Looking for referrals that want to learn SolidWorks.

Veed,

I invite you to make a posting here when you have graduates that don't come from a company. It's getting hard to find noobish CAD drafters these days. Either its new engineers breaking into the field (not interested in drafting), or old timers whose skill sets have moved past simple drafting. Also, for any noobs, I highly recommend covering GD&T, since having SolidWorks drafting skills without it is kinda pointless. Just some thoughts.

Matt

What's GD&T

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing:

tolerancing:

That's actually a skill I wish I had. I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my- pants new drafter with a quarter of community college SolidWorks, some AutoCAD from high school, and now 8 months of work experience. Luckily, none of my drawings ever need to be very technical, as the parts are simple sheet metal parts. However, I'm aware that there's a whole set of technical skills out there that I'll need to utilize someday.

tolerancing:

Geometric Tolerancing was taught when I was in college in the 60s, and there are a lot of good books to get you started. They have applicability to sheet metal just like a lot of other machined, cast or molded parts.

Specifying parallelism, concentricity, perpendicularity and such will become second nature to you after you go through a book and then relate it to the work you do with the correct levels of tolerancing appropriate for your industry's processes.

How can you make drawings for anything that has to be manufactored in the real world without knowing about Geometric Tolerances? But then again I build machines... so I wouldnt be able to make anything fit without them.... maybe if you where only making welded constructions you could live without. All depends on how well it needs to fit together.

They do still teach them at the University, at least I know they did