Sounds like a type of Autocad program but I don't know if you would get all the bells n whistles with it such as creating mirror images (for the other side) or polar & rectangular array's.
Basic usage can describe every line & vessle in an industrial complex to keep track of the engineering drawings. One can also create & save the drawing in a file format that could be transfered to a CNC machine
or a machine that creates parts out of molten plastics.
I had one semester of Autocad and created 23 drawings which earned me a "B" grade wise. Unlike the older pencil & rule type of drafting, the Computer Autocad holds the draftsman to a much higher degree of accuracy as the presentation has to be accurate to within tens of thousand's of an inch which is displayed on the print out.
If you do well here, you then get into the 3-D Autocad. The sucessful graduate can realize around $30 an hour in most places.
I was a so called (dislocated worker) by the State after a chemical plant explosion and was working towards an Engineering degree. Other courses were 3 phase electrical, hydrolics, CNC machinery, and instrumentation. Cancer took me out for most of 2008 and while I still recieved State funding for classes my "living money" was gone and I had to return to work. I was still over 50yrs old at this time with a house, vehicals, and the associated overhead so work was a must.
For your Sons and Daughters tho, I would highly recommend this specialty work as either an Industrial Tech or an Engineer as there is still good paying jobs in all of these fields.
