Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed.
A drafter is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics, infrastructure, sections, etc. Drafters use computer software and man
Technical drawing
…Artistic drawings are subjectively interpreted; their meanings are multiply determined. Technical drawings are understood to have one intended meaning. A drafter is a person who makes a drawing (technical or expressive). A professional drafter who makes technical drawings is sometimes called a drafting technician…
A drafter in Portugal in the 1970s, using a drafting machine
A drafter at work on a drawing of a 25-pound gun, 1942
Students in a high school mechanical drawing classroom in Toledo, Ohio in 1912