

Now, a couple things make 4D technologies interesting.


Their entire library includes more than 10,000 tutorials. And I mean on the Autodesk line, you name it: AutoCAD, Inventor, 3ds Max, Maya, Ecotect Analysis, Electrical, Vault, Plant, Civil 3D, Revit, even Autodesk Certification preparation. The skinny is that 4D Technologies is an Autodesk Authorized Publisher who develops and produces CADLearning, a series of self-paced video tutorials on the Autodesk software line. They had a good idea then, and it’s grown well. If that sounds like you or your staff, then today’s Check It Out is something that you need to look into.Ī really old guy I knew, Dave Colby, turned me on to 4D Technologies 10 years ago. And if you have an autodidactic streak, a good bet for engineers, the regress to the lowest common denominator with the stand-up comedy routine of some perky trainer so bores you that you end up missing what you want to learn because you’re spacing out. Whereas waiters’ genes lead them to inquire about a meal’s tastiness the moment you cram a forkful in your mouth, managers’ DNA draws them to pluck the worst possible date on your calendar for mandatory-and generally expensive-training. Evolution has given us waiters and managers with a sixth sense for poor timing.
