I am trying to change career’s, I have been running large photocopiers since school. I liked the job but I felt I could be doing something better with my time. I have not done any further education since when I left school. I went to night school to complete maths and english in city and guilds. I then managed to get funding for a full time course in AutoCAD. I found it very challenging at first but I went on to pass City and Guilds autoCAD level 2. I am finding it hard getting voluntary work let alone a job. Do you have any advice as to what I could do at college that would strengthen my career prospects. I feel I need something alongside autocad and I really want to just draw and work on plans etc. Any help would be appreciated.

That’s interesting, it’s a package that I’ve heard of, but not seen demonstrated. I’ll see if I can get a demo copy to try out.

thanks

Paul

TurboCAD will take longer to learn, but once you understand it, it will give you far more flexibility. You’d be able to draw a kitchen cabinet from scratch in ten minutes, showing it in a different finish, two clicks on your mouse, adding another shelf, seconds. You’ll also have the advantage of being able to save your drawings in thirty file formats, including PDF, enabling you to send proposals to customers that do not have a CAD system. Of course, once you cabinet is drawn, that’s it, you save it into a library and reuse it as many times as you like. In this way you are saving more time as time goes along, because you will slowly build up your own sets of kitchen furniture and effectively have what you’d get with Planit, but with the advantage of being able edit any components in any way. You can also turn your kitchen into perspective and walk through it.

The way I advise people to do it is this:
1 Buy the full Professional package and I’ll give you two training books with over 400 training videos. Go through a couple of exercises in 2D and 3D, until you have a bit of an idea how it goes. You’re welcome to call me if you get stuck.
2 Then, when you have some idea, call me and arrange to come on a training day.

By the end of that you will have a good working understanding and the more you do, the more you’re learn. Doing it this way saves you £254, because all the training comes free.

Paul

Only yesterday I gave a training day at a company just off the M25, who design and fit offices. Much of their work involves sorting out the best layout for the available space. This particular company used furniture from their suppliers, but other companies that I’ve trained build everything bespoke.

People engaged in your area areca consist of a very large number of my customers.

Working out how to get going in 2D is not difficult with one of the new training guides, as they are in written and video form. 3D takes more effort to understand and I’d advise you coming on a training day in Winchester.

The route I advise is as follows. Buy the professional platinum version with both the 2D and 3D training books. After you’ve been through a few exercises, give me a call and arrange a date for a training day. The cost for all of this bought from our site would be £1,249, but book it through me and I’ll only charge you £800, plus you will have full telephone support for when you hit those snags in the early stages of using TurboCAD.

Paul

01962 835 081 (1)

There are various ways that you could start. You could just buy an old version of TurboCAD Deluxe for £30 and at the same time get a couple of the new training books, which include training videos. This would give you a sound 2D training and at the same time show you how the package works and introduce you to 3D. If you get the hang of it you can then upgrade to professional, this would be the cheapest way to start and end up with the top of the range product.
After a while it would be beneficial to come on a one day course. You could cover all this in about four weeks and although will not quite be an expert, you will be able to create 3D perspective drawings of interiors, walk through them and present them as plans and elevations showing lots of different variations of finishes.

Best to give me a call 01962 835 081 (1)

Paul

reading through your website has really interested me, i have a diploma in interior design and really want to futher my career but every job vacancy i consider you need knowledge of CAD, long expensive courses are not really an option as time and money are not on my side. I would be really greatful if you could give me some advice!

Many Thanks
Sharon Fitzjohn