The Workflow

How It Works

Four steps from a page in a folder to a model on a plate, with the working shown at every one of them.

STEP 01

Bring The Drawing

A scan, a PDF export or a photograph of an existing engineering drawing. Nothing needs modelling or tracing by hand first.

STEP 02

Watch It Become Geometry

Each stage returns an image: the cleaned drawing, the structure it found, the shapes it fitted and the dimensions it read.

STEP 03

Take The CAD, Or Go Further

Stop at the DXF if 2D was the job, or carry on and have the closed profile reconstructed as a solid and written to STL.

STEP 04

Hand It To AM

Move the model into the AM module for full print analysis, already carrying everything known about where it came from.

Checkable By Design

You See What It Decided

A tool that hands back a model and no reasoning is one you have to take on trust. Creative writes out an image at every stage, so when something comes out wrong you can see exactly which step went wrong rather than guessing.

For an engineer signing off on a part, that difference matters more than any amount of accuracy claimed in a brochure.

What Each Stage Does
1 · Cleaned Image Written
2 · Detected Structure Written
3 · Fitted Shapes Written
4 · Dimensions Read Written
Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does one drawing take?
Well under a minute for a typical single-view drawing. The slow part of the old way was a person re-drawing the part, not the computer.
What if it gets something wrong?
You will see it, because every stage is written out as an image. And since the output is a normal DXF, correcting a mis-fitted arc in your own CAD package is a small edit rather than a restart.
Does it need a scale reference?
Dimension text on the drawing is read and used to scale the result. A drawing with no dimensions on it at all can still be extracted, but the scale will need setting by hand.
Can I try it on my own drawings today?
Yes. Send us a drawing and we will run it through and walk you through every stage of the result with you.

Walk Through Your Own Drawing

Bring one of your own and we will take it through every stage with you.