CADD Centre
As a long time user of draughting and design software, this franchise has a business model I like.
It is a CADD (Computer Aided Design & Draughting) training franchise. It has a reasonably low entry level ($20K – $30K) and would be fairly quick and easy to set up. Perhaps the most challenging part of the business would be to find good trainers, but with a good curriculum provided by the franchisors it should be OK, I think.
Specialised software like CAD changes rapidly and if you are an operator struggling to just keep up with the daily deadlines, you don’t really have time to explore the new features with each version. Sometimes design offices decide to hange over to a new software package, going more high-end to take advantage of CNC machining or of robotics, for example.
One ought to be able to keep the overheads down to a minimum while taking advantage of the high fees you can charge for this type of service.
The software packages they have training for are:
Pro/E, Catia, Solid Edge, Solid Works, 3DS Max, PC Schematic EL Automation, Staad, Pro, ANSYS, MSC Nastran, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, GT, Strudl, Microsoft Project, Primavera, F2D, Cadian. Rhino 3D is one notable omission and if I were to consider this franchise I would certainly negotiate either for Head Office support for its inclusion or permission to develop one’s own Rhino training material.
The professionals you would target are:
Engineers, architects, interior designers, garment designers, modelling artists, animators and others. You can find out more about it HERE
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