• Vectorworks 2019 Courses Now Available

    I am pleased to announce that I have completely updated and expanded courses for Vectorworks 2019: Foundation Course BIM (Building Information Model) Foundation Course The purpose of this course is to teach you the basic concepts of Vectorworks. It is tempting to try to avoid these basic concepts, but these are the…

  • Teaching Vectorworks in High Schools and Universities

    I was talking to my friend on the konstruckshon web site yesterday, and he reminded me that schools, colleges and universities are now getting ready for the summer holiday. They start again in September. If you were a teacher wanting to teach Vectorworks in your school, university or college, then…

  • I’m too Busy to Learn to be More Productive

    I was teaching at a client's office this morning and we were looking at a range of topics. One of the comments was “That's great, that alone has made the training worthwhile. That is going to save me so much time!”

  • ‘I have proudly taught myself to use Vectorworks.’

    I often hear users tell me that they have proudly learned Vectorworks on their own. I had a client once who was interviewing staff, and one of the prospective employees proudly said “I’ve taught myself  Vectorworks!” Read more…

  • How Important is good Training?

    I have just been on a road trip to visit some clients for training. It’s turned out to be a very interesting trip. I visited one client who still using Vectorworks 11.5. I don’t mean Vectorworks 2011 (two years old) I mean Vectorworks 11 from 10 years ago. The interesting…

  • Archoncad Newsletter – Upgrade Your Training, not Your Software

    As CAD users we are all encouraged by salesmen to look at their competing products. One of my customers had a demonstration recently of another product and called me to say “I think I am going to change” Naturally  my reaction to this was one of surprise.

  • I’m Constantly Surprised by Vectorworks

      I’m constantly surprised at what Vectorworks is able to achieve. There seems to be nothing that Vectorworks cannot do. A few months ago i blogged about a case study that Nemetschek Vectorworks had produced on one of my clients (icebreaker). They have really taken to Vectorworks (and my training)…

  • Repetition is Important When Learning Vectorworks

    Prior to running my Vectorworks courses online, I used to run them in a classroom. At the time it seemed like the best thing that I could do. I was aware at the time that repetition was important, and the way the courses were structured, it allowed time for the…

  • Icebreaker Breaks New Ground

    I was really pleased to see this case study about Icebreaker. Icebreaker has been a client of mine for some time, and so I was really pleasing to see Vectorworks do a case study about how they have implemented the training I have completed with them. The case study is…

  • You Can Attend Online Vectorworks Training From an iPhone or iPad

    I use GoToMeeting to run my Vector-workout training sessions.   Normally uses attend these online sessions from their computer. This allows me to share my computer screen to my online subscribers, and interact with them.