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Five tools.What each one does.

Some of them overlap, on purpose. See who each one is made for, then go down the list to find the one that does your work, and where two of them are better together.

For the maker

Signs, parts, jigs and things that move. Start flat, and go solid when you need to.

Draft 2D

Windows
Mac

Draft 3D

Windows
Mac

For the cabinet shop and woodworker

Cabinets, built-ins and furniture from shop rules, with the cut list and the packets.

Standalone

Windows
Mac

Cabinets

SketchUp
Windows
Mac

On site

Measure the room once and hand the shop the job.

Field

iPhone
Android

The checklist

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It does this— Not what this tool is for

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Who it is made for	For the maker		For the cabinet shop and woodworker		On site
Every tool stands on its own. None needs another to do its job.	Draft 2D Makers, sign shops and anyone with a router Windows Mac Flat drawings and flat parts $149.99 pay once	Draft 3D Makers who want solid parts, mechanisms and prints Windows Mac Includes Draft 2D $199.99 pay once	Standalone Cabinet shops, millwork and furniture builders Windows Mac Its own program. No SketchUp needed. $399.99 a year $799.99 pay once	Cabinets Shops that already draw their jobs in SketchUp SketchUp Windows Mac Runs inside your own SketchUp, and makes it easier to use $249.99 a year $599.99 pay once	Field Whoever measures the job iPhone Android Goes with Standalone and Cabinets $29.99 pay once
Drawing and design
Draw flat to exact sizes, with a cursor that finds the point	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Dimensions, notes and sheets for shop drawings	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Lettering, and tracing a picture into clean shapes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Solid 3D parts: pull, spin, holes, rounds and bevels	No	Yes	No	No	No
Cabinets built from shop rules: base, wall, tall and more	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Fill a wall with cabinets sized to the space	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Furniture, built-ins and one-off pieces made panel by panel	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Turn a leg, a column or a spindle on a lathe	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Making SketchUp easier to useCabinets adds its own toolbars to SketchUp. They work on anything in your model, not only on cabinets.
Rotate, flip and move anything by an exact amount, in one click	No	No	No	Yes	No
Get the camera out of a wall, stand where you click, face a cabinet square-on	No	No	No	Yes	No
Hide what is in the way, then bring it all back	No	No	No	Yes	No
Name a piece you just drew and it joins the cut list	No	No	No	Yes	No
Round or bevel an edge, and cut a section through the model	No	No	No	Yes	No
Things that move
Gears, cams, cranks and linkages that really run	Yesdrawn flat	Yesin 3D	No	No	No
Real physics: grip, bounce, motors and gas struts	Yes	No	No	No	No
Doors and drawers that open on screen	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
What the shop gets
A cut list with every part named and sized	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Parts laid out on your sheets	Yesby true shape	Yesby true shape	Yeswith the grain	Yes	No
Labels for the parts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
A packet for the shop and one for the customer	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Machines
Router jobs: profiles, pockets and drilling	Yesfrom your drawing	Yesfrom your drawing	Yesfrom the cabinets	Yes	No
V-carving for signs	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Watch the cut on screen before the machine runs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Laser cutting and engraving jobs	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Send the job straight to the machine	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Slice a part and save the program for a 3D printer	No	Yes	No	No	No
On site
Measure a room with a phone and a Bluetooth laser	No	No	No	No	Yes
The room in 3D from your numbers	No	No	No	No	Yes
Mark up a photo when no room shape fits	No	No	No	No	Yes
A measured job opens with its rooms already built	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yessends the job

Why so many?

They are different tools for different work.

Two gears being drawn flat in Draft 2D, the second held at the meshing distance from the first. — Draft 2D: gears drawn flat

Six solid gears and a crank on a plate in Draft 3D. — Draft 3D: the same idea, solid

Draft 2D or Draft 3D?

Start in 2D and you can do a lot: drawings, signs, jigs, router jobs, even a gear train. What 2D cannot do is make a solid part. The most depth it gives you is what the router cuts into a flat board. Go to 3D for solid parts and a slicer for your 3D printer. Draft 3D includes Draft 2D, so you get both.

A kitchen in 3D in ShopReady Cabinets Standalone with wall and base cabinets and a green island. — Standalone: a kitchen from cabinet rules

Pages of a printed shop packet: a summary of the job, a sheet layout and a cut list. — The shop packet both of them make

Standalone or Cabinets?

Both build cabinets from the same shop rules and give you the same parts. Standalone is its own program and needs nothing else. Cabinets works only inside SketchUp, for shops that already draw their jobs there, and it brings its own toolbars that make SketchUp easier to use: quick moves and flips, a camera that gets you out of a wall, and one click to hide what is in the way.

The word WORKSHOP V-carved into a sign board in the 3D CNC simulator. — Draft 2D: a sign carved on screen

A Geneva wheel and its driver modelled in Draft 3D. — Draft 3D: a mechanism that runs

Why would a cabinet shop want Draft as well?

The cabinet tools build cabinets, built-ins and rooms from rules. They do not draw a jig, carve a sign, work out a gear train or model a one-off bracket. Those are different jobs, and Draft is the tool for them.

ShopReady Field on a phone showing a measured kitchen in 3D. — Field: the room in 3D, from your numbers

A sheet of cabinet parts being cut on the virtual CNC in ShopReady Cabinets Standalone. — Standalone: the same job, on its way to the router

Where does Field fit?

Field does not design anything. It measures the room once, on site, and hands the job to the shop as one file. It goes with Standalone and Cabinets, and it is useful by itself to anyone who measures.

Each one has its own pages.

ShopReady Draft 2D ShopReady Draft 3D ShopReady Cabinets Standalone ShopReady Cabinets for SketchUp ShopReady Field

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