This training can be used in a Drafting and Design Youth Apprenticeship program. Drafting is graphic communication - a visual expression of information and ideas. Drafting communicates thoughts and specific information. Therefore, it can actually be considered a language. Drafting techniques allow technical data to be recorded on paper so that a blueprint reader anywhere in the world can translate the information precisely into a specific product.
Drafters work in every industry that manufactures or constructs a product.
Industrial designers, engineers, and architects plan and design the products. They make decisions about a product's looks, functions, materials, and methods of fabrication. Drafters work form the designer's spoken instructions, rough sketches, notes and calculations. They prepare scale drawings of an object as seen from all sides. They also figure out such details as type, strength, and cost of the materials needed to carry out the original plan.