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Looking for 5 most important traits in a CAD Manager Please help.
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Common Sense
Attention to Detail
CAD Expertise
Desire for Standards
Patience
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Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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Attention to Detail
CAD Expertise
Desire for Standards
Patience
[green]"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."[/green]
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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-MUST know the CAD software
-work with people well
-good at training
-knows OS/PC well
-knows networks/servers well
Chris
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-work with people well
-good at training
-knows OS/PC well
-knows networks/servers well
Chris
Systems Analyst
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
I am going to play "devil's advocate", and ask, what do you want the CAD manager to do.
In a well established CAD/design group, where everyone is expereienced, senior and good, training may not be a top priority where most people are doing it on their own initiative already. In a young/inexperienced group, training may be more important.
Is the intent to trim cost? If so, a CAD manager will need to have more financial/managerial expertise. Knowledge of the current CAD software revision (and I like to highlight "currently") is less important. The last time I CADed, the version I belive was AutoCad 9.
A trait is only important if it is needed. If you evaluate what it is you need your CAD manager to do, the important traits should fall out of your evaluation.
In a well established CAD/design group, where everyone is expereienced, senior and good, training may not be a top priority where most people are doing it on their own initiative already. In a young/inexperienced group, training may be more important.
Is the intent to trim cost? If so, a CAD manager will need to have more financial/managerial expertise. Knowledge of the current CAD software revision (and I like to highlight "currently") is less important. The last time I CADed, the version I belive was AutoCad 9.
A trait is only important if it is needed. If you evaluate what it is you need your CAD manager to do, the important traits should fall out of your evaluation.
Define what you mean by CAD Manager.
Someone who manages the design process and the people who use CAD?
Someone who does CAD administrator things like load and upgrade software, maintain standards and maintain the CAD database(s)?
These have vastly different criteria for what knowledge is needed.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
"Fixed in the next release" should replace "Product First" as the PTC slogan.
Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand
Someone who manages the design process and the people who use CAD?
Someone who does CAD administrator things like load and upgrade software, maintain standards and maintain the CAD database(s)?
These have vastly different criteria for what knowledge is needed.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
"Fixed in the next release" should replace "Product First" as the PTC slogan.
Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand
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