Nowadays we can see a 3D print machine a common platform that can design whatever you have designed in any scale by CAD software. So do you really see any difference between these two points of view?

I think it might be possible to establish a Journeyman's Card in each of the software packages/suites, and perhaps across several of the packages that are similar, but I'm thinking that there is too much variation in both the tools themselves and their approach to modeling, to establish a single card at this time.

Some of the major packages offer certification now, which would be similar to a Journeyman's Card, although it is for a single package. Perhaps if the user community came together and drove the software vendors to a single user interface, then you could establish a Journeyman's Card.

The other problem I assocaite with this Journeyman concept is that while it addresses the use of modeling software, it does not address the use of software to manage or analyze the data such software creates, and that is at least half of what your Journeyman should be able to deal with.

I think the concept is a very valid one, but just don't see a practical application at this time, given the current state of software.