Autocad Training

[foresterRic]

Hi all,

 

I'm interested in doing some autocad training but I'm struggling to find anywhere that focuses on the arb industry. Does anyone know of any training courses available?

 

Cheers

[mrstumpy]

I learned AutoCad during various engineering courses. I would suggest looking toward your local higher education college (tech). Back in the day, they would have dedicated CAD courses in the evening. Obviously it would be engineering/civil engineering based but it is the package you would be learning.

 

I would not recommend AutoCad for arb use, it is not very versatile away from smooth curves and straight lines. I do not know which is the best package but AutoCad would provide a great grounding for all the other CAD packages.

[bellringer]

I am guessing we are talking about the same cad 3D CAD Software | CAD Design | AutoCAD 2014 if so what do you want to learn about it as there is lot of different things to learn from 3D modeling to architecture

[bellringer]

Also auto cad is £4100 a license

[SamWhiting12]

Use SolidWorks , it is soo much better than AutoCAD.

 

I doubt whether you'll find anywhere that teaches autocad specifically for the arb industry. But local colleges (and google and youtube) would be a great place to learn it.

[Paul Barton]

I use KeyTree (Keysoft Landscape - KeyTREE) CAD software. They offer specific training for producing tree survey plans.

[mrstumpy]

I learned the entire package, 2D, 3D, from solid modelling to mesh construction.

 

Any package is better then AutoCad for most things but it does provide a really good foundation to understand how CAD systems work and how other packages are likely to operate.

 

It is completely unforgiving to learn and will teach you how to be more resourceful in learning techniques.

 

£4000 a licence sounds a lot better than 10 years ago. As I recall it was in the region of £15k!!

 

If you do end up going to formal training to learn it (a very good idea) you will most likely find a free, fully operational, corporate copy floating about from one of your colleagues....

[aswales]

I'm trying to get to grips with Dassault systems draftsight, the good thing about it is the cost....there's a free version...

[ScottF]

One of the main reasons to use Autocad over other less costly options is to make use of automation in order to speed up the plotting of trees. A good automated product will take your tabular tree data and draw NESW crown spreads, number the trees, colour-code them, RPAs etc automatically. We do between 120 and 150 tree surveys each year (and increasing all the time) and now that we use automation, I don't know how we managed without it.

 

Paul's mentioned Keytree, but we use Arborcad and find it very easy to use and creates nice, clean drawings.

 

Cost-wise, you can get Autocad LT for under £1000 if you shop around, then add Arborcad for £295.00. Not sure what Keytree costs at the moment.

Edited March 17, 2014 by ScottF

[benedmonds]

Rob at actioncad (he is an arbtalk member) in cheshire used to offer arb specific training I believe. I looked into it several years ago, never did it. I get Rob to do my plans instead, as his are WAY better then mine

 

Tel: 0800 009 6120

Skype: ActionCAD.Rob

email: [email protected]

 

ActionCAD Limited

172 Delamere Street,

Winsford,

Cheshire.

CW7 2NA

 

ActionCAD.co.uk

 

Hi all,

 

I'm interested in doing some autocad training but I'm struggling to find anywhere that focuses on the arb industry. Does anyone know of any training courses available?

 

Cheers