PirtoCAD Academy

The Academy will offer free video courses that you can watch without logging in. You start with the foundations course and continue with the course for your own discipline. Every discipline works on the same sample buildings, from a one-storey detached house to a terraced house. A block of flats follows later.

Foundations course Learning paths

Video comingIntroducing the AcademyWhat you learn in the Academy, and the order in which to take the courses.

No episodes have been published yet. This page lists the planned episodes. When an episode is ready, its card gets the video and its actual running time.

Learning paths

Choose the path that matches your work. Every path starts with the foundations course.

Ventilation designer

Foundations, ventilation course, output, quick tips

Piping designer

Foundations, piping course, output, quick tips

Electrical designer

Foundations, electrical course, diagrams, output

Installer or small contractor

Foundations, your own discipline's one-storey house episodes, quantity take-off and cost estimate

Building designer

Foundations, construction course, general drafting

Student

Foundations, the start of the construction course, and one discipline course up to the two-storey house

Foundations course

The window, your first floor plan, PDF underlays, drawing sheets and PDF output.

The PirtoCAD sample project on the Ventilation tab: supply and extract ductwork, air terminals and tags over the floor plan — **Video coming: A tour of the PirtoCAD window.**

S0.1 A tour of the PirtoCAD window

First stepsFoundations

The sample project on the Construction tab: walls, doors and rooms with their areas, other disciplines dimmed — **Video coming: Your first floor plan.**

S0.2 Your first floor plan

First stepsFoundations

The PirtoCAD start view: new project, sheet sizes, project templates and the Sample project card — **Video coming: Installation and first launch.**

S0.4 Installation, first launch and feedback

First stepsFoundations

Video comingPDF underlay and calibration

S0.5 Importing and calibrating a PDF underlay

First stepsFoundations

A 1:50 ventilation drawing sheet in PirtoCAD: plan, isometric view, legend and title block — **Video coming: Sheets, title block and PDF.**

S0.8 Sheets, title block and PDF

First stepsFoundations

Later in the foundations course

Episode S0.10: AI draws alongside you

Discipline courses

The construction course draws a one-storey detached house from scratch. The ventilation, piping and electrical courses start from a PDF underlay of that house, calibrated as taught in the foundations course. The diagrams course starts from a blank diagram sheet.

A1.1 One-storey house: project, storey and walls

BasicsConstruction

A sample flat on the Ventilation tab: air handling unit, ductwork and air terminals in the rooms — **Video coming: The air handling unit.**

V1.1 One-storey house: the air handling unit

BasicsVentilation

The sample project on the Piping tab: washbasin, floor drain, water meter and pipework, other disciplines dimmed — **Video coming: Sanitary fixtures.**

P1.1 One-storey house: sanitary fixtures

BasicsPiping

The sample project on the Electrical tab: distribution board RK1, circuits RK1-1 and RK1-2, electrical points and wiring — **Video coming: Electrical points.**

E1.1 One-storey house: electrical points

BasicsElectrical

On the Diagrams tab, a board diagram for +RK1 generated from the model: incoming supply, main switch and circuits with their protective devices — **Video coming: Your first diagram sheet.**

D1 Your first diagram sheet

BasicsDiagrams

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