

Collectively they still are in use by hundreds of thousands of engineers, designers, architects, and drafting technicians across the globe.

They are the backwater of our industry, getting stale from a lack of fresh innovation. There are a variety of CAD products on the market we don’t write about much at GraphicSpeak, because they are basically mature products in maintenance mode. The combined solution of SpaceClaim Engineer and SofTech Cadra is being sold and supported by SofTech. Using SpaceClaim’s import features allows Cadra users to also add data created by other CAD systems. The bi-directional Connector lets Cadra uses move their designs into SpaceClaim to create detailed 3D models without recreating design data. Cadra is a 2D mechanical drafting program. SpaceClaim and SofTech have jointly produced a path for users of SofTech’s Cadra 2D mechanical drafting program to move their drawings into 3D using SpaceClaim Engineer. 2D mechanical drafters now have a fast path to 3D models.
