a clear path to mastering
design and engineering software

Expert-led online courses in Computer Aided Design and Building Information Modeling software, including AutoCAD, Revit, Dynamo, SketchUp, and more. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced user, these professional, step-by-step training courses are designed to help you master essential skills for success in the design and engineering industries. Elevate your expertise and advance your career with practical, easy-to-follow instruction.

Quality In-Depth Courses

Get no-nonsense, high-quality instruction with practical exercises and unparalleled depth.
Master the skills you need to thrive with CAD, BIM, 3D, visual programming, and more.

Course Roadmap

These courses will be recorded in this sequence. Later courses rely on assets built in earlier courses.

AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Drafting

Scott is presently recording this course. All 8 projects in the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Drafting course are free of charge. Projects include: Civil Engineering Site Plan, Furniture Shop Drawing, Architectural Detail, Electronic Circuit Schematic Diagram, Office Floor Plan, Mechanical Part with Tolerances, Attributed Title Block, and 3D Model with Projected 2D Views (full AutoCAD needed).

Revit Drafting

Learn the basics of how Revit works with 2D drafting views and the drawing tools, which are also useful for creating and editing lots of sketch-based objects covered in later courses.

Revit and Revit LT for Architecture

Extensive course on using Revit for architecture from conceptual massing to design development to construction documentation.
Pre-requisite: Revit Drafting

AutoCAD Architecture Toolset

Master AutoCAD's approach to BIM with the Architecture Toolset, which is a separate program compared to standard AutoCAD, featuring AEC objects like walls, doors, windows, stairs, roofs, etc.
Pre-requisite: AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Drafting

AutoCAD for Structural Engineering

AutoCAD does not have an official toolset for structural engineering but there are structural tools in the Architecture toolset which is required in this course.
Pre-requisite: AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Drafting

Revit for Structural Engineering

Extensive course using structural tools inside Revit for steel, concrete, rebar, and wood framing, footing, and foundation systems. 
Pre-requisite: Revit Drafting

Revit for MEP Engineering

Extensive course on using Revit in the following building engineering disciplines: mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire alarms/life safety, and sprinkler systems. Build these systems in a single commercial project and coordinate between the trades in 3D.
Pre-requisite: Revit Drafting

Revit Families

Learn how to edit existing families and create new families from scratch for use in any discipline. Use the family editor’s 3d modeling tools, design family types, type and instance parameters, formulas, hosted families, adaptive components, adding systems connections.
Pre-requisites: Revit Drafting and any Revit course in Architecture, Structural Engineering, or MEP.

Revit Rendering and Twinmotion

Create presentation graphics in your views, and render locally and in the cloud. Tackle advanced rendering and material issues and create next-level visualizations with Twinmotion linked to Revit.
Pre-requisites: Revit Drafting, Revit and Revit LT for Architecture

Dynamo Sandbox and Dynamo for Revit

Master visual programming with Dynamo and its vibrant add-on library community. Create 3d models with the free and open source sandbox before using the embedded Dynamo to do amazing and practical, useful things you can’t do in any other way within Revit.
Pre-requisite: Any Revit course in Architecture, Structural, or MEP.

Your Choice of Access

Subscription

As a subscriber, you access ALL AVAILABLE COURSES (including new ones as they come online) for as long as you maintain your active subscription. Subscription is more affordable than purchasing each course individually, but membership has to be maintained.

à la carte

Courses purchased à la carte are EVERGREEN, meaning you maintain individual course access with a one-time payment. This can be more cost-effective if you know you only want to take one or two courses.

Get to know Scott Onstott

About Your Instructor

Scott Onstott studied two years of Mechanical Engineering and two years of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1992. This unique educational background gives him fluency in both engineering and design, seamlessly blending the analytical precision of left-brain thinking with the creative vision of the right brain.

He began his career as a manual draftsman, using a drafting machine with pencils for engineering projects and a parallel rule with triangles for architectural work. Embracing the digital revolution early on, Scott has been continuously using Autodesk AutoCAD since 1991, starting with Release 11 on DOS. His expertise expanded to BIM as he adopted Revit in 2000, prior to Autodesk's acquisition, and fell in love with SketchUp in 2001 when it was still owned by @Last Software, well before its transitions to Google and later Trimble.

Scott eventually shifted from working in architecture and engineering  firms to dedicating himself full-time to teaching. Over the years, he has taught more than 1,000 students in traditional classroom settings, written numerous books, and developed over 50 online courses across multiple platforms, reaching a global audience.

This is Scott's personal training platform, built on his decades of experience in the field and his passion for empowering others. It provides learners at all levels with quality instruction designed to help them excel in their careers.

Plenum screenshot from one of my Revit courses at SourceCAD.com

Sven Gleich - CC BY-SA 2.5

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