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CAD tools may be ever evolving, but when CAD drafters abide by the three golden rules of CAD drafting, no design complexity or external industrial challenges can stop them from staying profitable. Explore three crucial principles for CAD drafting and implement it with Hitech CAD drafting expert teams.

CAD customization eliminates the time consumed in redesigning the models from scratch. It stands true even for the products that are the same but different in some attributes. The customized features can be incorporated by selecting from a list of predefined options in a CAD product configurator. Such CAD product configurators help in mixing permissible choices and matching the customer's choices as inputs and generate engineering drawings. Read more to find how CAD customization help manufacturers eliminate the engineering factor in generating drawings and create BOMs, sales quotes, and generate manufacturing drawings.

An environmental systems manufacturer from Japan approached Hitech to develop an automation tool for finding all drawings related to any standard component used in a particular assembly. Our automation engineers developed an Autodesk Inventor macro for automatically finding relevant documents of any drawing & component saved in the CAD library. Check the full case study for more information.

Automating repetitive tasks of modeling and drafting is the only alternative left with mass customized product manufacturers. Design automation software plugins like Driveworks are the perfect suit for such manufacturers as most of the design and modeling related tasks are automated. Read for more benefits...

If you know the shop floor automation happenings, you can align your designs with these practices and save design cycle time by 70%. These practices for efficient CAD drafting techniques for designers will help you stay profitable and contemporary with your deliverables. What are these CAD drafting practices?