CAD Portfolio?

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

Have you taken any courses or obtained certification?
Worked as a professional draftsman or designer?
What CAD software have you used?

It's this sort of thing that I find most frustrating because it often makes me feel as if I have very little to offer.

I have taken classes in drafting using AutoCAD in both high school and college, but I have no formal certification in its use; or in the use of anything else, for that matter. I am, however, a very good draftsperson.

I've never done paid drafting work, but I have done drafting for FIRST robots for six years and have gained innumerable experiences from that, including design and drafting for production. I'm always unsure if the work I've done for FIRST "counts" as experience, though. I can try to dig up examples of my work if you've never seen anything I've posted here.

I have experience in a number of CAD programs and am self-taught in all of their operation. Therefore, I am confident that I can adapt quickly to other programs should the need arise. I have used SolidEdge, Solidworks, Inventor, AutoCAD, and the useless CADKey.

I'm a very intelligent, capable person and I'm a little frustrated right now with being told, over and over, that I can't do something because I don't have a little sheet of paper that says I can -- and I can't that paper unless someone gives me a chance to prove myself to so I can eat, pay rent, and go back to school