Import from Drafting Workspace
Updated v2.4.9At a glance
- Import any sketch directly from your Drafting workspace — plus vector geometry from Design
- Maintains live association — re-import after design changes with one click
- Locked parts sit out updates — already-cut parts keep their geometry and never move
- No need to export DXF manually when working entirely within JetCad3
- Sketch and Design layers carry through — with per-layer Cut/Engrave toggles for scribe marking
- Arcs stay arcs — a curve of any radius comes across true, and draws true on screen
Draw in Drafting, cut in Plasma — no DXF round trip. The + From Drafting button in the Parts browser opens a picker listing every sketch in your document; check the ones you want, set a quantity per sketch, and import. Sketches with more than one layer show per-layer Cut / Engrave toggles under the sketch row, so marking geometry drawn on its own sketch layer imports straight to an engrave layer. Each sketch runs through the same contour pipeline as a file import (construction geometry is filtered out automatically), extra quantities come in as linked duplicates, and new parts land in the staging area ready to drag onto the sheet or auto-nest.
Curves come across as real curves, whatever their size. A sweeping arc struck off a several-metre radius arrives with its exact radius intact and is drawn on screen at that radius, so what you see on the sheet matches what you drew in Drafting and what the torch will follow.
Live source links
Imported parts remember which sketch they came from, along with a fingerprint of that sketch's geometry. Edit the sketch in Drafting — stretch a slot, add a hole — and the part shows an orange sync badge in the Parts browser. Click the badge (or the Update N stale button when several parts are affected) to re-import from source: the part's position, rotation, mirror, sheet, and nesting are preserved, linked duplicates refresh in place, and toolpaths are marked dirty for the next Generate. You keep iterating on the design without ever re-placing parts.
Locked parts sit updates out. Locking a part means "this one is already cut — nest around it," and updates honor that completely: a locked part keeps its original geometry and never moves, no matter how the source sketch changes. Its badge dims to show the drawing has moved on without it, while unlocked duplicates of the same part take the new geometry in place. Cut a part, spot a mistake, lock the cut one, fix the sketch, update — the copies you still need to cut refresh, and the record of what's already on the table stays true.
From Design
+ From Design does the same for the Design workspace: it imports the visible Design geometry with a quantity input, conversion options (chained polylines or raw segments, with arc fitting), and the same per-layer Cut/Engrave toggles for Design layers. Design-sourced parts get the identical stale-link tracking, so a model change shows the same sync badge and one-click update.