CAD that knows your 3D printer

Type exact sizes while you draw

Start on a plane and draw. Length, width and diameter appear next to the cursor: type a value and it locks. Sums like 40/2+3 work too.

• Lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, slots, splines and text
• Trim, round corners and offset in the sketch

Pick profiles. Drag. Done.

Overlapping shapes split into separate profiles on their own. Click the plate and the screw holes stay holes; drag the arrow or type 5 in the box beside it.

• Join, Cut, Intersect or New body, chosen for you
• Push and pull a flat face of the part, too

Shapes in one click

A box for the wall, sized with arrows and boxes right on the shape, and joined to the plate. Cylinders, spheres, tori and coils work the same way.

Round off the edges that matter

Pick edges, set the radius in the box on the edge, and see the fillet before you commit. Chamfers work the same way, for first layers that print cleaner.

Holes where you click

Pick a flat face and click where the holes go; click a hole again to remove it. The diameter sits in a box beside it.

• Simple, counterbore or countersink, for screws that sit flush
• Through all, or to a depth with a drill point

Text and logos, raised or sunk

Type a label in a printable font, straight or along a curve, or insert an SVG sized to the millimetre. Emboss it out of the face or deboss it in, curved faces too.

Catch it before the slicer does

Choose your nozzle and layer height. A support rib only 0.3 mm thick lights up, with every place listed, worst first. Change the part and the check runs again.

• Walls thinner than the nozzle can lay down
• Slots and clearances that close up or may fuse
• ⌥⌘P or Analyse → Print Check

Measure, weigh, check overhangs

The rib is 2 mm now. Click two places for the distance and see the part's size, volume and weight in your filament, with overhangs past your angle.

• PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, TPU and nylon, with filament length
• A section view to look inside the part

Exactly the files your slicer wants

Choose STEP, 3MF or STL, tick the bodies, and save one file or one per body. For meshes, pick how finely curves are cut and see the file size before you save.

• 3MF keeps each body as its own coloured object
• File → Export (⇧⌘E), the toolbar or the body list

Three numbers make the part

Cables, cable diameter and the wall between them. A repeat loop cuts one slot per cable; if, names and sums are there when you need them.

• No programming language to learn; the reference sits next to the script

Six cable slots or ten: drag one slider

The comb grows with every slot, its rounded ends and the fillet still in place, because each step is rebuilt from the values.

Save it, use it again

Save a script as a file and run it in any project, its values set in a small form. Reading the script is free; running it is part of Pro.

• See every command

Any map, as a relief you can print

Open a height map, a satellite elevation model or a heat map, or start from nothing with a generated landscape. Cut it to a circle, a sketch, or just where there is data: an island, a continent.

• PNG, JPEG, HEIC and 16-bit images, GeoTIFF, SRTM .hgt and .asc elevation, SVG contours
• Real heights with exaggeration, or a height in millimetres; sea level as a floor
• Read a coloured map against its own legend with two clicks

Planets on your desk

Wrap a map round a globe of any size: the Moon from its elevation data, or a world of your own from generated craters. Hollow it with a wall to save filament.

Mathematics you can hold

Pick a surface from the catalogue, or type your own formula, and drag its sliders. Gyroids and other implicit surfaces become walls or solids you can print.

• 29 presets: sombrero, saddles, Möbius strip, seashell, Schwarz P, Mandelbulb and more
• z = f(x, y), parametric x, y, z of u and v, or F(x, y, z) = 0

Ripples, waves and saddles

Every graph sits on a base with flat sides, ready to print: set the width, drag the height arrow, slide a parameter and watch the surface change. Formulas are checked as you type, with the reason when something is wrong.

One grid, six pieces

Choose the sketch and the lock: jigsaw or dovetail, tight, normal or loose. Click a lock to flip it, drag it along the seam, click the seam to add one.

• Clearance around the locks or along the whole cut
• Locks that would not fit near an edge or a hole are left out and marked red

See every piece before you print

Show apart draws each piece on its own, so you can check every lock. Press OK and each piece is a body of its own, ready to export as one file each.

A shape, then the lines

The radius is a formula of the height: here it narrows, bulges and narrows again. Twenty-four lines start round the bottom and each turns three spacings by the top, one way and the other, so they cross into a lattice.

• Drag the height arrow, type the number of lines on the model
• Line width, thickness, inside, outside or both, rims at either end

One slider, a new vase

Untick Both ways and the lines run side by side. Slide the turn from 0° to 360° and watch them go from straight ribs to a tight spiral; the bottom stays flat on the bed however the wall leans.

Every line its own path

A path can use the line's number, so every other line can turn further and swing as it rises. Change the count and the pattern keeps its look, since paths are measured in spacings between the lines.

Knurl, weave, wood, leather

Click the jar's wall and choose Basket weave. Set the depth and the size of one repeat; turn it, try another variation. Near the edges the pattern fades out, so it meets the plain faces cleanly.

• Flat faces in their plane, round faces unrolled with whole repeats, others blended from three sides
• Follows its faces when you change earlier steps

Rings that meet

Click three places on the slab. Each drop sends rings out over the surface; where two meet, they add up or cancel, as on a pond. On a dome or a vase they follow the curve.

Thirteen parts, ready to print

Pick a stackable box and drag its sliders: width, height, dividers, the clearance that lets the next box sit in it. OK adds it as ordinary steps, so you can fillet it, emboss a label or split it like anything else.

• Storage, containers, electronics, mechanisms, mounting, home and a fit test
• Save your own scripts as parts in My Parts

Copies that know where they are

Spread a stud over the plate every 12 mm. One formula, 3 + d / 5, makes each stud taller the further it stands from the middle. Join them to the plate, or cut them out as holes.

• At points, in a grid, or over flat and curved faces
• x, y, z, distance, number and count in formulas

On your printer's bed

Choose your printer and its bed appears under the model, red when a part sticks out. Arrange spreads every part over it; Lay on Face turns a part onto the face you click; Brim Ears puts thin discs on sharp corners so they do not lift.

• Teardrop tops for holes on their side, bridge layers over counterbores
• One click chamfers every edge on the bed

Push, turn, click

Split a canister and the lock is built for you, as big as the cut allows: lugs, slots, a groove and a small bump to click past. Clearance, turn and lug count are yours to set.

A table you can hold

Open a CSV of people per km², rainfall, sales: bars that touch or stand apart, a smooth surface, or columns at x and y. Log scale for data that spans many sizes.