CompuServe Messages

James – I know Walter Kappelmann; in fact, he's a good friend of a good friend. I took one of his Train the Trainers courses a few years ago when he was out here in Vancouver. I liked his courseware very much and used it in the R11 courses I taught at the AutoCAD dealers I work with. I wanted to keep using it for R12 but Walter had joined MCI by that time. Walter used to sell us the manuals for Cad$45 each, but if we wanted them through MCI, which of course was now the only way we could get them, we would have had to pay MCI's licence fee of U$1,750 (about U$2,450) *per module*, and we were teaching four modules. Plus the same Cad$45 per manual. We are a relatively small dealer and there was no way we would ever train enough people to justify that expense. I've since taught from Inside AutoCAD, Hands On AutoCAD 12, AutoCAD for Beginners, Applying AutoCAD and AutoCAD and its Applications. Although I'm a co-author of the first two, I have to say I like AutoCAD and its Applications best of all for teaching from. But I think my final solution is going to be to write my own stuff. Dave