Computer Aided Drafting

Bring Designs to Life with CAD Skills!

Help clients bring their building and design ideas to the life as a CAD design architectural specialist. This program will teach you the essential elements of computer aided drafting and design using computer software. You’ll learn how to create drawings and blueprints for buildings and how to successfully present your designs to clients. The possibilities in CAD really are as endless as your creativity! In this career one day you might work with clients to design a detailed building and the next day you could find yourself helping a business owner maximize the space they have for equipment in a commercial building.

Shape Ideas into Reality with CAD Design.

CAD design mechanical specialists are the critical link between innovation and product development. In this program you’ll use computers and creativity to design scale or full-size blueprints of a variety of specialty items, such as furniture and automobile body or chassis components. Specialists in this field create detailed designs for a variety of mechanical equipment. To do this, you’ll learn how to review and analyze specifications, sketches, engineering drawings, ideas and related design data to determine factors affecting component designs. Your work in this field can help engineers detect changes or potential flaws in designs prior to developing prototypes.

Turn Ideas into Structures with CAD.

As a CAD technician specializing in architecture you’ll be the critical link between architects and construction professionals. This program will teach you how to create the technical drawings and plans that construction workers can use to build houses, office buildings and other structures. You’ll spend time learning about standardized building techniques to draw in the details of a structure, and you’ll discover how to bring your ideas into another dimension using computer aided drafting software. This field combines creativity and computers to enable you to design new projects or alter existing designs.

Design the Details That Drive Innovation.

This program will give you the skills you’ll need to develop detailed drawings and plans for manufacturers or engineers. In addition to learning how to design, you’ll learn how to illustrate the technical details of the products and structures and specifies dimensions, materials and procedures. Whether you’re developing mechanical aspects of new products or making adjustments to current items, your work will help in transitioning products from prototypes to production.