Drafting Instruction

Drafting isa free standalone Drafting CAD, based on think3’s thirty years of experience in2D CAD technology.

Draftingis a complete, efficient and smart software built around users’ needs allowingengineers and drafters to preserve value of 2D legacy data and take advantageof 2D smartness.

Featuresand Benefits：

We've always listened closely to our customers. Based on theirfeedback, we have added major features and improved performance:

Easy To Use

“A user has to be productive in a couple of hours”, this is what ourusers want. We did it, thanks to a software fully Windows compliant to improveproductivity and performances.

Drafting drives the user to his target, thanks to compact menus,intuitive icons, smart contextual menus and adaptive selection lists. Featureslike Drag&Drop can be extensively used to create or modify geometry,virtually eliminating user explicit interaction with menus, widely increasingproductivity.

Drafting can be customized at various levels of deepness. The user canconfigure contextual menus and keyword shortcuts, for instance, to adapt Draftingbehavior to his own preferences, thus speeding personal productivity andreaching faster the wanted results.

Full 2D Function

Drafting is built on thirty years of think3’s experience helpingEuropean mechanical companies to reach their market faster and with the rightproducts.

More than 25,000 users already rely on think3 technologies and Draftinghas been built around their requirements to provide one of the faster, morecomplete and more reliable 2D CAD system available on the market.

Using Drafting you will be able to draw any type of 2D entities,organize those using groups or layers, organize product structure and createdetailed drawing or large layout as well. Drafting offers a suite of dedicatedfeatures to help engineers creating or modifying large drawings representingvery complex products.

Value to your history

We know that legacy data represents an inestimable value for anymanufacturing company. Drafting is fully compatible with the most used 2Dformats, like DWG/DXF, IGES, e2, draftmaker, and can save DXF/DWG without anylimitation up to AutoCAD 2006 format.

DXF/DWG is easilyloaded because Drafting shares with AutoCAD many concepts and processes likelayers, text format, x-hatch, dimension style and text style. Moreover, AutoCADblocks are displayed in Drafting as groups, letting the user to benefit from Drafting’soptimized group management

Smart Objects and Adaptive Measures

Unique to Drafting,Smart Objects allow users to capture, reuse and share all of (or part of) adesign. The benefits are greater consistency with company standards, lesserrors, and faster design cycles.

Adaptive Measuresintroduce a breakthrough, intuitive approach to designing parts within thecontext of the assembly. When inserting or editing features, users can inputvalues directly from the surrounding geometry with a simple mouse click.Adaptive Measures will adapt to model changes driving the features thatincorporate them and preserving the design intent. This makes top-down part andassembly design faster and less error-prone than today's traditional, manualmethods. With Adaptive Measures users can quickly create preventive drawingcleanup is virtually eliminated.