This workshop addresses the visual skills students need in order to create solutions to realistic problems in CAD and engineering electives at RMHS. These skills are applicable to many other academic disciplines and are often not explicitly taught using a coherent methodology, or students find it difficult to transfer their knowledge across discipline boundaries. This workshop explores some techniques of teaching these visually-based skills within a necessarily combined verbal and visual communication modality. It is the combination of language and technique which provides the student with an explicitly taught methodology for development of these skills.