How to Learn Autocad Online
AutoCAD is a popular graphic design program that is often used in architecture and manufacturing to draft plans for buildings or draw new products. The advanced software can create both 2-D and 3-D images, which makes it a desirable design program for builders. People who work in AutoCAD have usually had years of training in the program, which contains many different features and functions. If you want to attempt to learn AutoCAD on your own, there are a few places online that can get you started, but it can be a difficult program to master.
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Check out CADTutor (www.cadtutor.net). CADTutor has over 80 free CAD tutorials, plus tips of the day and a forum.
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Go through the courses and tutorials offered on My CAD site (www.we-r-here.com/cad). This free sites contains lessons for both beginners and more advanced CAD users.
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Sign up at the CAD Institute (www.cadinstitute.com). These are real college courses in CAD that are offered at different universities. You will have to pay a fee to go through a course, but the lessons are led by PhD level instructors. If you have a hard time learning new things on your own, this could be beneficial.
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Try the Universal Classes AutoCAD Fundamentals class (www.universalclass.com/i/crn/6542.htm). This instructor-led course teaches all of the CAD basics and has a very low price tag ($29 in July 2009). The course is not always open for enrollment though. You can keep up-to-date on when the AutoCAD Fundamentals class is available by submitting the "Request Information" form on the site.
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Look into Lynda's Online AutoCAD Tutorials (www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=361). In order to use the wide variety of software tutorials available on the Lynda site, you will need to sign up for an account. This allows you to access all of the video courses in the Lynda Online Training Library. If you want to get an idea of what Lynda has to offer, there are six AutoCAD courses available for free preview.
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