Sheet 1Designin Ultimate

Design on reality.

Model a part, draw it, test it and make it — in the same scene as the scan, the site or the building it has to fit.

357CAD commands
1012D drafting
70Scan to BIM
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Sheet 2In the applicationwindow captures · 30 Oct 2026

The same bracket,under load.

Held at its plate, pushed with 1,000 N: the stress, the deflection and the safety factor, on the part as it was modelled — no export, no mesher, no second program.

cad.fea · Design workspace The Design workspace with the bracket coloured by von Mises stress, the load arrow at 1000 N and the result panel
Feature historyThe bracket's history of steps: two boxes, a union, six holes and fillets
cad.cam · toolpathsFacing and contour toolpaths on the bracket
cad.drawing.autoThe bracket's drawing open in the application

Sheet 3Modelexact B-rep · feature history

Exact solids,with their history.

Steps you can go back and change, named parameters, variants of one part and assemblies whose joints really move. STEP out with its true surfaces, in millimetres.

Motion · sketch to sheet · the bracket above
ExtrudeFilletHoleParametersJointsTolerance stack-upSTEP out

Sheet 4Test it · make it

Then test it,and make it.

The same solid goes to the simulation, the mill, the printer and the press brake — no export, no second program, no second set of units.

Plate 01Stress

Simulate stress

cad.fea

Hold some faces, push on others: the peak stress, the deflection and the safety factor. Heat works the same way, with cad.thermal.

Plate 02Milling

Machine it

cad.cam

Toolpaths for a CNC mill — facing, profiles, pockets, drilling and chamfers — saved as G-code with a setup sheet.

Plate 03FDM

Print it

cad.print

Sliced for an FDM printer — walls, infill and supports, with the print time — and saved as G-code.

Plate 04Sheet metal

Fold it flat

cad.sheet.unfold

Flanges, hems, jogs and louvers with a K-factor or your bend table; the flat pattern out as DXF, nested on stock.

Plate 05Infill

Lattice it

cad.lattice

Keep a solid skin and fill the inside with a gyroid, Schwarz P or diamond sheet, ready to print.

Plate 06Freeform

Shape it freely

cad.subd.box

A smooth body from a cage: drag, crease and mirror it, then keep it as an ordinary solid.

Sheet 5Draw itDXF · DWG · PDF

Drawings and DWG,without a second program.

The part's drawing makes itself — views, dimensions, centre lines and hole callouts — and opens in 2D drafting, where AutoCAD's command aliases work. DXF and DWG in and out; plots to PDF.

Make the drawingOpen DXF or DWGPlot to PDFModel this drawing
The application's drawing of the bracket · unretouchedThe application's A3 drawing of the bracket: right, front, top and isometric views with dimensions, a hole table and a title block
The drawing as the application exported it · PDF, 7 KB →
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Sheet 6On the scanIFC 4 · IFC2X3

A scan becomesa building model.

Walls, slabs, storeys, openings and rooms are found in the scan and proposed one at a time. Accept, reject, or drag a wall on the plan slice and an opening in the elevation — then the building leaves as IFC.

Drawn for this page from a synthetic storey; the areas are computed from the drawn walls.
Detect the buildingPlan sliceFit the openingSection to sketchIFC out

Sheet 7Packageper seat · excl. VAT · draft

Design comeswith Ultimate.

Design is a package of its own, from €690 a year — or part of Ultimate.

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