PaperToPart turns sheet-metal drawing PDFs into manufacturing-ready STEP models — outline, bends, holes and thickness reconstructed automatically, with a trust report on every conversion. Stop re-modelling parts your customer already drew.
Sheet metal and machined parts live today, more part families on the way. Every conversion returns the model and a report — dimensions, detected bends and holes, and plain-English warnings that tell you when to double-check.
Flat and folded parts. Bend angles — including non-90° — bend radii, holes and cutouts reconstructed from the drawing views. Multi-sheet weldment packs convert in one go.
Launch converterTurned and milled parts — the converter works out which. Shafts, bushes and discs revolve from their profiles; blocks rebuild from their views. Ambiguous features (bores, depths) become one-click confirmation questions on the drawing.
Launch converterConstant cross-section parts — angles, channels, tubes and machined extrusions — from section and elevation views.
Multi-feature machined parts and positioned weldment assemblies, reconstructed from full drawing packs.
No tracing, no manual re-modelling. The converter reads the drawing the way a draughtsman would.
Any vector drawing export — SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD and most CAD-generated PDFs. Multiple files at once, multi-sheet packs supported.
Part edges are separated from dimensions and annotations, views are detected and cross-referenced, and the drawing scale is verified against the dimension text — stale title-block scales get caught, not trusted.
A solid STEP AP214 model plus a conversion report: bounding box, thickness, bend and hole counts, and warnings whenever something needs a human eye.
Validated against real fabrication drawings with known-good CAD — sold, quoted and manufactured parts, not synthetic tests.
Best results: vector drawing exports from CAD systems (SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD and similar) — the kind your customers attach to RFQs. Flattened or scanned PDFs and plain images (JPEG/PNG) also convert in beta: the drawing is read from the pixels and you confirm one highlighted overall dimension to lock the scale.
A solid STEP AP214 file that opens directly in SolidWorks, Fusion, Inventor and any mainstream CAD/CAM package — plus a conversion report with dimensions, thickness, bend/hole counts and warnings.
Tick All sheets and every page converts to its own STEP, plus one combined multi-solid file with all components laid out side by side.
Files are processed on the server and deleted immediately after conversion — nothing is stored once your STEP is generated.
Every report flags what to check. Manual overrides — thickness, scale, part type and sheet number — let you correct edge cases in seconds. And if a drawing family doesn't convert well, tell us: real drawings drive the roadmap.