Armada

Armada: software training for designers, creatives and technical professionals

Armada is a training provider that has been operating for 30 years, according to its own presentation, and describes itself as the market leader in training for designers, creatives and other professionals. It runs scheduled courses across eight dedicated training centres in the United Kingdom and also offers live online training. The company states that its overall delegate approval rating exceeds 95%.

CAD and engineering design courses

The CAD catalogue is the broadest area of the offer, with courses covering Autodesk products and related design tools. The main families are AutoCAD, Revit, Fusion, Inventor and SketchUp, alongside NavisWorks, Civil 3D, InfraWorks, Alias, Vehicle Tracking, Vault, SolidWorks, Advance Steel, ReCap Pro, Autodesk Docs and BricsCAD.

• AutoCAD: AutoCAD Essentials (3 days, £545), AutoCAD for Mac (3 days, £545), AutoCAD Intermediate (2 days, £395), AutoCAD 3D (3 days, price on request), AutoCAD Architecture (2 days, £545), AutoCAD Electrical (2 days, price on request), AutoCAD Map 3D Essentials (3 days, £695) and AutoCAD Plant 3D Essentials.
• Revit: Revit Essentials (3 days, £695), Revit MEP Essentials (5 days, £1095), Revit Essentials – all disciplines (2 days, £495), Revit families and content creation (2 days, £495), Advanced Revit for Structures (2 days, £495), Advanced Revit for Architecture (2 days, £495), Advanced Revit for MEP (2 days, price on request), Revit Fire Suppression Design (2 days, price on request), Revit Cladding and Curtain Wall Design (2 days, price on request) and Revit Landscape Architecture (2 days, price on request).
• Fusion: Fusion Essentials (3 days, £645), Fusion Intermediate (2 days, £495), Fusion Advanced (2 days, price on request), Fusion CAM and CNC Essentials (2 days, £495), Fusion CAM and CNC Advanced (2 days, price on request), Fusion Sheet Metal Design (1 day, price on request), Fusion Additive Manufacturing (2 days, price on request), Fusion Technical Drawings (1-3 days, price on request), Fusion Simulation and FEA Stress Analysis (2 days, price on request) and Fusion Generative Design.
• Inventor: Inventor Essentials (3 days, £695), Inventor Intermediate (2 days, price on request), Inventor CAM and CNC (2 days, price on request), Inventor Cable and Harness Design (2 days, price on request), Inventor Sheet Metal Design (2 days, price on request) and Inventor Tube and Pipe Design.
• SketchUp: Introduction to SketchUp (2 days, £395), Intermediate SketchUp (2 days, price on request), SketchUp LayOut (1 day, price on request), Advanced Textures and Styles in SketchUp (1 day, price on request) and Utilising AI with SketchUp (1 day, price on request).

Creative, video and animation training

The creative area focuses on Adobe tools for design, layout, video, motion and audio. The catalogue lists InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects, with introductory and intermediate/advanced levels, plus specific modules such as Creating Long Documents with InDesign and Photoshop textures for 3D visualisations. It also includes Adobe Creative Cloud, Firefly, Acrobat, Lightroom, Animate, Audition, Adobe Express and DaVinci Resolve, as well as 3D modelling, visualisation and rendering tools: 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Twinmotion, V-Ray, ART and Arnold.

Introductory courses in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects are listed at 2 days and £395 each. Intermediate/advanced modules are generally 1 day and priced on request.

Microsoft, AI and technical writing

Armada also covers Microsoft Office and AI. The Microsoft offer includes Office basics, Excel (Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced, each 1 day and £245), Word, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Project, Teams, Power BI and Visio. In AI, the catalogue lists Copilot, ChatGPT, Firefly, Midjourney, AI Tools in After Effects, AI Tools in Premiere and Effective Prompt Engineering, as well as Ethical AI. ChatGPT courses are 1 day and priced on request.

Technical writing is another specialised line, with Technical writing core skills (5 days, £1495), Technical authoring programme (1 day, £395), Introduction to technical authoring (2 days, £645), Intermediate technical authoring (2 days, £645), Advanced technical authoring, FrameMaker (Introduction and Advanced, 2 days, price on request), Authoring structured FrameMaker documents (2 days, price on request), RoboHelp, MadCap Flare (Intermediate and Advanced, 2 days, price on request), MadCap Flare – Migrating from RoboHelp (1 day, price on request) and MadCap Flare – Migrating from FrameMaker (1 day, price on request).

Accreditations and instructors

The company states that its courses are accredited by organisations including Autodesk, Findcourses and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. CAD design courses are taught by Autodesk Certified Instructors, while creative courses are led by Adobe Certified Professionals. Armada presents these accreditations as a guarantee of training quality.

Guarantees and satisfaction

Armada offers a price guarantee: if the same scheduled course is found at a lower price, it matches that price. It also offers a training guarantee: delegates who feel they have not learned enough to apply their skills can repeat the same scheduled course free of charge.

On satisfaction, the company reports an overall delegate approval rating above 95%, more than 500 five-star Google reviews, a FindCourses score of 4.9/5 based on 1,337 reviews and a 100% recommendation rate on Facebook. The site includes individual reviews of courses such as AutoCAD Essentials, Introduction to Premiere, Revit Essentials, Introduction to Illustrator, Introduction to SketchUp, Introduction to InDesign, Fusion Essentials, AutoCAD Intermediate, Introduction to Photoshop, Civil 3D Essentials, Introduction to After Effects, Technical authoring programme, 3ds Max Essentials, Inventor Essentials and AutoCAD 3D, dated between July and October 2026.

Centres and facilities

Armada has eight dedicated training centres, in Birmingham/Bromsgrove, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Reading and Sheffield. The centres are described as offering a comfortable and professional learning environment, with air-conditioned training suites equipped with large-screen workstations for practice. The 2027 course dates were available to view and book for all scheduled courses at the time of writing this profile.