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With the plethora of new software packages available today from Autodesk, it is more important than ever to understand the relevance of using them in the correct context, as well as learning which button to push and click to make them work.

Mastering any skill, from golf to CAD software, is a process of continual development - it requires practice and continual review. The notion that you can become a golf pro after a four day training course is clearly absurd. However, users of computer software packages are regularly sent on a single training course and expected to return from it as 'experts'.

Whether you are a Product Design Suite user, or simply an AutoCAD Design Suite user, using the right workflow between products can make or break your company. That's why investing in the correct level of training from an Authorised Autodesk Training Centre will be the best enabler for you.

You may be thinking "I just use AutoCAD at the moment and I'll check out the other products in the suite when I get some breathing space". It never seems to happen and you could well be missing out on important capabilities within the software, that could indeed save you a few minutes, or even hours in your working day.

It was by chance that, when Micro Concepts were asked by one of our customers to train their design team in the tools that were included in the Product Design Suite, it spurred a project to review the workflows between the products. We already had individual training courses for all of the products, such as AutoCAD, SketchBook Designer, Showcase, 3DS Max Design and Inventor, and had modularised the approach to delivering training.

However, we asked ourselves what is the best approach to take Inventor models to Autodesk Revit to maintain Building Information Model (BIM) compliance? How, if you were sent non- Autodesk data would you be able to re-use this type of data to pass to Revit using the Inventor BIM Exchange tools?

The team, headed by Peter Barker, Training Manager & Certified Autodesk Instructor at Micro Concepts Ltd, set out to deep dive into these products and come up with some unique and beneficial courses which address these very questions. We all know, for example, that Inventor reads and writes a number of standard industry CAD formats, but your result can be influenced by how it was originally output from the host system. Sometimes this gets overlooked and knowing the right questions to ask is half the battle.

Moving from Inventor to Showcase or 3DS Max Design using the new appearances was another big topic we reviewed. Hence why we now have a number of discreet courses we can run, as well as the all encompassing Product Design Suite Workflow course, which has been available since we introduced it with the 2013 Product Design Suite.

The project didn't just stop at the Autodesk Product and Design Suites. We took another look at some of the AutoCAD software tools we had and decided we could promote a course based around AutoCAD Electrical for anyone wishing to generate Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID).

We also provide a course to deliver an understanding of the workflow to take AutoCAD Electrical schematic data through to Inventor's Routed Systems. Both these courses are proving to be very popular.

Industry focused training is also an area we are keen to expand into, and we can already provide solutions for Furniture and Joinery Design using our Woodwork for Inventor Add-On. This package is dedicated to assisting anyone who wishes to make furniture of any complexity out of any material, with a unique set of tools written to assist the designer in terms of using his own language, i.e. edge banding, lipping sizes, veneer direction etc.

Micro Concepts training courses are just the beginning of any personal development instruction we deliver.

What about certification I hear you ask? Autodesk Training Certification is really the only way you can demonstrate to your employer or future employer that you have a minimum competency. As an Authorised Certification Centre we offer a one day mentoring course to anyone wishing to take the Certification Exam, as well as include certification at the conclusion of our primary courses of AutoCAD and Inventor. We work with delegates over the required usage period, usually around three months, and for those supported customers we can do this via our support system to make sure the fundamentals of the foundation course are understood before attending the second part of the training and finally taking the exam.

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