Computer Aided Design (CAD) is now the norm in this technologically advanced age. Gone are the blotchy Rotring ink pens and white melamine drawing boards, replaced by the monitor, keyboard, mouse and the ever-faster personal computer (PC) to become the CAD workstation.

The human brain is one of the most amazing pieces of nature’s own engineering. We still know very little about it, but scientists are constantly uncovering more and more of its secrets. As a long-time trainer and learning aficionado I’ve always been interested in this magic “box” that enables us to do all the things we’re capable of doing: we learn, we forget, we dream, we think and, most notably, we seem to function most of the time without apparently doing any of the above.

Training is a vast subject with many methodologies and opinions, mine included. Whilst providing training and consultancy services, I can safely say that after seventeen years of exposure to AutoCAD,