AutoCAD course, certification?

ThOnda

I am sorry if my thread is incorrect.

I am looking for AutoCAD course, maybe even certification. I am interested in evening courses or weekend courses.

I have searched evening courses, but I haven't got any response to my questions.

If you could recommend me evening or distance studies, please, do so. I would like to begin as soon as possible. Dublin area welcomed, I live in Tallaght now.

BuffyBot

It's been asked before, and I don't think there was much in the line of distance learning AutoCAD courses.

Part time ones seem to exist - check out nightcourses.com

ThOnda

I have checked that site already, but no response from one university. I'll try again and more of them. However the logistics could be problem in afternoon Dublin :-(

Thanks for information. I am looking for all possibilities, so that's why I had asked here.

smashey

Try your local VEC as they sometimes run evening courses.

ThOnda

Sorry, I am not local. What does "VEC" mean?

And talking about courses, it doesn't look good. The spring semester is about to start in less than week time and no luck so far

Is anybody willing to provide private AutoCAD lessons? It looks like the only way how to do it.

smashey

VEC = Vocational Education Committee. Check the golden pages.

AngryHippie

If you are still having no joy, ask yourself do you really need a cert, or just to be able to use it. If you need a cert, keep looking. If not then I suggest you start using the tutorials included in it, also try and get familiar with the keyboard shortcuts. After a little while you will get much faster. If its a more in depth use of extrernal references and linking drawings together, tbh the only people I ever worked with that knew how to use them properly had studied as draughtsmen for a few years in college. Most don't really know how to set it up, just how to use it once its there.

ThOnda

I don't need a certificate, just basic experience and to be ready to use it. Reading, correcting and commenting designs, mostly 2D.
It is for my next job.

The problem is, that I don't have CAD and can't install it on my (company) laptop.

tcs

I did an AutoCAD 2D course at Dublin Institute of Design on Suffolk St Sept-Dec 2006 & got City & Guilds Certification from it. http://www.dublindesign.ie/content/modules/arms/view.php?w=art&idx=20&page=1

Griffith College Dublin do a similar course - http://www.gcd.ie/index.jsp?1nID=93&2nID=140&nID=146&aID=784

Eden Training do one too - http://www.eden.ie/

Also look into courses at VEC
http://www.cdvec.ie/en/index.cfm/go/course-database-result/searchstring/cad/page/3 . St Kevin's would be closest to Tallaght - http://www.cdvec.ie/en/index.cfm/go/course-database-page/course_key/5651/

ThOnda

Excellent! Thank you a lot, I go surfing now...