching materials. I continue to teach at Greenwich but have also been teaching at the University of Kingston, in the UK and have been visiting tutor at the Technische Universitat Berlin at Berlin in Germany, Larenstein University of Professional Education at Velp in the Netherlands and Erasmus Hogeschool Brussels at Vilvoorde in Belgium.

For the last few years, I have also run a number of professional training courses for AutoCAD and Photoshop.

The nature and range of my teaching has meant that I need access to teaching materials wherever I am and the Internet, when it arrived, proved to be the perfect medium for delivery.

As you can see, what started out life as a few brief notes has turned into a mammoth amount of work, all done in my own time. It has, in fact, become a labour of love.

So here it is, never complete, never perfect but substantial and comprehensive. It will continue to grow as my teaching inevitably leads into new areas. Enjoy it, it really is free.

David Watson, August 2001

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CADTutor was awarded the TenLinks "Site of the Week" for the week of 2nd April 2001. The site is also listed number 1 in the top ten AutoCAD tutorial sites.

CADTutor was awarded a 2002-2003 Golden Web Award in April 2002.