SolidWorks · ASME Y14.5 · STEP

Your CAD. Drafter. Integrated.

Drafter’s 2D drawings stay parametrically associated with your 3D models, so a change to the model updates the sheet. Your team can be up and running in under an hour.

A native SolidWorks add-in.

It docks beside your model, and every tolerance on the drawing stays in sync with it.

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Import a drawingRefresh

Select a drawing from your Drafter library to import to SolidWorks.

Import
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A dithered CAD model, open in SolidWorks.
Send to Drafter
Drafter
A dimensioned Drafter-drawn sheet for the SolidWorks part.
Sheet 1 of 1 · Rev AASME Y14.5
SolidWorks
  • Imported drawing
  • Placed GD&T callouts
  • Applied MBD
Parametric link established

Drawings in minutes, without leaving SolidWorks.

Drafter and SolidWorks sync both ways, so your models and drawings stay linked.

SolidWorks drawings done in 4 minutes.

Drafter keeps the link live in both directions: changes in CAD show up instantly in your drawings, and edits in Drafter stay synced with your 3D models.

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Send from your CAD

Push the model straight from SolidWorks or NX, without exporting a file or leaving the window you are already in.

02

Drafter drafts the sheet

Tolerances, datums and callouts land on a standardized ASME Y14.5-2018 drawing for every part.

03

It comes back linked

The drawing returns to your CAD as a live link. Change the model and the drawing follows; edit in Drafter and the model stays in step.

Not on SolidWorks?

Drafter also runs natively inside Siemens NX, with Teamcenter support for PLM teams, and reads STEP as a fallback. If you use another CAD, tell us and it goes on our build list.

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