Summer CAD School - 8 Free Online Training Resources for Govies

The dog days of summer have arrived and what perfect time than to grab 5, 30 or even 60 minutes to brush up on your CAD skills.

Whatever your discipline, staying ahead of the curve is essential, but with tight government budgets training isn’t always that easy to come by.

Good news! We’ve put together a cross-section of upcoming webinars and online training that won’t cost you a dime. Go ahead, register for one today and surprise your boss with new ways of thinking and doing!

1. On-Demand Videos: Lynn Allen Video Library of AutoCAD Tips and Tricks

Follow this link to find a treasure trove of video tips and tricks from everyone’s favorite CAD expert, Lynn Allen. The Cadalyst Video Gallery hosts every tip and trick contributed by Lynn Allen as she guides us through a different AutoCAD feature.

2. Autodesk University Online

Whether you were able to make it to AU last year or not, check out the more than 200 free classes that are now posted to AU Online.

Online classes that will be of particular interest to government users include:

3. Webinar: Keys to a Successful BIM Pilot Series: Get your Office to Adopt and Work with BIM

Having a hard time getting your office to adopt, or effectively work with BIM? Let Laura Kay Smith (aka, The BIM Freak) show you some of the ways she discovered to promote BIM in her office.

  • Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015
  • Time: 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
  • Register now.

4. Webinar: Visualize, Collaborate, and Validate with Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite

Join Synergis Engineering Design Solutions as they show you how you can plan, design, build and document civil infrastructure projects. From conceptual to final design, take designs from Infraworks to Civil 3D, and back. See how the data dynamically updates, seamlessly, so you can:

  • Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2015
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
  • Register now.

5. Webinar: Successfully Transitioning to Civil 3D 

In a world where more projects are requiring AutoCAD Civil 3D, there is a great deal of apprehension about being able to do what it will take to move from products such as AutoCAD and Land Desktop to the newer, more powerful Civil 3D product. In this webinar, CADD Microsystems will explore those challenges and provide industry-proven recommendations on how to tackle them to ensure a successful transition to Civil 3D.

  • Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2015
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
  • Register now.

6. Webinar: Intermediate Level Civil 3D Layer Control - Mastering the Beast

Are you still struggling with the complexity of the layer system built into Civil 3D, and how layers work, exactly, with regard to Civil 3D Styles? PacifiCAD is dedicating a webinar to the topic and will explore in depth the way in which Civil 3D controls the visibility of Civil 3D objects overall, as well as how we can use layers to control the various components of both objects and labels successfully.

  • Date: Friday, Aug 7, 2015
  • Time:  2:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
  • Register now.

7. Webinar: BIM for Civil Engineers

Another webinar that focuses on one of our favorite software tools for public sector infrastructure professionals - Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite. With tools that support BIM, this webinar from CADD Microsystems will  show you how to:

- Accelerate project approvals by communicating designs in the context of their surroundings.
- Leverage geospatial (GIS) data throughout the design process.
- Analyze the constructability of designs before a project is built.
- Maintain more consistent data, context and processes
- And more!

  • Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2015
  • Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
  • Register now.

8. Webinar: AutoCAD Tables and Data Extraction

What should we do with all of the information that we pack into our drawings? Well, extract it into a table of course! In this webinar, PacifiCAD will discuss harvesting attribute data and displaying it in spreadsheet form.

  • Date: Friday, Aug 14, 2015
  • Time: 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
  • Register now.

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