License
Own the whole JetCad3 CAM suite outright for one to three years
$648.00
Variant
Orders ship from the US in 1–3 business days. Standard (5–10 days) and priority (2–4 days) shipping available at checkout.
Hardware is non-returnable; defective items replaced within 30 days of delivery. Email admin@jetcad.io for support.
A Pre-Paid License for the Drafting + Full CAM teir, bought outright for a fixed term on one
computer. You pay once, up front — no recurring bill, no card kept on file,
When the term ends, it ends. If you enjoyed what JC3 has to offer, you can purchase another pre-paid license or switch to any of the other licensing options we have available.
Everything in Drafting and everything in Plasma, Oxyfuel & Laser, plus the
milling, turning, & routing workspaces:
Router — 2.5D nesting-first sheet CAM for signs, panels and nested jobs
Mill — setup-based 3-axis milling straight from the solid model, with stock
definition and work zero posted as work offsets
Contour, drill and bore, facing, chamfer, engrave, and dynamic pocketing
Adaptive roughing with optimal load control
Model-driven toolpaths that update when the part changes
GRBL, FluidNC and LinuxCNC mill posts with work offsets
Plasma, oxyfuel and laser CAM — arc-preserved G-code, kerf compensation,
factory cut charts, contour rules, auto-nesting, SheetCAM job file importing
Full 2D/3D parametric CAD and eCAD with live circuit simulation, PCB layout and routing coming soon
GcodePilot machine control, free on every tier including this one
Windows, macOS and Linux — Don't forget about JC3 Appliance which is our solution for dedicated Machine controls. JC3 becomes the OS
Every update released during your term, at no extra cost
Lathe / turning is still in development. It lands on this plan when it ships,
and a license running at that time picks it up with everything else — but buy this
for what it does today, not for turning.
license. It's on the Offline Key sign-in tab, and under Pre-Paid License in the
profile menu once you're signed in. It looks like J5FQG4O5-JZTIGEIZ-VGCT2MDU-RRMQ.
2. Enter it at checkout. The license is minted against that specific computer.
3. Download the license file from your order under Licenses on your jetcad.io
dashboard, and import it in the app: profile menu → Pre-Paid License → Import
License File. That's the moment the term starts.
After that the computer is licensed — no sign-in, no connection, no phone-home. That
is true of every way to license JetCad3, not just this one: a subscription can hand
you an offline key to carry over on a thumb drive, and the Lifetime Unlimited key is
hardware you plug in. Running without an internet connection has been a priority here
from the start, which is more than most CAD/CAM packages on the market can say.
The term runs on the calendar, not on hours used. A one-year license bought
today runs for one year from the day you activate it, whether you machine every
day or the shop sits quiet for a month. It is not a bank of hours.
One license, one computer. The license is bound to the machine code you
enter at checkout. If that computer dies or you replace it, rebind the license
to the new one from your order under Licenses on your dashboard — you do not
need to buy again. Licensing more than one computer means one license each.
Activate within a year of purchase. A license sits on the shelf for up to
365 days before it must be activated. The term itself starts at activation, not
at purchase, so buying early costs you nothing.
You can stack terms. Buy another Full CAM license while one is running and
the new term picks up the day the current one ends — no overlap, nothing wasted.
Mixing plans works too. If you hold a Full CAM license and add a Drafting
one, the Drafting term waits until the Full CAM term ends rather than running
underneath it and being wasted.
Signing in is optional. A jetcad.io account is not required to use this
license. If you do sign in, you keep the community forum and your account stays
yours; whichever plan is higher — your account's or the license's — is the one
in force, so a subscription is never downgraded by a license.
When the term ends, JetCad3 keeps running on the Free / Hobby tier. Nothing
is deleted and no file becomes unreadable — your parts and toolpaths are
standard formats saved on your own disk and stay yours regardless.
Machine code binding is what lets it stand on its own. Nothing checks in with
a server, so the license has to be tied to the hardware instead. Keep the license
file; it is how you re-import after an OS reinstall.