Saturday, December 5, 2009

A Career in Drafting

No matter how bad the economy gets, there is always a need for drafters. Drafters are the ones who create technical construction drawings from information given to them by professionals like architects, engineers, designers, and surveyors. Drafters create drawings and plans on a drafting board or Computer Aided Drafting and Design program. These drawings are then used by craftsmen to build various projects or products.

Below are a few of the fields drafters are need in:

Architecture:
Architectural drafters prepare drawings of buildings, and houses.

Engineering and Civil:
These drafters prepare drawings for roadways, structural drawings for large commercial buildings, topographical surveys, steel fabrication drawings, etc.

Survey:
Survey drafters work for surveyors laying out land boundaries, topography, building and structure locations, etc.

Industrial:
These drafters are used in manufacturing plant layout, product illustration and cut sheet drawings, assembly drawings, etc.

Tim Davis, a fully trained general drafter with 20 plus years experience, has created a virtual drafting school where many of these drafting disciplines are taught in a easy to understand format at http://101info.org.

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