Sid0201 Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Morning! I have been asked by a collegue if I have any notes or starter activities for his son who has taken an interest to CAD and is due to start a CAD course in september. The lad wants to have a go so he has an understanding of the basic controls, I dont have any reminants of my CAD course apart from a portfolio of the work I did as all the notes had to be handed back to the college to be used for the following years students (makes no sense I know!!). So my question to you all is do you have anything that might help? or do you know any websites etc that may have this info on them? Cheers Sid! Quote
Tyke Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Not too sure if your lad has access to AutoCAD and if so which version. Below are a couple of links that might be useful, but do a Google search and you'll come up with lots of other sources. Best of luck. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/AutoCAD#Point http://www.meadinfo.org/2010/09/download-autocad-2011-training-books.html http://aboutcivil.com/autocad-ebooks.html Quote
vicburman Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 hi just to let you no that AutoCad is different on Mac than it is on Windows so depending on what operating system will determine on how hard u want to learn. Im in uni doing my BSc honours in Architecture Design Technology and i am having to do twice the work in a way (but i don't mine) i learn cad in lectures then when i get home i learn it on Mac happy learning all the best Vic Quote
Dadgad Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 This is a very good basic introduction to the whole topic of Autocad http://www.we-r-here.com/cad/ A really good place to start, it is where I started teaching myself 4 years ago. Quote
Sid0201 Posted July 30, 2012 Author Posted July 30, 2012 erm I think he will be using draftsight to begin with however because my company is thinking of taking him on as an apprentice he may be allowed to use one of the work laptops with AutoCAD 2010 LT on it... I think he has a windows pc but its definatly worth checking if he has a mac... I'll have a look at those 4 links and send them on to him! cheers fellas! Quote
ReMark Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 DraftSight is very similar to AutoCAD so I don't think it will matter too much either way which program he uses. Quote
Ollie8974 Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Books I have found useful are the "AutoCAD No experience Required" series. If he is registered at school for the class. Get a student Email account and download a 3 year license for the Educational version. If he is not registered yet he can down load a 30 day trial version. Quote
JD Mather Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Students of any age anywhere in the world can get the next-generation Autodesk products for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity learning material there as well. Pick desired field of interest and start learning the next-generation tools. Quote
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