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| Tools and Technology for Mechanical Drafters |
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| Tools
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| Calculators or accessories | | | Compasses | | | Computer mouse or trackballs | - Three-dimensional motion controllers
| | Curves | - Flexible curves
- French curves
| | Desktop computers | | | Graphics or video accelerator cards | - Computer aided design CAD multi-unit display graphics cards
| | Notebook computers | | | Plotter printers | - Cutting plotters
- Plotting printers
| | Print servers | | | Protractors | |
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| Scales | - Architects' scales
- Electronic scales
| | Scanners | - Backlit digitizers
- Large-format digitizers
- Sonic digitizers
- Three-dimensional laser digitizers/digital scanners
- Wide-format document scanners
| | T squares | | | Tablet computers | | | Touch pads | | | Triangles | |
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| Technology
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| 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 software
- PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
- PTC Pro/Mechanica
- PTC Pro/Pipe
- PTC Pro/Sheetmetal
- Reverse engineering software
- SofTech CADRA
- SolidWorks CAD software
| | Computer aided manufacturing CAM software | - Rapid prototyping software
| | Data base user interface and query software | |
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| Document management software | - Document management 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 | | | Spreadsheet software | | | Word processing software | |
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| Source: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (). |
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