Computer aided design CAD software

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Showing the top 40 of 344 products in this category.

Occupations that use Computer aided design CAD software

• Administrative Services Managers
• Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians
• Aerospace Engineers
• Agricultural Engineers
• Animal Scientists
• Anthropologists and Archeologists
• Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
• Architectural and Civil Drafters
• Architectural and Engineering Managers
• Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary
• Art Directors
• Art Therapists
• Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
• Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Automotive Engineering Technicians
• Automotive Engineers
• Aviation Inspectors
• Avionics Technicians
• Biochemists and Biophysicists
• Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
• Biofuels Production Managers
• Boilermakers
• Brickmasons and Blockmasons
• Broadcast Technicians
• Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
• Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
• Business Intelligence Analysts
• Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
• Calibration Technologists and Technicians
• Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
• Carpenters
• Carpet Installers
• Cartographers and Photogrammetrists
• Chemical Engineers
• Chemists
• Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
• Civil Engineers
• Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators

Showing 40 of 245 occupations.

How AI is used by roles that use Computer aided design CAD software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Computer aided design CAD software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 55.1% of the 245 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (135 roles).

Across those roles, 57.6% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 34.7% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.91 / 5.

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Computer aided design CAD software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Computer aided design CAD software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Computer aided design CAD software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 27.0% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Computer aided design CAD software (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Industries where it is most concentrated

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census NAICS 2022 U.S. Census Bureau
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
• AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Computer aided design CAD software},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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