Mechanical Drafters
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Scales (Architects' scales)
- Scanners (Backlit digitizers)
- Calculators or accessories (Calculators)
- Compasses
- Graphics or video accelerator cards (Computer aided design CAD multi-unit display graphics cards)
- Plotter printers (Cutting plotters)
- Desktop computers
- Scales (Electronic scales)
- Touch pads (Estimating keypads)
- Curves (Flexible curves)
- Curves (French curves)
- Tablet computers (Graphics tablets)
- Scanners (Large-format digitizers)
- Notebook computers
- Plotter printers (Plotters)
- Print servers
- Protractors
- Scanners (Sonic digitizers)
- T squares (T-squares)
- Scanners (Three-dimensional laser digitizers)
- Computer mouse or trackballs (Three-dimensional motion controllers)
- Triangles
- Scanners (Wide-format document scanners)
Technologies Include:
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Autodesk Inventor
- Autodesk Mechanical
- Bentley Microstation
- Bentley Navigator
- Dassault Systemes CATIA software
- Piping and instrumentation design PID software
- PTC Pro/Cable
- PTC Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica
- PTC Pro/ENGINEER software
- PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
- PTC Pro/Pipe
- PTC Pro/Sheetmetal
- Reverse engineering software
- Siemens Solid Edge software
- SofTech CADRA
- SolidWorks CAD software
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Rapid prototyping software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Document management software
- Document management system software
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Systems Adobe LiveMotion
- Graphic presentation software
- McNeel Rhino software
- Motion graphics software
- Non uniform rational b-splines NURBS software
- Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
- Bill of materials software
- Optical character reader OCR or scanning software
- Scanning software
- Three-dimensional scanning software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)
