5 Free Ways You Can Learn About Drafting Online

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Technical drawing that is also known as drafting is the domain of drawing standardized technical drawings by architects, interior designers, drafters, design engineers, and related professionals. Under drafting convention standards and conventions for layout, line thickness, text size, symbols, view projections, descriptive geometry, dimensioning, and notation are used for creating drawings. A person who do drafting is been known as drafting technician, draftsperson or draughtsman. Below are given some free resources from where a person can learn drafting:

  1. House Plan Drafting 101: This is the Architectural Drafting Classroom on the Internet. It tells you all about drafting home plans. After completing this course you would be able to draw Floor Plan, Elevations, Foundations, Roof Plan & Details. It is developed by well trained Drafter and Home Designer Tim Davis.    The lessons are provided online as they can be accessed from the protected directories of website.
  2. Elearners.com: The course of AutoCAD by Penn Foster at Elearners.com helps in developing skills needed for learning AutoCAD. The course helps is using basic CAD equipment; coordinate systems and software used with CAD programs. Further it teaches use of drafting equipment, media, and reproduction methods; Dimensioning, geometric construction, and geometric tolerancing. And this all you learn from comfort of your home.
  3. Cad Drafting Services: At this site various personal editions of the commercial 3D CAD modeler under free editions are provided. However under an agreement even for free editions a license is required. The free softwares require a new license after every three days and if you are connected to internet they do it automatically or you have to log on to respective software sites to get license.
  4. CAD Mechanical Drafting: At this site one can have learning about the various aspects of Mechanical Drafting like, Mechanical drawings, conceptual layout, machine design, and assembly and part drawings. More is taught here is about modifying existing mechanical drawings into new one using various AutoCAD soft wares, with free tutorials how to use and employ them.
  5. Drafter: Here, all the information is provided about the various technical aspects of drafting, technical drawings and plans that are used by production and construction workers to construct miniscule things to huge structures like jumbo jets. One can have all the details about drafting using drawings, rough sketches, specifications and calculations made by engineers, surveyors, architects or scientist. A person learning in drafting would also learn about other technical details like handbooks, tables, calculators and computers to completer their work.

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