I must apologise to Jon. When he first introduced me to AutoCAD I was very rude to him, asking him to get that shitty product up his … as I thought it was VERY complicated to use and really not worth the effort.
But I’ve changed my mind. I’ve just been in a three-day AutoCAD training course in Crowthorne and it was fantastic! In just three days I have such a better understanding of the programme, and at the end of the first day I had even drawn my first office plan from scratch! I still believe it is a very complicated yet powerful tool, and I only will become 100% confident with it when I get hands on little projects of my own that I can play with.
The problem?
The software costs almost a grand! There’s no chance in hell that I can afford that! But Carl at work has told us that now that there’s a few people in the office who can actually use the software, they are going to buy a few copies. But I want it at home as well! Maybe I should put it in the wedding gift list?
The training has been on the latest edition of Autocad LT: 2009. It is SOOO much better than its predecesors, as it has got a Vista-like interface that makes it very easy to use. Of course, you still have to learn how to use each idividual command, but with practice you can get around. I don’t thinl you have to be a computer wizzard to get a basic knowledge of the programme in just a couple of days. It is THAT user friendly!
I have really found the course fascinating. The teacher was great, he knows so much about autoCAD it is scary. Even the place where the training took place was great, the lunches they gave us of quite high standard (compared to what we actually offer to our visitors in the office).
I just hope now that my workload doesn’t suddenly duplicate because of my newly-developed skill!
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Come to méxico and get it for less than 5€, sometimes even before than in normal market
