Instructors teach AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, 3D StudioMAX, AutoLISP, AutoCAD LT, DynaCADD and other specialized software, including Work Center and Softdesk AutoArchitect and Civil packages. Three of the five instructors are full-time and have 11 to 17 years experience in their professions. Each instructor has expertise in AutoCAD and at least one other key software package. We can't afford to have anyone who pays tuition to walk away unhappy. Instructors will teach at a customer's site but clients usually find the training facility with its fewer distractions is more cost efficient.
Class sizes are no more than eight for general training and six or less for advanced sessions.
Forman finds students retain the information better when it is not spread over several weeks. The company currently reaches southern Ontario companies from Windsor to Oshawa to Barrie. Forman targets firms with 50 or fewer CAD users and is considering expanding into Detroit and Rochester. Solid CAD of Markham, ON, allows him to tender joint bids for software installations and training. If an employee is not working at full productivity, it costs the company thousands in lost productivity - just because they don't want to pay a few hundred for a training program.