Profession civil drafter

Civil drafters draw and prepare sketches for civil engineers and architects of architectonic projects of different kinds, topographical maps, or for the reconstruction of existing structures. They lay down in the sketches all the specifications and requirements such as mathematical, aesthetic, engineering, and technical.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional
• Realistic / Investigative
• Artistic / Realistic

Knowledge

• Engineering processes

  The systematic approach to the development and maintenance of engineering systems.

• CAD software

  The computer-aided design (CAD) software for creating, modifying, analysing or optimising a design.

• Manual draughting techniques

  Techniques used for creating detailed drawings of designs by using specialised pencils, rulers, templates and scales.

• Technical drawings

  Drawing software and the various symbols, perspectives, units of measurement, notation systems, visual styles and page layouts used in technical drawings.

• Mathematics

  Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. It involves the identification of patterns and formulating new conjectures based on them. Mathematicians strive to prove the truth or falsity of these conjectures. There are many fields of mathematics, some of which are widely used for practical applications.

• Engineering principles

  The engineering elements like functionality, replicability, and costs in relation to the design and how they are applied in the completion of engineering projects.

• Design drawings

  Understand design drawings detailing the design of products, tools, and engineering systems.

• Civil engineering

  The engineering discipline that studies the design, construction and maintenance of naturally built works such as roads, buildings, and canals.

Skills

• Use manual draughting techniques

  Use non-computerised draughting techniques to make detailed drawings of designs by hand with specialised tools such as pencils, rulers and templates.

• Create technical plans

  Create detailed technical plans of machinery, equipment, tools and other products.

• Use technical drawing software

  Create technical designs and technical drawings using specialised software.

• Use CADD software

  Use computer-aided design and drafting software to make detailed drawings and blueprints of designs.

• Use CAD software

  Use computer-aided design (CAD) systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation of a design.

• Read engineering drawings

  Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB