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A drawing tool for metal fabricators. Pick a gate, fence, or balustrade from the catalogue, type your dimensions, and get an A4 PDF drawing pack with orthographic views and dimension lines. The 3D solid is rebuilt every time you change a number, so every line on every sheet is computed, not stretched from a template.

No. CAD60 runs in your browser. The configurator, the 3D preview, and the drawing viewer all work without a download. You only save files when you choose to: a PDF, an SVG, or a STEP.

Multiple A4 landscape sheets per job: front elevation, side elevation, top view, isometric, plus model-specific detail sheets (post and footing, hinge and stile, latch, batten layout). Every sheet has dimension lines and a title block. The 3D preview and a paginated SVG viewer ship in the browser; the PDF is the print-and-fabricate artifact.

Three steps. One, pick a model from the catalogue. Two, fill in the form: opening width, height, post sizes, batten spacing, whatever the model needs. Three, hit generate. You get a live 3D preview, a paginated SVG, and an A4 PDF you can download or print. Whole thing takes under sixty seconds the first time, and less on every job after that because the form remembers what you used last.

Yes. Browse the catalogue, open a model, change the inputs, see the 3D preview and the SVG views, all without an account. When you want a PDF, sign in with Google. Free accounts get three watermarked PDFs to take through the full workflow before you decide whether to pay.

49 live models across the metal-fabrication catalogue. New models ship every fortnight. The current list runs the full residential and light-commercial range: pedestrian gates, double-swing gates, sliding and telescopic gates, fence panels, privacy screens, pool fence panels, flat-top balustrades, stair balustrades, Juliet balconies, and a French artisanal railing.

Pedestrian gates (battened, slatted, louvred, patterned, French, DIY), pedestrian gates with side panels, sliding gates (full range including half-height, Hamptons, two-section vertical slat, oversized louvred), telescopic gates, double-swing gates, fixed fence panels in every infill style, privacy screens (battened, curved battened), pool fence panels, balustrades (flat-top and stair), and the Juliet balcony / French railing. If you fabricate metal gates and fences, you're covered.

Yes. Every model exposes the steel sizes it actually uses: SHS, RHS, flat bar, angle, slat profile, batten profile, sliding-track top rail. Pick from the preset list of common sizes (25×25×1.6 up to 100×50×3 SHS/RHS, slat ranges from 16×65 to 50×100, and so on) or type custom dimensions. The 3D model and dimension lines update instantly.

Yes. Patterned battened variants ship with an in-browser pattern designer: drag slot cards into the order you want, control gap width per slot, fit modes for symmetrical or asymmetrical layouts. The pattern then drives both the 3D solid and the elevation drawing.

Yes. Fleet customers get models built specifically for their shop on a turnaround we agree up front. Everyone else can request a new model; we ship the ones with the most demand first. The catalogue has grown from 6 to 49 models on this exact loop.

Yes. Nothing is stretched from a template. Type your real opening width, real heights left and right (for raked gates), real post setbacks, real concrete depths. The CadQuery engine rebuilds the 3D solid from your numbers and the dimensions on the drawing match what you typed.

Sub-millimetre. Every view is a true orthographic projection of a 3D solid built in CadQuery, the same kernel that drives professional CAD packages. There are no manual sketches in the pipeline. If two dimensions on different sheets reference the same edge, they will match.

Yes. Print A4 landscape, hand it to the welder. Every sheet has dimension lines with extension marks, a title block, and a sheet number. You can also export STEP for CNC and laser, so the fabricator can run the cuts off the same source of truth as the drawing.

Yes. Pick mm or inches during onboarding or change it any time in your account preferences. Every form input, every dimension line, and every callout switches with you. Internally the geometry stays in mm, so converting back and forth never accumulates rounding error.

At minimum: front elevation, side elevation, top view, and isometric. Most models add detail sheets: post-and-footing detail, hinge and stile detail, latch detail, batten or slat layout, sliding-track section, post-cap detail. The exact mix is set by the model so you only get sheets that matter for that product.

Yes, on the Fabricator plan. Upload your logo in your title-block settings, set your company name, contact details, drawing-number format and revision conventions, and every PDF you generate carries that title block. Free accounts get the CAD60 title block instead.

Yes. Everything is recomputed from the 3D solid: lengths, hole positions, batten counts, sheet labels, the lot. There is no template to fight, no manual fix-up. Change a height and the side elevation, the iso, and every dimension that referenced that height all move together.

A4 PDF on every plan. SVG in the browser preview (handy for embedding in a quote document). STEP for 3D CAD on Fabricator. Free accounts get watermarked PDFs; paid accounts get clean PDFs with their own title block.

