The web version, today
Everything you need to produce a drawing — and now the model behind it.
The drawing, snapping and layout tools you use every day, available the moment the page opens. Carrosse is under active development — the list below keeps growing.
01
3D workspace
A 3D tab beside the drawing: members on profiles, solids, holes cut through them, equipment grouping them — and live 2D views of the model on your layouts.
- Members and columns on the AISC catalogue
- Boxes, cylinders, cones, tori, extrusions, revolutions
- Holes and cuts (CSG), resize handles
- A drawing compass: typed distances and angles along the axis the cursor leans to
- Model explorer, equipment, hide / isolate
- Clip box, navigation cube, display modes
- Drawing views on layouts, hidden lines, live dimensions
02
Drawing
The core entities, with the precision you expect from a drafting tool.
- Lines
- Polylines
- Circles
- Arcs
- Ellipses
- Rectangles
- Polygons
- Construction lines
- Points
03
Precision input
Type your values instead of aiming: absolute or relative coordinates, direct distance along the cursor, angle lock.
- 100,50
- @x,y
- 3'-6 1/2"
- 10'4-5/16"
- 2.5m
- 122.75"
04
Snapping and tracking
Every point lands exactly where it belongs. Running snaps, single-shot overrides, ortho and polar tracking at the increment you choose.
- Endpoint
- Midpoint
- Centre
- Quadrant
- Intersection
- Apparent intersection
- Perpendicular
- Tangent
- Nearest
- Grid
- Ortho
- Polar
05
Command line
The conventions you already know: type the command or its alias, Space repeats the last one, and a fuzzy-search palette finds the rest.
- L · line
- PL · polyline
- TR · trim
- O · offset
- Ctrl+P · palette
06
Selecting and editing
Window or crossing selection, grips on every vertex, and the full set of modify commands — plus quick select by property.
- Trim / extend
- Offset
- Fillet
- Mirror
- Stretch
- Array
- Align
- Quick select
07
Layers and line styles
Name, colour, lock, plot or no-plot, transparency and groups. Export your whole layer table as a reusable standard and import it into another drawing.
- Transparency 0–90%
- Groups
- Isolate
- Linetypes
- Lineweights
- .rlay standards
08
Dimensions
Dimensions are never frozen: they are recomputed from the geometry, and associative — stretch a wall and its dimension follows. Replace a value with your own text while keeping the measurement live.
- Aligned
- Horizontal
- Vertical
- Radius
- Diameter
- Angular
- Dimension styles
- Alternate units
09
Text and hatches
A rich-text editor, and hatches that trace their own boundary from a point inside — islands included.
- Bold / italic
- Alignment
- Leaders
- ANSI31–38
- BRICK · EARTH · STEEL
- .pat patterns
- Gap tolerance
10
Dynamic blocks
One block, several variants: visibility states, stretch, flip and rotation become grips on every instance. Attributes carry whatever data you want in them.
- Visibility states
- Stretch
- Flip
- Rotation
- Attributes
- Block editor
11
Steel shapes (AISC)
The full AISC database. Search the designation and the section is generated true to scale, with real fillet radii, then saved as a block.
- W12X26
- W · M · S · HP beams
- C · MC channels
- WT · MT · ST tees
- L · 2L angles
- HSS · pipe
12
Layouts and viewports
Draw at real-world scale in model space, then compose the sheet in paper space: title block, notes and viewports at an exact scale, locked so it stays put.
- 1/4"=1'-0"
- 1:50
- 1"=10'
- Locked scale
- Multiple layouts
13
Files
Exchange DXF with other drafting software, and work day to day in Carrosse’s own format.
DXF
import and export · R2000
.rcad
open and save
14
PDF plotting
Plot the layout to a true vector PDF at the exact scale, lineweights in real millimetres: a 1:50 drawing measures 1:50 on paper.
- Vector PDF
- Exact scale
- Real lineweights
