Getting Started with Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) Application course was developed in 2021. It is our second course within the Caddie Basics category.

Caddie Architectural provides you with the tools you need to make the most of the time you get to design. Whether you want to create a 3D building model, viewing your design from every conceivable angle, or simply produce a set of plans, sections and elevations in a fraction of the time it would take to draw line-by-line, Caddie Architectural makes it easy to produce the drawings you need to satisfy clients, planners and building control.

Getting Started with AEC covers the basics from inserting walls, windows, floors and doors to roofs, stairs and railings as well as presenting your finished model. It is aimed at users who want to progress from 2D to 3D or existing Caddie users who want to refresh or extend their knowledge and skills to get the best out of all of the features in the software.

Drawing a single storey house using Caddie’s AEC Build tools, one simply draws out the plan adding furniture, text, dimensions and so on as if one is using lines to produce your drawing. However when it comes to multi-storey buildings, then it is worth considering structuring your drawings to enable easy working and display of Objects on a floor-by-floor basis.

When using Caddie’s AEC Build tools, we have the ability to generate elevations straight from our building models. In order to make full use of this ability to auto-generate 2D content we can ‘stack’ our floor plans as they would be in the finished building, i.e. one floor on top of another, then produce the elevations and sections from this ‘stacked’ model.

Caddie is a complete 3D system, everything that is drawn is drawn in a 3D environment. When we treat this as a 2D system and all that we required is “Flat plans and elevations”, we just use the co-ordinates X & Y. To use the 3D element we now start using the height co-ordinate “Z”.

Everything that has previously been learnt in Caddie to draw 2D plans is still very relevant when drawing 3D objects. There are in addition many more commands that allow the ease of drawing and manipulation of 3D objects.

Prerequisites: The delegate should have completed, the Getting Started with Caddie Online Training or Classroom Course or have the equivalent self-taught experience.

Once your payment has been processed you will be enrolled onto to the course and have 12 weeks to complete the course.

You will be able to study anytime and any place that you have an internet connection and Caddie running.