Tutorials

Cartography & Orienteering

• You find a brief introduction into OCAD in the documentation Getting Started with OCAD, which is available in different languages.
• You find an OCAD Drawing and Editing Exercise under menu File > Open Sample Maps called OCAD Basics.

  OCAD Basics.ocd ()

• The page Tipps and Tricks with Keyboard and Mouse summarises useful tipps to optimize your drawing and editing skills in OCAD.

  OCAD Tipps (PDF )

  OCAD Tipps (PDF )

• See also our OCAD YouTube Chanel with many videos.

Orienteering

Orienteering Maps

Forest Orienteering Maps

• Drawing Orienteering Maps in OCAD (Wiki )

  Drawing Orienteering Maps in OCAD (PDF )

  OL-Karten zeichnen mit OCAD (PDF )

• Using Airborne Laserscanning Data for Orienteering Base Map Generation (Wiki )

School Orienteering Maps

• OCAD for Schools (Wiki )

Updating Orienteering Maps

• Updating Orienteering Maps in OCAD (Wiki )

World Orienteering Day

• WOD Tutorial: Drawing Orienteering Maps in OCAD (PDF )
• WOD Tutorial: OL-Karten zeichnen mit OCAD (PDF )
• Creating Orienteering Maps with OCAD (PDF )

Other

• Map your home or classroom (Blog/ Video )
• Sprintkarten zeichnen: Beispiel in der Schweiz (Wiki )

Course Setting

• O-training with OCAD (Wiki )

  Getting Started with Course Setting in OCAD (PDF )

  Einführung in die Bahnlegung mit OCAD (PDF )

  Getting Started with Course Setting in OCAD (Japanese) (PDF )

OCAD Sketch App

• OCAD Sketch App explanation video
• OCAD Sketch App Erklärungsvideo

Cartography

Topographic Maps, City Maps and Leisure Maps

• Migration of unstructured DTP maps to OCAD (PDF )

  Migration von unstrukturierten DTP-Karten nach OCAD (PDF )

• Visualization of GIS Data in OCAD (PDF )

  Visualisierung von GIS-Daten in OCAD (PDF )

Thematic Maps

• OCAD ThematicMapper Tutorials (Wiki )