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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 or a STEP file.

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 drawing 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 drawing, 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, and see the 3D preview and a watermarked drawing preview, all without an account. Sign in with Google and you can download a free example pack, a clean PDF at fixed dimensions, for any model in the catalogue.

178 live models across the metal-fabrication catalogue. New models ship every week. 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 ornamental wrought-iron style railings.

Pedestrian gates (battened, slatted, louvred, patterned, spear-top, elliptical spear-top, ring-top, split-style, Hamptons, sheet, timber picket, ornamental, DIY), pedestrian gates with side panels, sliding gates (full range including split-style, Hamptons, cantilever, 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), Juliet balconies (ornamental, vertical bar, laser-cut and glass) and the ornamental railing. If you fabricate metal gates and fences, you're covered.

Yes. Every model exposes the extrusion 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. Posts also carry a material picker (aluminium, galvanised steel, or stainless). 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. On the Fabricator plan we build it for free. Send us a sketch or a photo of what you make. We add it to the catalogue, or keep it private to your shop. The catalogue has grown from 6 to 178 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 download carries that title block. Explorer shows your logo and details on the live preview too, but only Fabricator bakes them into the drawing you download.

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.

A clean A4 PDF example pack at fixed dimensions on every plan. Configure your own dimensions and Fabricator gives you a clean PDF and a STEP file for CAD, CNC and laser. Explorer previews your own dimensions as a watermarked image; upgrade to download it clean.

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.

DXF, yes, on the decorative sheet models with a paid plan. You get a full-size cut file of the sheet outline and its cut-outs, in mm, ready for the laser or plasma. There is no DWG. For anything else, import the STEP into Fusion or any CAD tool and export the DXF from there. DXF vs DWG vs STEP explains which file to send.

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. Configure any job, preview it watermarked, and download one complete example pack per model as a clean PDF, so you can see the real output before you decide whether to pay. The configurator, the 3D preview, and every model in the catalogue are open from day one.

Fabricator runs $97/mo or $81/mo billed annually ($970/yr). You unlock clean PDF drawing packs for your own dimensions, STEP exports, your branded title block with logo, unlimited saved jobs, shareable interactive 3D views for your clients, and four-hour priority support. 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. After the trial, the first 30 days from your first charge carry a full money-back guarantee.

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.

Yes, two ways. The seven-day trial costs nothing, so cancel inside it and no charge lands. If you convert and Fabricator isn't paying for itself, email harry@cad60.com within 30 days of your first charge and we refund it in full, no questions asked. Refunds go back to your card through Stripe, usually inside 5 to 10 business days. Outside that window 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 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. Hit save on any configured drawing, give it a job name, and it lives in your saved jobs. You can reload, edit, regenerate, and download fresh PDFs at any time. Explorer keeps one saved drawing, so there is somewhere to pick up where you left off. Fabricator saves every drawing you make, so a real fabrication backlog never runs out of room.

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. On Explorer you can still open and reload every one of them; saving a new drawing needs a free slot, and Explorer has one. 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 drawings still work without it.

Yes for browsing the catalogue, configuring a model, and previewing the drawing. 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 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 PDF is the deliverable.

Four-hour response on Fabricator 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 form with 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. Subscribe to Fabricator and tell us what you build: your preferred extrusions, your joinery patterns, your sheet layout. We add it to the catalogue, or keep it private to your shop, at no extra cost. Send us a brief to get it started. The 178 models in the catalogue today run on the same engine, so what we build for you is the same quality as what's on the shelf.