Yes. STEP (ISO 10303) is the universal CAD interchange format. CAD60 exports the solid so Fusion 360, SolidWorks, Inventor, Onshape, Rhino, FreeCAD, and any decent CAM package can import it. From there you can run toolpaths, drop it into a wider assembly, or pull dimensions for the welder.

Not yet. DXF is on the roadmap because plasma and laser cutters expect it. If you need DXF for cutting, the easiest path today is to import the STEP into Fusion or any CAD tool and export the flat patterns as DXF from there. Tell usif you'd push DXF up the queue.

A4 landscape, multi-sheet, ready to print. Sheet count depends on the model: a simple pedestrian gate is three or four sheets, a louvred sliding gate or a balustrade with multiple posts is more. The title block lives in the bottom corner of every sheet.

The Explorer plan is free forever, no credit card. You get three watermarked PDFs across your whole account so you can take a real job through the full workflow before you decide whether to pay. The configurator, the 3D preview, the SVG viewer, and every model in the catalogue are open from day one.

Fabricator runs $88/mo or $74/mo billed annually ($880/yr). You unlock unlimited clean PDFs, your branded title block with logo, STEP export, up to 50 saved jobs, shareable interactive 3D views for your clients, four-hour priority support, and early access to new models. Fleet is custom-priced and adds unlimited team seats, custom models built for your shop, a dedicated account manager, and an uptime SLA. Every plan, including Explorer, gets every model in the catalogue. Full breakdown lives on the pricing page.

Start the trial on Fabricator and you get full paid-tier access immediately. No charge until day 8. Cancel any time in the first seven days and you pay nothing. Your saved jobs, branded title block, and uploaded logo all persist on your account whether you keep the trial or not.

Yes. One click in your billing settings. No phone calls, no retention emails. Your plan stays active until the end of the billing period you've already paid for, then it drops back to Explorer. PDFs you've already downloaded are yours forever.

The seven-day trial is the refund window. You evaluate Fabricator at zero risk before any charge lands. After the trial we don't issue mid-cycle refunds, but cancelling stops the next renewal immediately and you keep paid access until the period you've paid for ends.

Yes. The PDF, the SVG, the STEP, all of it. Use them for your jobs, send them to clients, send them to subcontractors. We don't claim any rights over your output. Your design intent stays yours.

Google sign-in. One click, no password to manage. We use Neon Auth (Better Auth) under the hood, the same toolkit a lot of modern apps use for OAuth. Email or password sign-in is on the way, but Google covers the vast majority of trade and small-shop users today.

Yes, on Fabricator. Hit save on any configured drawing, give it a job name and a client reference, and it lives in your saved jobs. You can reload, edit, regenerate, and download fresh PDFs at any time. The limit is 50 saved jobs per account, which covers a real fabrication backlog without bloat.

Saved jobs, presets, logos, and title-block defaults live in a managed Postgres database (Neon) with daily point-in-time recovery. The drawing engine runs on Fly.io in Sydney. We don't run a CAD operator pool, we don't manually touch your data, and we don't outsource processing.

No. Your saved jobs and uploaded logos are visible to you and to us only when we're investigating a support ticket you've raised. We don't share or sell user data. The full policy lives here.

They stay on your account, view-only on Explorer. You can still see the parameters and reload them in the configurator. To generate a fresh clean PDF or a new STEP from a saved job, resubscribe and the buttons light back up.

Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, all on their current major versions. The 3D preview uses WebGL, which has been standard in every desktop browser for over a decade. If you're on a managed work laptop where IT has disabled WebGL, the configurator and the SVG drawings still work without it.

Yes for browsing the catalogue, configuring a model, and previewing the SVG. The form is responsive and touch-friendly. The PDF itself is laid out for desktop print review, so we recommend doing the final download on a laptop or shop computer.

Integrated GPUs render the scene, just slowly. The form still works while the preview catches up. If the 3D viewer is a problem, the SVG drawings are GPU-independent and contain every dimension you need to fabricate. The 3D preview is there to help you sanity-check before you commit to a PDF; the SVG and PDF are the deliverable.

Four-hour response on Fabricator and Fleet during Australian business hours. Free accounts go through the same contact form and we get to them within a couple of working days. Real humans, no chatbots.

Email us via the contact formwith the model, the inputs you used, and a screenshot of the sheet. If it's a bug in the engine we patch it inside the week, ship it, and update the changelog. If the dimension is correct, we'll explain why on the same thread so you know what to look for next time.

Yes. Fleet customers get bespoke models built to their shop's spec: their preferred extrusions, their joinery patterns, their sheet layout. For one-offs, drop us a briefand we'll quote on a fixed-fee basis. The 49models in the catalogue today are the same engine that powers custom builds, so what we ship for you is the same quality as what's on the shelf.