The short answer
No. For decades, making a technical drawing meant either an engineering background or years of CAD practice, which is why so many makers, fabricators and shop owners paid someone else to draw their parts. That barrier is gone.
What used to need an engineer, and what changed
The skill a draftsperson brought was twofold: knowing how to use CAD, and knowing how a drawing should be laid out, which views, where the dimensions go, how to fill a title block. AI now handles both. Tools like TechDraw AI read the shape of a part from a photo and produce the views, dimension lines and title block the way a trained drafter would, in seconds.
That means a maker with no CAD experience can photograph a part, confirm one measurement, and export a drawing a shop will accept. See what the AI actually does in can AI create technical drawings.
What you still need to know
You do not need to be an engineer, but you do need to know your own part. Three things stay with you:
- One real measurement, so the drawing is to scale.
- Which dimensions are critical, the ones that mate, fit or seal, so the right features get tolerances.
- A quick sanity check of the result against the physical part before you send it out.