I am in the college of management but have been working with AutoCAD for the past two summers. I was wondering if anyone knew of a class that State offered for AutoCAD or designing that someone could take who is not in engineering.

7/25/2007 2:14:29 PM

gc250, you may have to take 120 first though

7/25/2007 4:21:04 PM

that class is going to be pretty worthless for you. if you've been working with autocad for 2 summers you'll already know a good deal more than what you're going to 'learn' in there. granted i took it a few years ago & it may have been revamped since then

7/25/2007 11:00:10 PM

^i doubt it's changed any. Matthews still teaches it so it will be the same. but you're right, it's a pretty worthless class. If you have a question he will just come over and do it for you lighting fast without an explanation. And it's really more about construction, anything taught about AutoCad is really just there so you can get the assignments done (he assumes you have some knowledge of it). That being said; as far as I know it's the only gc class which mainly uses AutoCad. I don't even think the other instructors cover autocad in gc120.

Actually that may be what you want, if you can take GC120 with matthews he'll probably cover it in detail. I had him for 120 and we mostly used autocad, then some solidworks (which we learned on our own) and you could work with whichever for the final project. Some of the other instructors don't cover autocad at all in 120 from what I've heard though so you'd definitely have to get Matthews.

So maybe get in touch with Dr. Matthews and see if he is teaching gc120 soon and if it will cover AutoCad still. it's been years since I took it with him, but I can't imagine him abandoning AutoCad... he's written books on it and what not.

Aside from that, I would look at community colleges, maybe Wake Tech.. Or just go buy one or two of the hundreds of books they have on it and sit down and work through it.

7/26/2007 2:17:14 AM

there are tutorial programs (online and whatnot) that you can get through the library i think

7/26/2007 4:33:07 AM

buy an autocad book

you'll learn all of the little caveats of CAD that you never knew existed just by reading the book. You'll probably learn more this way than you would in any class, and save some money

7/26/2007 9:38:49 AM

thanks for your help, i think i will be better off just working from a book

7/26/2007 2:19:59 PM

It all depends on what you want to learn.

WTCC offers a great classes in AutoCAD and Land Development Desktop, but again, if you have been using it for 2 years, you will not learn much. They also offer Microstation for any DOT people out there.

7/26/2007 6:59:09 PM