Your Local User Group

AutoCAD has had an incredibly loyal following in the quarter-century since its initial release. There are many reasons for this, but one of the main ones was the especially enthusiastic individuals who would arrange to meet up one evening a month and talk about what they'd discovered they could do with AutoCAD. Those folks are still out there — although some are a bit grayer and more wrinkled than they used to be — and they still love to get together and talk about AutoCAD. And most are especially welcoming to newcomers! My own local group, the Vancouver AutoCAD Users Society (www.vaus.org), happens to be the oldest user group in existence, and its newsletter grew and grew until it became Cadalyst magazine! To find a nearby group, enter “AutoCAD user group” and your city in your browser's search box.

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