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Overview

CADRA Design Drafting Software

CADRA delivers measurable productivity gains through 3D solids integration and design automation. Featuring a modern Ribbon GUI and Windows 11 support, it streamlines workflows with automated BOMs and multi-format compatibility. Reduce costs and accelerate time to market with this robust CAD tool.

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Benefits

  • Measurable productivity gains
  • 3D solids integration

Design automation features

  • Macro programming language
  • Visual Basic Object model interface
  • CADRA-LIB commonly used parts
  • CADRA-BOM Bill Of Materials automation
  • CADRA-EDM- Data Management facility
  • Read and/or write to CADAM, CADDS, DWG, DXF, IGES, PDF, HPGL, MICROCADAM, CATIA, CCD

Recent enhancements

  • Support for Windows 11.
  • New, ribbon-style GUI and expanded menu list for improved usability.
  • Organized CADRA user files into individual user directories to enable multi-user access on a single PC.
  • CADRA proactively notifies users when their license is nearing expiration, preventing unexpected downtime.
  • CADRA has been enhanced to allow users to identify and manipulate OLE objects embedded within drawings, providing the same level of control as with other basic drawing components.
  • CADRA has been enriched with the integration of many new COM-based application programming interfaces.
  • CADRA now includes an “Accept” button in the Layer mapping interface, providing a clear visual confirmation when changes have been applied.

CADRA Design Drafting Software Resources

CADRA Resources

CADRA is a portfolio of affordable, easy-to-use software tools. There is a wide variation of different CADRA products and functionalities. Explore the following resources to learn which CADRA solutions are right for you. 

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CADRA Key Features

2.5 Drafting: Simple, Accurate, Robust, Cost-Effective

CADRA Design Drafting Software provides measurable productivity gains for drafters, designers, and engineers with a variety of one-touch quick tools that allow them to accomplish in a single step what most other CAD tools take multiple steps to do.

Fast and Easy

CADRA Annotation allows you to add entities to help you enhance your documentation needs. Annotation entries are on their own layer making it easy to blank and unblank annotation entities. CADRA files and annotations are saved in the same file.

CADRA Annotation allows you to add entities to help you enhance your documentation needs.

Measurable Productivity with CADRA Capabilities

CADRA Design Drafting Software has a suite of translators and other options that allow for measurable productivity gains and design quality improvements. Designers, Drafters, and Engineers can take advantage of a variety of “one-touch” Quick* tools that allow them to accomplish in a single step what most other CAD tools take multiple steps to do.  

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Connect and Share

Superior translators are what make CADRA stand out in a crowd. We have interfaces available for DWG, DXF,  MICROCADAM, CADAM, PRO-CADAM, CCD, CATIA, CADDS, and IGES.

CADRA has a superior translation ability.
CADRA Beta Program

Beta Program Details

Being part of the Beta Team provides an opportunity to check out new features and offer product feedback. You can test out your programs and files before the next version of CADRA gets publicly released.

Join our Beta program today!
Send an email to us at CADRA.Beta.us@siemens.com

Cadra Beta Program