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 Tools
Calculators or accessories
  • Calculators
Compasses
  • Compasses
Computer mouse or trackballs
  • Three-dimensional motion controllers
Curves
  • Flexible curves
  • French curves
Desktop computers
  • Desktop computers
Graphics or video accelerator cards
  • Computer aided design CAD multi-unit display graphics cards
Notebook computers
  • Notebook computers
Plotter printers
  • Cutting plotters
  • Plotting printers
Print servers
  • Print servers
Protractors
  • Protractors
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
  • T-squares
Tablet computers
  • Graphics tablets
Touch pads
  • Estimating keypads
Triangles
  • Triangles
 Technology
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
  • Microsoft Access
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
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word
Source: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET).

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