Every app
Calculation sheets
Live, unit-aware calculations saved with the file and worked again when an input changes.
CadCraft Studio 0.8
Powerful. Without the pretense.
What CadCraft Studio can do, what it does not promise, and where a licensed professional, a client standard or a checked hand-off stays essential.
Eight separate open-source apps in CadCraft Studio. Not SuperCad Studio, the separate all-in-one product.
What Studio can do.
The kind of work to expect from the eight apps together and from the Great Eight scope. Exact options depend on the app and the file.
Draft and plot
Precise 2D drawings, dimensions, layers, technical details, sheets, and DWG and DXF output.
Model places and things
Design models, IFC building data, terrain, corridors, 3D solids, parametric parts and assemblies.
Engineer selected systems
The 0.8 discipline work, such as drainage, piping, structural details, unit-aware calculations and field packs, where it is supported.
Review and coordinate
Compare drawing revisions, mark up PDFs, inspect model issues, record problems and send updates to the person responsible.
Measure and report
Takeoff quantities, schedules, calculation records, shop details and exported reports.
Work from local files
Use the apps with files on your own computer, offline too. Cloud saving and sync will come with the Team Cloud Plan, a separate service.
Use open formats
Exchange DWG, DXF, IFC, STEP, LandXML and PDF in the apps that support each one.
Connect automation
Scripts and the AI you connect can help with drafting, checks and repeat work, and you approve what they change.
Supported calculations in 0.8.
Engineering work built for this release. Each one shows its inputs, units and assumptions.
BimCraft
Duct and pipe sizing
Ducts and pipes sized from flows, fixture units and pressure drop.
CivilCraft
Geotechnical checks
Boring logs, soil profiles, slope stability and settlement.
CivilCraft
Detention and routing
Detention ponds and hydrograph routing for a site's stormwater.
BimCraft
Model checks against IDS
Check an IFC model against the client's IDS file and list each element that does not meet it.
CivilCraft
Survey adjustment
Least-squares adjustment of survey networks and data collector files.
Process
Pumps and hydraulics
Pump, compressor and pipe network hydraulics for process systems.
BimCraft and TakeoffCraft
Embodied carbon
Embodied carbon worked out from model and takeoff quantities.
From nanometers to buildings.
The same apps draw a chip, a wiring harness and an office floor, render a room and run heat and airflow studies. Each picture is a real file opened in the app.
Nanometers
A chip layout, cell by cell
A real standard-cell layout opened from GDSII and measured in nanometers.
- CadCraft
Semiconductors
A 300 mm wafer map
Whole and partial dies counted on a wafer drawn by a script, checked against the dies-per-wafer sheet.
- CadCraft
Electronics
A board fabrication drawing
Board outline, holes, a drill table counted from the drawing, the layer stack and notes. A drawing, not a board router.
- CadCraft
Wiring
A wire harness from its schematic
Lengths, bundle sizes and a from-to list for every wire, made from the control schematic.
- CadCraft
Electrical
A control cabinet on DIN rails
Breakers, contactors, a PLC and terminals laid out in the cabinet, beside the power schematic.
- CadCraft
Buildings
Power and data at every desk
Outlets at every desk, cable trays sized back to the comms room, and the panel schedule.
- CadCraft
Interiors
Furnish, finish and light a room
Rooms furnished with the furnish tool, materials painted on, seven pendant lamps, then rendered in the app.
- BimCraft
Heat
See where the heat goes
A steady thermal study on a heat sink: two hot pads, fins cooled by air, the temperature in colour.
- PartCraft
Airflow
A virtual wind tunnel
A laminar flow study around a model car: the speed field on the centre plane and the wake behind it.
- PartCraft
What Studio does not claim.
Trust is a feature. A firm needs to know where the software's job ends and professional responsibility begins.
Replace an engineer of record
The apps help with calculations and find issues. They cannot take on professional liability, certify code compliance, stamp plans or replace a required review.
Promise perfect round trips with every program
Exchange depends on the format, the objects and the version. A supported format does not mean every proprietary feature, custom object or old font comes back unchanged.
Make every field pack equally deep
A field pack may be a deep discipline workflow or a smaller set of templates and calculations. A named pack is not proof of a full simulation suite for that industry.
Merge eight apps into one window
CadCraft Studio is a launcher and host for eight apps. The one-window product is SuperCad Studio, sold separately.
Keep every file in sync on its own
Some 0.8 links are real, such as the tags a P&ID, its line list and the plant model share. Other hand-offs use supported files and need people to coordinate them.
Replace tests and specialist tools
Every simulation, analysis or calculation must be checked for its assumptions, boundary conditions, source data and limits.
Approve engineering an AI made
Scripts and the AI you connect can propose and make supported changes. They do not approve a design, and they should never make a safety-critical decision unseen.
Hold features back from Community
Community is free for paid client work too, with every app and every feature. An owned license funds development and puts a license in your name; it adds no features.
A format is a bridge, not a magic wand.
Pick the hand-off that keeps what the next team needs, then check what arrived: geometry, coordinates, units, classification and notes.
| Work to exchange | Typical apps | Format or output | Always check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drafting and sheet sets | CadCraft, MarkupCraft | DWG, DXF, PDF | Dimensions, blocks, external references, text, plot scales |
| Building data | BimCraft and your coordination partners | IFC, issues, schedules | GlobalIds, properties, coordinate system, model version |
| Terrain and infrastructure | CivilCraft, CadCraft | LandXML, plans | Survey datum, units, alignments, surface interpolation |
| Mechanical components | PartCraft and your manufacturing partner | STEP, drawings | Tolerances, materials, joints, design intent |
| Construction quantities | TakeoffCraft, BimCraft | Quantity exports, estimates | Measurement basis, waste factors, price dates |
| Fabrication documents | DetailCraft and your fabricator | Shop drawings, supported NC output | Fabricator specification, connection approval, machine compatibility |
Show the result, and the assumptions.
A live calculation sheet on screen: the inputs, the units, one changed value and the new result, ending on a dated sheet for sign-off.
Questions firms ask before they adopt.
- Do I have to use all eight apps?
- No. A small drafting office might use two, a design-build firm six. Use the apps a job needs.
- Can I use Community for client work?
- Yes. Community is free for commercial work, with every app and every feature. An owned license is optional and pays for development.
- Does Studio work with our existing software?
- Through the formats it imports and exports. Test a representative project, and do not assume every feature of another program comes across unchanged.
- Are the 0.8 engineering tools certified?
- No software output is a certification. Check each method, the version of each standard, the verification evidence and your professional obligations.
The software is free. Building it is not.
CadCraft is open source, and Community has every app and every feature, for personal work and paid client work alike. An owned license is a permanent commercial license in your name, from $1, and it pays for the people building the Great Eight and what comes after it. It adds no features: nothing is held back from Community.
The Team Cloud Plan is a separate service. It will add team seats, cloud saving and sync.