Import from Drafting Workspace
At a glance
- Import any sketch or flat solid face directly from your Drafting workspace
- Maintains live association — re-import after design changes with one click
- No need to export DXF manually when working entirely within JetCad3
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. 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.
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, lock state, 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.
From Design
+ From Design does the same for the Design workspace: it imports the visible Design geometry with a quantity input and conversion options (chained polylines or raw segments, with arc fitting). Design-sourced parts get the identical stale-link tracking, so a model change shows the same sync badge and one-click update.