i currently work as a cad (computer aided design) technican for a civil engineering firm and was wondering if any of you guys that have engineering shops that do custom work use cad in designin ur products? i was hopin to find somehting part time this fall of '05 once im in school again for a second degree in mechanical engineering....i really would like to get in with some automotive shops that do real engineering design work as a technican......i would of posted this in the general section but im a trial user still if there is a better place for this post please let me know..thanks

 

I know full-race uses CAD...and they all have ME degrees...at least most of them I think.

 

nice, i just gotta find a place interested in hiring a cad technican i work with microstation(j and v8) at my current job but i dipped in autocad(r14, 2000, 2004), 3d studio max, solid works, and a few other programs......there are some higher end mechanical based software i havent been able to get into, hopefully once im rolling in my engineering courses this spring. any shops in pa, md, nj, de, wv, va interested

 

Good luck! Im learning Autocad2004 and Im in my junior year into an applied physics degree. Hope to get a masters in ME after I get done. Full-Race is in AZ...so it might be a change of weather for ya. You know how to TIG weld like a god?

 

not a clue, although im actually doin some hands on stuff now.....I do mostly structual design for the firm i work for now, bridges and walls for mass transit and state highway administration in the mid-atlantic region.....although i have designed a few automotive things on cad in my free time....just dont have the time or money to actually build it i got my assoc. degree in cad and i just started my me degree so i figure another 3 years of education...yeppie!

 

Most shops that design and manufacture there products will use a CAD-CAM system like Mastercam or Gibbs cam. These have most everything autocad or velium have but will also spit out a program to a cnc machine. If you have the cad skills you should be able to learn a system like Mastercam once you understand the basics of wht it takes to manufacture a part. This is not as hard as it might sound but The solid modeling stuff on Mastercam is the hardest for guys like me to learn. So a background with cad would be helpfull.