Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references

• Layout and mark reference points and locations for installation of parts or components, using jigs, templates, or measuring and marking instruments.
• Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
• Scribe reference lines on workpieces as guides for cutting operations, according to blueprints, templates, sample parts, or specifications.
• Establish zero reference points on workpieces, such as at the intersections of two edges or over hole locations.
• Lay out, measure, and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
• Lay out and mark reference points and dimensions on materials, using measuring instruments and drawing or scribing tools.
• Lay out and draw or scribe patterns onto material, using compasses, protractors, rulers, scribes, or other instruments.
• Mark weld points and positions of components on workpieces, using rules, squares, templates, or scribes.
• Mark curves, lines, holes, dimensions, and welding symbols onto workpieces, using scribes, soapstones, punches, and hand drills.
• Duplicate workpiece contours, using tracer attachments.
• Position and mark patterns on materials to prepare for sewing.
• Select materials and patterns, and trace patterns onto materials to be cut out.
• Draw details on outlined parts to indicate where parts are to be joined, as well as the positions of pleats, pockets, buttonholes, and other features, using computers or drafting instruments.
• Draw cutting lines on material following patterns, templates, sketches, or blueprints, using chalk, pencils, paint, or other methods.
• Plan, lay out, and draw outlines of units, sectional patterns, or full-scale mock-ups of products.
• Lay out patterns on wood stock and draw outlines of units, sectional patterns, or full-scale mock-ups of products, based on blueprint specifications and sketches, and using marking and measuring devices.
• Mark cutting lines around patterns or templates, or follow layout points, using squares, rules, and straightedges, and chalk, pencils, or scribes.
• Mark cutting lines or identifying information on stock, using marking pencils, rulers, or scribes.

• Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
• Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators
• Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
• Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Etchers and Engravers
• Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers
• Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
• Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
• Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic
• Machinists
• Medical Appliance Technicians
• Model Makers, Metal and Plastic
• Model Makers, Wood
• Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
• Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
• Patternmakers, Wood
• Sewing Machine Operators
• Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
• Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing
• Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
• Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
• Traffic Technicians
• Upholsterers
• Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.