Computer Aided Drafting and Design
West Kentucky Community Technical College
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Campus location
Paducah, USA
Languages
English
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
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Introduction
Do you have an idea that you want to produce? Are you meticulous and detail oriented? Then you have the right skills to be a design drafter. Drafting is a graphic language used by industry to communicate ideas and plans from the creative design stage through production.
A computer aided drafter and designer is a technical specialist with broad-based skills for mechanical, parametric modeling, civil, architectural (and Building Information Modeling) and manufacturing fields. The drafter is a skilled technician with a thorough understanding of the graphic language and is an indispensable contributor to the engineering design team.
Computer-Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) utilizes two- and three-dimensional modeling with conventional methods of graphic communication to solve basic design-related problems. Students will be exposed to both theory and laboratory projects as they learn to create a variety of drawings. Specific skills taught include, but are not limited to: lettering, geometric construction, orthographic projections, dimensioning and tolerancing, technical processes, and various discipline drawings and media.