Dimensions that drive the drawing
Smart dimensions read what you click: lengths, angles, radii, distances. Type a new value and the geometry follows. Blue means still free; white means fully defined.
Beta 1.4 is outSketch with intent.
Sketch with intent.
Change your mind freely.
Start messy. End perfect. Drift handles everything in between, and never asks you to commit too early.
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What's in it
The precision of CAD, the pace of a sketch
Drift borrows constraint sketching from mechanical CAD and makes it quick enough for early design: plans, sections, details, joinery, signage and fabrication drawings.
Relations at a flick
Hold Q and flick towards horizontal, tangent, equal or symmetric. Drift adds the obvious ones as you draw, and refuses ones that would over-define the sketch, with a reason.
Parameters and variants
Name a value, width = 1200, and drive dimensions with expressions. Drag a slider to watch the sketch re-solve, and keep named variants to compare options side by side.
Views on the canvas
Crop named views of the model right on the canvas, Revit-style, and place them on sheets. Each view picks its layers and its own dimensions and notes; section and elevation marks link to the views they cut.
Poché, hatches and fills
Click inside a closed area to hatch it: concrete, earth, insulation, brick, or any AutoCAD or Revit .pat file. Fills stay on their outlines through every edit.
Blocks and a furniture library
Doors, windows, fixtures and furniture to drop in, or make blocks of your own. Edit one and every copy updates. DXF blocks come across both ways.
Sheets, title blocks and output
Lay views out on A4 to A0 or ANSI sheets with a title block and revisions. Export true-scale vector PDF, SVG or DXF, and trace over PDF, DWG and DXF underlays.
Colour, greyscale or black & white
Choose per sheet how it prints: in colour, in greys, or as a crisp monochrome plot. The sheet preview shows exactly what comes out.
Draw with AI
drift-mcp lets Claude and other MCP assistants sketch, constrain, dimension, render and analyse Drift drawings: live, in the drawing you have open, or from a short Drift script.
Beta 1.4 is out
What's new in Beta 1.4
Beta 1.4 is here. Here's what's new.
Imports that look like the file
PDF and Illustrator files come in true to the original: CMYK colours through the file's colour profile, fills with their own opacity, and opaque fills hiding the lines beneath. Scans and photos arrive as underlay pictures, and a scan-only page can be an underlay.
Big drawings, fast again
Changes after a large import commit in about a second instead of minutes: 372 seconds down to 1.1 on a dense 72,000-curve sheet.
Layers by the hundred
The Layers panel gains a filter once there are more than 8 layers, Isolate to show just one (End isolate brings the rest back), and long names shortened in the middle.
Panels that fit
Floating panels size to their contents, fold to their headers, and stay where you put them.
Drags that behave
Lines carried along by a move keep their length, free curves always move, and drags settle the same at any size and position. Curves ending on an arc close their areas, and tangency at an unshared end is recognised.
Fixes and safeguards
Block copies in inch DWG and DXF drawings come in at the right size, geometry far from the origin is flagged (import reports can select it), and two crashes are gone. Drawings saved by Beta 1.4 don't open in earlier betas.
Feels familiar
Keys you already know
Drift is made for people who already draw in Revit, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Illustrator or Affinity. Units can be millimetres or feet-and-inches with fractions, typed any way you like: 1'-6 1/2", 450mm,=width/2.
The pen draws like Illustrator's. G moves and R rotates, Blender-style, with X and Y to lock an axis. Ctrl/⌘+K finds every command.
Coming from another program →- FastSketches of thousands of entities solve in milliseconds, on the GPU-drawn canvas.
- ExactLines, arcs and text stay crisp at any zoom, and files keep every number exactly.
- Plays well with othersDWG and DXF in, DXF out, plus SVG, PDF and Illustrator import, as geometry or as an underlay to trace.
- YoursPlain-text .drift files that diff in git. No account, nothing in the cloud.
No install
Try Drift in your browser
The full app runs in the browser with WebGPU, or WebGL2 on older browsers. Your work is kept in the browser between visits, and you can download it as a .drift file.
Download
Get the beta
Drift is in beta for Windows and macOS, and runs in your browser too. About the licence.
Download for WindowsBeta 1.4 · 12 MBDownload for macOSBeta 1.4 · 34 MBOpen Drift in your browserNothing to install
- WindowsInstaller, 64-bit
- macOSApple silicon and Intel
- Windows zipNo installer, 64-bit
- Browser Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari
- Linux Build from source