Free training is prize for student competition

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Sep 9, 2002

Upperspace Corp will be running an educational contest for both students and teachers until 31st October 2002.

Upperspace Corp will be running an educational contest for both students and teachers until 31st October 2002.

One teacher will be awarded a 2-day DesignCAD training seminar with four seats.

The contest is described in detail in the August DesignCAD Newsletter on the company's website.

Students are invited to submit CAD designs created with any version of DesignCAD or the free 30-day downloadable trial version of DesignCAD to win a copy of DesignCAD 3D Max Plus for themselves and a copy for their instructor of CAD, engineering, drafting, design work and other vocational crafts.

Teachers may submit written letters detailing how DesignCAD would help them in teaching CAD design and drafting to their classes.

The best letter will receive a free 2-day DesignCAD training seminar on location at Upperspace.

They may sign up three other instructors to partake in the free training seminar.

DesignCAD makes an excellent choice for schools given its power, flexibility, educational agreement and qualified educational discounts of 80% and better.

DesignCAD offers the educational market a powerful 2D/3D CAD package at an affordable educational price.

President, Michael Webster remarks: "I taught high school music.

Robert Webster, Vice President of Upperspace and my brother, has taught computer science and programming while his wife still teaches math and science for both high school and college.

Our father taught music for many years and was the high school principal until he retired.

Austin Acuff, our Retail Sales Manager, taught business management at Vo-Tech for years.

To say the least, we understand the needs faced by schools and universities.

Our educational offering of DesignCAD reflects this".

With a powerful range of features, DesignCAD equips students with real world skills in drafting and design applicable to architecture, engineering, electronics and many other technical fields.

DesignCAD supports import and export of DWG and DXF file formats.

DesignCAD offers flexible 2D drafting and design functionality not available in other 2D drafting programs.

Some of these functions include: real time panning and zooming, precise control over single line or double line widths, styles and fills, flexible printing and saving of print settings and editing features including fillet, camphor and advanced trimming options.

DesignCAD also offers powerful 3D solid modelling functions usually only found in high dollar CAD programs, such as: solid manipulation by subtraction, exclusion, segregation or slicing, texture mapping capabilities, animation recording and playback with support for .avi movies and.vrml export, advanced viewing options, panning and zooming.

The educational plan for schools includes a significant educational discount, one complimentary set of CD-ROM training for the instructor and free technical support for both instructor and student.

Licensing to use the one copy of software on one computer never expires.

For classroom solutions over multiple seats, the discounted licensing for an entire classroom never expires.

Educational CAD solutions are available for both flagship programs: DesignCAD 3D Max Plus and DesignCAD 3D Max Plus Office.