01 / SOLID An invented shaft assembly.02 / PART A · FLANGED END HUB One component, its own dimensioned drawing.03 / PART B · BEARING COLLAR Fit tolerance: —. Needs engineering judgement.
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Scroll to derive the drawing ↓
From 3D model to dimensioned manufacturing drawing. One click, inside SOLIDWORKS.
Every dimension measured off the solid. Nothing estimated, nothing invented. Anything unclear is flagged for you rather than filled in.
You have finished the model. Now you draw it again.
Views placed by hand. Every dimension clicked in and dragged somewhere sensible. Then the same again for the next part, and the part after that.
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Lay out each view by hand
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Click in each dimension and decide where it goes
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Format it to the company's own standard
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Read the parts list off the drawing
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One button, inside the software you already use
The engineer presses one button inside SOLIDWORKS. drawgen reads the 3D model and returns the finished drawing as a PDF and a DXF.
11s
median per manufactured part, unattended batch
1 file
give it an assembly, every part in it is drawn separately
0 export
in-process add-in, not a platform your data has to leave for
Watch it run
One button in the CAD tool, or one file uploaded here. Same engine either way.
The add-in is installed, an assembly is opened, and one button produces a separate dimensioned drawing for every part in it.
Inside your CAD
An in-process add-in. Your geometry never leaves the machine.
Other tools aim to be right most of the time. drawgen is built never to be wrong, even if a drawing is sometimes incomplete.
"Those drawings are what's taken to the fabricators. If that's wrong, they will manufacture something incorrectly. And then you can't unmanufacture something."
Sales lead, 25-person UK machine builder
Three ways to get the drawing done
The axis that matters is correctness, not features.
Where values come from
drawgenmeasured from the solid
By handread off by a person
When it is unsure
drawgenflags it
By handasks a colleague
Same input twice
drawgenidentical output
By handmay differ
Where it runs
drawgeninside SOLIDWORKS
By handinside SOLIDWORKS
Your data
drawgennever leaves the machine
By handstays
Time per part
drawgen11 s median, unattended
By hand5 to 45 minutes
Try it on your own part
Upload one STEP file. Get the dimensioned drawing back as a PDF and a DXF. No account, no call, no sales process.
Everything downstream of the drawing derives from the same assembly walk. Three more jobs, all still done by hand.
Assembly file
2D drawings
Shipping today.
Every part in the assembly, dimensioned.
Parts list
in development
Every unique part and its quantity, down to the bolts.
Cut list and material
in development
Stock lengths, profiles and weights taken from the solids.
Quotations
in development
Bought-in parts priced by part number and custom parts costed from geometry, with missing part numbers flagged.
Manuals and certification are the largest single activity by hours at one customer we work with. They do not derive from the geometry, so they are a different problem and a later one.
Bring us your hardest part
The fastest way to find out whether this works for you is to give it something difficult. Upload a part, or send us a few hundred from your archive covering every geometry type you actually ship, and we will tell you honestly where it fails.
