Tutorials

Cartography & Orienteering

• Getting Started with OCAD

You find a brief introduction into OCAD in the documentation Getting Started with OCAD, which is available in different languages.

• OCAD Basics

The OCAD Basics exercise teaches both basic and advanced drawing and editing functions in an interactive way. Many tips and tricks for working efficiently with OCAD are also presented. You find the exercises OCAD Basics.ocd in different languages in the OCAD menu File > Open Sample Maps

• Tipps and Tricks with Keyboard and Mouse

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 )

• Video tutorials on YouTube

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 (PDF )
• Canvas (Wiki )

OCAD Sketch App

• OCAD Sketch App explanation video
• OCAD Sketch App Erklärungsvideo
• OCAD Sketch App Website

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 )