You don't need AutoCAD, SketchUp, or expensive CAD training to create professional ornamental iron drawings. Just describe what you want to Tig, the AI built into the designer, and watch it draw — then fine-tune by hand. There's a faster way.
AutoCAD and SketchUp take weeks or months to learn. Your sales team doesn't have time to become CAD experts just to create quotes.
General-purpose CAD tools can draw anything — buildings, machinery, circuits. But that flexibility means they're not optimized for ornamental iron. You're drawing from scratch every time.
Drawing a gate or fence in CAD takes 30 minutes to an hour — if you know what you're doing. That's time you could spend closing deals.
| Feature | Ornamental Designer Pro | Traditional CAD |
|---|---|---|
| Describe a design in plain English | Tig draws it for you | Not possible |
| Time to first drawing | 5 minutes | Weeks of training |
| Time per drawing | 2-5 minutes | 30-60 minutes |
| Training required | None | Extensive |
| Ornamental iron-specific features | Built-in | Draw manually |
| Pickets, rails, arches | One-click | Manual placement |
| DXF export | Yes | Yes |
| Team usability | Anyone can use it | CAD-trained only |
| Imperial & Metric units | One-click switch | Manual conversion |
| Add custom components | We draw it for you on request | Manual redraw every time |
| Starting price | Free to design / $199 mo | Free (SketchUp) |
Every feature is designed for ornamental iron fabricators and installers. Gates, fences, and handrails — all with proper dimensions and industry-standard components.
Export to PDF for customer presentations, PNG for emails, or DXF for your plasma table. Professional drawings every time.
If you can describe a gate, you can design one. Tell Tig what you want and it draws it live, or fill out the config panel yourself — your drawing updates in real time either way.
Your sales team can create professional drawings without waiting for the one person who knows CAD. Faster quotes mean more closed deals.
Switch between inches/feet and millimeters with one click. All dimensions update instantly across the entire design — no manual conversion needed.
In CAD you redraw every custom finial, scroll, and rosette by hand. Here you don't — send us the supplier and part number and our team draws it into a clean, true-to-size component and adds it to your library, usually within a few days. The one piece you shape yourself is custom scrollwork, right in the designer.
Ornamental Designer Pro handles 90% of ornamental iron drawings. For highly custom work — unusual shapes, complex scrollwork, or architectural integration — you may still need traditional CAD. But for everyday sales drawings and fabrication specs, you don't.
Many shops use Ornamental Designer Pro for quoting and sales, then move to CAD only for the rare custom project that requires it. This saves significant time and keeps your CAD operator focused on work that actually needs their expertise.
Open the designer and create a professional drawing in minutes — no training needed.