Spotlight On: Drafting, CAD Management, Teaching, and Consulting

Overview

Our final Spotlight On focuses on drafting, CAD management, teaching, and consulting. The first two of these topics may seem like rather odd choices; after all, haven’t you been studying them throughout the book? While it is true that you have been learning how to draft and may have even read the appendix dedicated to CAD management (Appendix E), we really have not discussed what it is like to actually have a career working as a drafter or CAD manager. While all the engineering, architecture, and design professions we profiled earlier are excellent career paths, many students using this textbook began learning AutoCAD to be a drafter, and this is what we focus on. We also ...

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