Where a clothing CAD technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a clothing CAD technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Clothing CAD technicians use software to create design plans for clothing products. They work in 2D design which is known as surface modelling, or 3D design which is called solid modelling. They use surface modelling to draw a flat representation of the clothing product. In solid modelling, they create a 3D display of a structure or component in order to take a virtual look of the clothing product.
Also known as clothing CAD specialist, clothing computer-assisted designer technician, clothing computer aided designer technician, clothing CAD operator, fashion CAD technician, CAD fashion designer.
Technicians and associate professionals 23 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: digital prototyper, 68%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A clothing CAD technician needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- marker making arts and humanities
- examine sample garments information skills
- 3D body scanning technologies health and welfare
- grade patterns for wearing apparel handling and moving
- history of fashion arts and humanities
- perform process control in the wearing apparel industry working with machinery and specialised equipment
- operate computerised control systems working with computers
- inspect wearing apparel products information skills
- CAD for garment manufacturing engineering, manufacturing and construction
- create patterns for garments handling and moving
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a clothing CAD technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- clothing product grader 79% covered · difficulty 24.3
- clothing technologist 79% covered · difficulty 23.5
- clothing sample machinist 75% covered · difficulty 27.1
- wearing apparel patternmaker 75% covered · difficulty 27.1
- clothing quality inspector 70% covered · difficulty 33.4
- clothing CAD patternmaker 67% covered · difficulty 35
- digital prototyper 56% covered · difficulty 44.5
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Clothing CAD technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a clothing CAD technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.