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Febuary’s Offers

I now have about six 2 CD Geoff Malthouse woodwork training CDs. They were written for versions 11 to 14, but I’m sure would still be relevant for 15 and 16. Just send me a mailing address and mention the offer and I’ll stick them in the post.

I have a dozen Pro v14 Mechanical and a dozen v14 Architectural which you can have for £70 each.

I have one cheap copy of DoubleCAD. It costs £425 + vat, but can let it go for £200.

TurboCAD for Mac v3 2D £20

TurboCAD Mac v4 2D plus either a 2D training book or CD for £35. Normal price for the pair is £80.

Animation Lab, normally £120, throughout Feb for £50.

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I have a pile of packages of CLIP ART, they boast of 3.5 million images. They come free with any purchase or £10 if bought separately.

Call me on - 01962 835 081 (1)

The majority of companies these days are looking to find savings in their operational costs. Being forced to look at alternatives to common practice may for some bring unexpected benefits. It’s the law of unforeseen circumstances.

So for all of you paying year in year out sky high prices for your CAD software click here to read more.

Adding an extension

All planning authorities require drawings and most now get to them electronically via the Planning Portal. A landlord planning an extension has two choices. Firstly pay someone else to do the drawings, or secondly simply put in a couple of days training to learn how to do it yourself. If you do it yourself you have more control, you are not relying on anyone else and you’ll save their fee for drawing what in reality is a simple drawing.

Refurbishing

Planning ahead will always save time and money. A simple CAD drawing will enable you to estimate materials needed more accurately. It will ensure complete understanding between client and builder with no room for dispute. It will also ensure that you always have a record of the job, with details of electrics, plumbing and other parts of the fabric of the building should you ever need to return.

Maintenance

For the same reasons as above an electronically stored drawing of a building can hold far more information than you might put in your paper files. Suppliers, dates of work carried out are all easily added to a drawing meaning that when an issue arises, you can access the history of a building by simply opening one file.

None of the above is difficult to learn or expensive. For a £100 you can have the Deluxe version of TurboCAD and a 2D training book including video tutorials and short videos on how each tool works. After you’ve had a bit of practice, book a one day course in Winchester, £170, and you’ll be on your way, able to draw and print out plans and even do a bit of 3D work. In a couple of months just putting in an hour a day you will be able to draw complete houses in 3D and walk through them on your screen.

Sooner or later all this type of work will be stored in this way, you either get going now or loose out to others.

As well as helping TurboCAD users solve practical drawing problems, I’m sometimes asked if I know trusted CAD Professionals that can undertake special jobs, either as one-offs, or as a resource that companies can use on a regular basis when they’ve got more work on than they can manage. These can range from simple Drafting Projects in 2D in either the areas of architecture or engineering to more complicated modelling in 3D, please read more on this on our page…

Paul The CAD

I have 20 Training CDs for the TurboCAD Constraint Manager. They were written for version 10, but are stand alone disks and will explain the workings of the tool, which is only included in TurboCAD Professional.

Anyone wants one just give me a call and I’ll put it in the post.
Paul The CAD
01962 835 081

I have now included a new part to the site under TurboCAD Professionals, in this section I will include some companies that I know of that use TurboCAD in their different professions. I will also include drawings that they have completed using TurboCAD, I feel that this area of the site will become very useful to you if you are looking for examples of what can be done, but also, if you need someone to do something using TurboCAD.

Paul The CAD

The majority of companies these days are looking to find savings in their operational costs. Being forced to look at alternatives to common practice may for some bring unexpected benefits. It’s the law of unforeseen circumstances.

So for all of you paying year in year out sky high prices for your CAD software, why not drop your preconceptions about less expensive software and give it a chance. Every week I demo TurboCAD to companies who are either just starting up in the CAD world, or who are appalled at the price that Auto Desk want to upgrade. I can say with total confidence that nineteen out of twenty of these demonstrations result in a sale.

Paying more does not necessarily give you more of what you need. It may just give you a load of stuff that you don’t need, which will simply get in your way, resulting in tasks taking longer than they should.

TurboCAD is not the world’s top selling CAD package in retail for nothing. You can design a home extension in 2D with AutoCAD LT for about £1,000 or you can Buy TurboCAD 2D Designer for £30, it’ll do the same job and will deal with far more file formats enabling easy file compatibility which you will not get with AutoCAD LT.

On the engineering side, the list of companies that I sell into that had previously been using either Inventor of Solid Works grows every week.

As well as these above, landscape gardeners, kitchen and bathroom designers, door and window manufacturers, archeologists, surveyors, boat builders…the list of professionals using the package just goes on and on.

And the icing on the cake is that there is no annual licensing fee, no fee for either practical or technical support and a free training day, or training books, come with every professional sale.

Have a look around this website for some more ideas

Paul Tracey

More TurboCAD training is available this month.

Please click here to find out more.

Based in Winchester, Hampshire, with Paul The CAD himself!

Don Cheke is launching the 2009 TurboCAD Challenge on the 1st June entitled ‘Designing the Universe’. So anyone out there with a drawing worth shouting about or has the time to put something a bit special together by the end of the month check out the link below.

There is a selection of prizes and it’s always interesting to look at the work of others and try and work out just how they achieved some of their results.

I just wish I had the time to try my hand myself, although I’m sure my efforts would be humiliated by the likes of Richard Brehm. There is a new link to Richard’s site under my ‘Professionals’ section, the images can only be described as very impressive, have a look.

Please follow the link to submit your work Designing the Universe.

Paul The Cad

Decipher UK Ltd are a national impartial grant broker who work nationally with the grant schemes to help companies in the Engineering, Manufacturing, construction & high tech sector’s access the EU grants which may be available to them; companies have already had TurboCAD training under the grant schemes. There is no charge for the service and they complete all the paperwork and applications for you.

If you would like to check eligibility or make an application please contact lhindle@decipheruk.com or epaganini@decipheruk.com or call 0844 5040077

Please go to our Training page to see any dates that we have coming up.