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Architectural Technologist – Archoncad introduces a new Vectorworks training website

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I train others in the use of Vectorworks, mostly 2D, with a little 3D, its the basics and low level, but who trains the trainer, well its simple Jon Pickup of Archoncad. I have been a member of Jon’s training members area for the past 5 years, or is it more, I realy can’t remember.

Jon, if you did not know, writes most of the Architectural Vectorworks manuals, and runs his own online training sessions for both beginners and expert users. The books are a mixture of written work with just loads of pictures, plus a CD with video explanations, ie, Jon going through the training module, in steps on the screen. The pdf version has links to the videos via icons on the page, right were you want them. There are also epub versions on Kindle. but with no videos.

Joh has also had several web sites, all at the same address www.archoncad.co.nz with lots of tips and links related to Vectorworks and training. The simple stuff Jon has always given away free, take a look at his youtube account to see what I mean, but for the more complex and longer tutorials, Jon introduced a members area, where you had access to some of the more complex and longer videos and training sessions, but space and online storage was always a problem.

Well Jon has made a new members area on his web site, based upon WordPress, that lists all the videos and work jon has ever done, it lists all, and I mean all his videos, book, tutorials, they are tagged and categorised, and, now he has secured cloud storage for all his work, stored online, each article or video contained within a single blog with a small explanation, so searching, and running any video Jon has ever done, is so much easier than ever before,

I know jon has worked hard to get this up and running, having seen the development over the last few months, with me acting as a sounding board for the site. The search bar is most useful, I added a couple of simple items and saw just all the videos related to that subject, and they are not limited to the current version 2012, they go back about 4 or 5 years, most impressive. In the video below, Jon explains the new site and the search functions. I have added both a link and embedded the video.

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A list of the curent training sessions for members is also there, I have just used it to log into the training session on Wednesday 18th July,next week for annotation.

So whats next, well I can recommend taking a membership with Jon, I have been there right from the start, and I’m proud to put it on my CV under my CPD activities. I was chatting to Jon this week, and he has agreed to a special time limited  introductory  membership offer which he mentions in the movie above, it is limited to just 40 applications, so get in quick, follow the button below for the links and discount. I get nothing for this just a link, I rather you progress your Vectorworks skills and keep Jon employed, there is no other site like this at all.

 




 

English: Betula pendula, Inari wilderness, Fin... English: Betula pendula, Inari wilderness, Finland. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

Todays photo has nothing to do with Jon, Archoncad, CPD or Vectorworks, it just a photo I took in Surrey, of the heather and Gorse just coming into bloom, the area you see was ravaged by fire a year ago, and is just getting back into life again, some if not all of the trees have not made it, but the grass, heather and gorse certainly have. Strange how nature mends itself. Silver birch (Betula pendula) are the one tree that seems to have thrived, although I saw many Oaks  (Quercus roburcomming up from old acorns I presume.

 


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