Lyle,
At one time I taught a little drafting with pencil and paper but now, like you, I am a contractor (albeit semi retired). I started with MiniCad 6 and at that time they sold the program with a number of QuickTime movies that you could run on your computer. I think they stopped this practice with MC8 and now sell these separately. If you can come up with old copies you can learn an incredible amount just by playing these one minute movies and practicing as a many of the basic tools have not changed that much. VW is fairly easy to learn and , at the same time, very sophisticated if you want to really use all its power.
Richard
