About the CAD Program

The CAD program here at New River Community College offer a high quality and diversified curriculum.

The program has recently been revamped from the ground up. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Levy took over as head of the CAD program at New River. Mr. Levy's background includes both prior teaching and professional design work (see instructor link).

There are three different degree programs:

• Computer Aided Design
• Architectural Design Specialization
• Game Technology & Animation

The CAD lab has been updated to: CAD/ Architecture and Game Technology Program housed at new $4 million dollar facility at New River Valley Mall

• New 1450 Square Foot CAD Lab
  
• Tiltable CAD Works Stations
• 24" flat panel LCD monitors mounted on articulating arms
• Dual Core Dual Processor work stations
• 4Gigs of RAM
• NVIDIA Video Cards w/512mb RAM
• New chairs, New HP 1050c (36") plotter, New HP color laser (11x17), New B&W Leaser (11x17), New Stratasys
• Rapid Prototyping 3D Printer (ABS plastic extrusion tool CNC)
• Multi Head Xpert Milling Machine

Software includes:

• Auto CAD 2008
• PRO E - Wildfire
• Inventor 2008
• Architectural Desktop 2008
• Architectural Studio 2008
• Rivet 2008
• Autodesk VIZ
• Viz Render
• 3Ds MAX
• Feature CAM
• Adobe Premier
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Unreal Runtime Engine

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