3D assembly drafting · 247 industrial platform
Prove the reach before you quote it.
247 Drafter builds bulk loading and unloading systems in 3D, in a browser. Enter the vehicle and it solves the reach envelope, checks clearance, and exports the drawings and the bill of material.
Schematic. The solver takes the vehicle spec — car type, hatch position, plate dimensions — and returns the swept envelope for the arm, the reachable hatch window, and the clearance result.
The specification gap
Most loading projects are lost in the geometry.
Not on price. On whether the arm actually reaches the hatch on the cars the customer actually runs — and how long it takes anyone to answer that with confidence.
Quoting without a model
- Reach is estimated off a data sheet and a phone call, then corrected on site.
- The customer can't picture what they're buying, so the decision stalls.
- Every revision means another round trip to a drafter with a CAD seat.
- Clearance and fall-protection questions surface late, after steel is priced.
- A mis-specified arm becomes a field change order and a damaged relationship.
Quoting from a solved model
- Vehicle spec goes in; the reach envelope and clearance result come out.
- The customer sees their own layout in 3D on the first call.
- Revisions happen live, in the browser, while you're still talking.
- OSHA and AAR checks run as you build, not after.
- The drawing set and bill of material fall out of the model you already agreed on.
The keystone capability
Vehicle-driven reach solving
This is the part that is hard to do any other way, and it is the reason the rest of the tool exists.
Start from the vehicle
Car or trailer type, hatch and nozzle positions, plate dimensions, spot tolerance. The geometry problem is defined by what the customer actually loads, so that is where the model starts.
Get the swept envelope
The solver returns the reachable volume for the arm at its pivot and mounting height, the usable hatch window inside it, and where the envelope runs out.
Check it clears
AAR plate clearance is evaluated against the solved envelope. Access and fall-protection geometry is checked by a separate OSHA validator as the assembly is built.
Why it matters commercially. The reach answer is the difference between a quote a customer trusts and a quote they shop. Producing it in minutes rather than days is the whole argument for putting this in front of your sales and applications engineers.
What else is in the box
A drafting tool, not a viewer.
The model is buildable, checkable and exportable. Everything below is a working module, not a roadmap item.
True CAD parts mode
Articulates real geometry exported from STEP, so the parts that move are the parts you actually ship — not a stand-in mesh.
Snap assembly with joint rules
Connection sockets carry a joint compatibility matrix, so incompatible pipe and fitting combinations refuse to connect instead of quietly passing through to a drawing.
OSHA validation
Access, platform and fall-protection geometry is validated against the model as you build, so the compliance conversation happens before fabrication.
Bill of material export
The assembly you built is the assembly that gets counted. BOM export comes off the same model as the drawings.
Guided build wizard
A step-through flow for people who don't live in CAD, with product-type quick-fills for common services so a starting configuration is one selection away.
Operator demonstration mode
A live control panel driven against the 3D scene the customer just built — so a demo shows their layout being operated, not a generic animation.
Not only loading
The engine is open. Name the model.
Loading arms and railcars are what we built first, and what proved the solver. The Drafter takes any engineered 3D model system — our engineers design the model of what you manufacture and integrate it, so your team can demonstrate your own solutions in a browser.
Whatever you build
A conveyor line, a switchgear lineup, a mezzanine, a pump skid, a casework run. If it is engineered, configurable and has to fit a real space, it is a candidate.
Your parts, your rules
Our engineers build the 3D model from your CAD, your standard configurations and your engineering rules — then integrate it into the same engine.
In front of the customer
Your sales and applications engineers configure your product live, and leave with a layout and a material list instead of a promise to follow up.
Configurators render. This one checks. A visual configurator will happily show a combination that cannot physically be built. The Drafter assembles against real connection sockets and joint rules, solves the geometry, and refuses what does not mate — which is why the loading work is the proof rather than the limit.
Built for manufacturers and integrators
Your product, specified correctly, faster.
247 Drafter is designed to sit inside an equipment manufacturer's or integrator's sales process — not to replace your engineering department.
Shorten the gap between inquiry and quote
Applications engineers answer the reach and clearance question on the first call instead of scheduling one. The layout the customer sees becomes the layout you quote.
Catch mis-specs before steel is cut
Joint compatibility, clearance and access checks run against the model, which moves the expensive discoveries out of the field and into the browser.
Model your catalogue, not a generic one
Product-type specifications, containment pan geometry and structural steel definitions are data-driven, so your parts and your standards can be represented.
Runs in a browser
No CAD licence, no install, no workstation requirement for the person you are trying to sell to. That is what makes it usable in a sales conversation.
See it solve your hardest layout.
Bring the car type and the arm you argue about most. Twenty minutes, screen shared, no deck.
Sam Doyle · 247 Industrial Platform · Cary, NC