Energy
You were hired to build the first one.
Not to spend Thursday dimensioning it. Send the assembly from SolidWorks or Siemens NX and Drafter returns a fully dimensioned ASME Y14.5-2018 sheet for every part in it, with your title block and your tolerancing conventions, for you to check rather than to draw.
Drawing list
Skid assembly, primary loop
22 sheets · 1 assembly · 47 minutes
| Sheet | Part no | Title | Rev | Std |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | DFT-51200 | Flange, primary loop | B | Y14.5 |
| 002 | DFT-51201 | Spool, coolant return | A | Y14.5 |
| 003 | DFT-51202 | Bracket, pump mount | A | Y14.5 |
| 004 | DFT-51203 | Plate, shield support | C | Y14.5 |
| 005 | DFT-51204 | Cover, instrument port | A | Y14.5 |
| 006 | DFT-51205 | Standoff, cable tray | A | Y14.5 |
One assembly in. Every sheet the shop needs out.
Nothing is quoted, cut or forged until the package is released, and long lead does not start early because the drawing was interesting. Send the assembly and the whole set comes back: every part detailed, every sheet numbered, rather than the six somebody had time for.
The drawing is the record. You decide what goes in it.
Your name goes in that title block, and on this kind of program the sheet outlives the hardware. So Drafter proposes rather than decides: it reads the model, finds the features that mate, and puts up the datums and tolerances that control them to ASME Y14.5-2018, for you to accept, change or throw out. You keep the judgment. What you stop doing is the typing.
See what ships on a sheet- Standard
- ASME Y14.5-2018
- Datums
- Proposed from the model
- Revision
- What changed, and what authorized it
- Title block
- Yours
- Sheet
- Stays attached to the model
- Runs in
- SolidWorks, Siemens NX
- Reads
- STEP
- Review
- Before anything lands
Capabilities
What an energy team gets back.
The whole package, not the interesting parts
Send an assembly and get a sheet for each part in it, numbered and consistent. The bracket and the shim get the same treatment as the pressure boundary, because the fabricator needs all of them.
GD&T to the 2018 rule set
Feature control frames, datum references and callouts follow ASME Y14.5-2018 on every sheet, so a package does not change character with whoever produced it or which shop reads it.
Native in your CAD
Drafter runs as an add-in inside SolidWorks and Siemens NX, and reads STEP when a vendor sends geometry without its native file, which on this kind of program is most of them.
Revisions re-run
A first unit changes until the day it ships. A late design change regenerates the affected sheets and writes the revision block: what changed, what authorized it, and when.
Your conventions, not ours
Your title block, your tolerancing defaults and your sheet sizes, applied the same way across the whole package rather than settled per engineer.
Nothing leaves the workspace
Models, drawings and design intent stay inside an isolated workspace. Nothing is trained on and nothing is shared, with AWS GovCloud or a locally hosted cloud deployment available for controlled programs.
Seven drawings. A day and a half of work, in thirty minutes.
“Drafter is really fast. It helps us move at the speed we need. The 7 drawings I made last week would've taken me one and a half days. With Drafter, it took 30 minutes.”
Long lead starts when the drawing is released.
You cannot buy a forging, book a weld shop or start a qualification piece without a released drawing, and the drawing is usually late because the person who has to make it was hired to design the system. Detailing is the one task on the program that scales with headcount and nothing else, and headcount is the thing a company at this stage has least of. Drafter takes that task off the critical path without taking the judgment out of it.
The oldest job in manufacturingYour geometry does not go anywhere.
The model you send stays in your workspace. Nothing is trained on, nothing is shared, and nothing goes out to a third party.
How we handle controlled programsQuestions
What energy teams ask us first.
- We work under a formal quality program. Is Drafter qualified against it?
- No, and we will not imply otherwise. Drafter produces the drawing: your title block, your conventions, ASME Y14.5-2018, and a revision block recording what changed and what authorized it. It runs inside the controls and the review you already have rather than replacing them, and it is not a quality system of record. Teams under a formal program use it the way they use their CAD.
- Does it work on an assembly or only on a part?
- On an assembly. You send the assembly from SolidWorks or Siemens NX and Drafter returns a detailed sheet for every part in it, each one carrying your title block and the same tolerancing conventions.
- Our design is still moving. Does that mean redrawing everything?
- No. The sheet comes back attached to the model rather than as a flat file, so a design change is a re-run rather than a redraw, and the revision block records what changed and what authorized it.
- Half our geometry arrives from vendors as STEP.
- Drafter reads STEP. You do not need the originating CAD to get a standardized sheet out of a model that arrived on its own, which matters when the pump, the valve and the skid frame come from three suppliers on three systems.
- Do our models leave our environment?
- No. Every workspace is isolated, nothing is trained on, nothing is shared and nothing goes out to a third party. Programs that require it run in AWS GovCloud or in a locally hosted cloud deployment of their own; see Drafter for Defense for how controlled work is handled.
- Does it replace our drafters?
- It replaces the part of the job that is transcription. Most energy teams we work with have no drafters to replace: the detailing is being done by the design engineers, at night, and that is the time this gives back.