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About CADTutor

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The CADTutor (http://www.cadtutor.net) website is designed, built and maintained by David Watson from his home, a small cottage in rural Hampshire (UK), which he shares with his wife, two children, two chickens and a cat. The site is primarily about a computer drafting application, known as AutoCAD. The aim of the site is to help beginners learn how to use AutoCAD and also to help experienced users become even more efficient.

In addition to running the CADTutor website, David teaches Digital Design at the University of Greenwich. He is also a qualified Landscape Architect and specializes in Visual Impact Assessment. When he's not doing any of these things, he's most likely to be found out cycling or taking photographs of the beautiful Hampshire countryside. Sometimes he just likes listening to old Echo and the Bunnymen songs on his iPod (his wife thinks that's a bit sad).

Author’s Notes

Over the past 5 years, CADTutor has grown amazingly and what started as a small tutorial site with a few visitors per day is now a well-known AutoCAD resource with comfortably over 100,000 unique visitors every month. When CADTutor v3.0 was published five and a half years ago, I wouldn't have believed things could change so positively. CADTutor v4.0 brings the prospect of a whole range of new opportunities for the next 5 years. It's taken 18 months of work (off-and-on) but the site has now been transformed from an "old-school", static html site into a modern, standards compliant, dynamic site using PHP and MySQL.

As you can see from the image of the version 3 website on the right, the site has retained its established identity and its mascot, the enigmatic trout (still without a name!) but I hope the new design improves both usability and accessibility in addition to just making the place a better experience for visitors. If you have any comments about the site, I'd love to hear from you, especially if you have suggestions or feedback (good or bad).
Thanks to all of you who have made the site such a success.

CADTutor started life in 1995 as a couple of A4 printed handouts designed to help students get to grips with AutoCAD R12 for DOS.

I had recently started teaching computer aided design at the University of Greenwich in the UK and needed to develop some simple teaching materials. I continue to teach at Greenwich but have also been teaching at the University of Kingston, in the UK and have been visiting tutor at the Technische Universitat Berlin at Berlin in Germany, Larenstein University of Professional Education at Velp in the Netherlands and Erasmus Hogeschool Brussels at Vilvoorde in Belgium.
For the last few years, I have also run a number of professional training courses for AutoCAD and Photoshop.

The nature and range of my teaching has meant that I need access to teaching materials wherever I am and the Internet, when it arrived, proved to be the perfect medium for delivery.
As you can see, what started out life as a few brief notes has turned into a mammoth amount of work, all done in my own time. It has, in fact, become a labour of love.

So here it is, never complete, never perfect but substantial and comprehensive. It will continue to grow as my teaching inevitably leads into new areas. Enjoy it, it really is free.

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