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About Draftware Inc.

Reading legacy CAD drawings without the original system

Draftware Inc. makes software for engineers who hold drawings created in older CAD systems from Computervision and PTC. The company says its tools have been reading legacy files since 1988, including CADDS 4X and CADDS 5 designs and Personal Designer drawings, so that users can open, print and convert them without the original software.

DraftView for CADDS and Personal Designer

Its CADDS viewer handles CADDS 4X and CADDS 5 designs, letting users view, print or translate them. The company says it reads the files directly, without intermediate conversions, importers or CADDS licenses, and that it shows 2D, 3D, explicit and parametric entities as they appeared in the original system. DraftView for Personal Designer is a native Windows application that views, prints and exports Personal Designer drawings, and it also opens drawings made in several other older CAD packages. Its DXF translator converts Personal Designer drawings into DXF.

Other tools and services

The company also offers the DV-CADDS API, ckCAD for CADDS users, ViewStation for Medusa and PolyWare for medical data. Its services include CAD translation projects and X-ray image analysis. It hosts forums for past and present users of CADDS and Personal Designer, where those users can exchange help on their legacy work.

TrustList summary

Draftware Inc. develops software for engineers who still hold drawings in older Computervision and PTC CAD formats. Since 1988 its products have let users open, print and convert CADDS 4X, CADDS 5 and Personal Designer data directly, without keeping the original CAD systems running.

Products and services

DraftView for CADDS: views, prints and translates CADDS 4X and CADDS 5 designs without intermediate conversions or CADDS licences, supporting 2D, 3D, explicit and parametric entities.
DraftView for Personal Designer: a Windows application for viewing, printing and exporting DRW drawings, including files from Personal Machinist, microCADDS, MicroDraft and 4Design.
DXF translation: converts Personal Designer drawings to DXF.
Other tools: the DV-CADDS API, ckCAD for CADDS, ViewStation for Medusa and PolyWare for medical use.
Services: CAD translation work and X-ray image analysis.

Clients

Its users are engineering teams with archives of legacy CAD data; staff quoted on its site work at Ingersoll-Rand and Halliburton. It also hosts forums for past and present CADDS and Personal Designer users.

Key facts

Active since: 1988
Formats supported: CADDS 4X, CADDS 5, Personal Designer
Platform: Windows

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Nov 2026.

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