An AutoCAD designer is a professional who uses AutoCAD software to create, edit, and modify detailed 2D and 3D drawings and designs. The drawings and designs created by AutoCAD designers are used in a variety of industries, such as architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and product design. An AutoCAD designer is a technical professional who uses AutoCAD software, a computer-aided design program, to develop 2D and 3D computer models of houses, apartments, commercial buildings, airplanes, machine parts, bridges, appliances, equipment or other physical objects.