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RustDraft is now DraftCraft™. Version 2.0.0 carries the DraftCraft name, logo and app icon, as SkryxDev and WithShalom Studios bring their drafting apps together. Everything you had in RustDraft is here, under the new name.

New name, same app

  • The app is DraftCraft: DraftCraft.app on macOS, DraftCraft.exe on Windows, draftcraft and draftcraft-cli on the command line, and the repository is now SkryxDev/DraftCraft (the old links redirect).
  • The compass icon on a blueprint tile, everywhere: the Dock, the taskbar, the window and the installers.
  • Your settings come with you. The first time 2.0 starts, it moves RustDraft's settings, logs, plotters and autosaves to DraftCraft's folder, with the window size and your options.
  • Your drawings open whole. Drawings saved by RustDraft 1.x name DraftCraft's own data (constraints, layer states, plot styles, the drafting font, the built-in plotters) with the old name; 2.0 reads them as before.

New on Windows: the menu bar in the title bar

DraftCraft draws its own title bar on Windows, with the menu bar (File, Edit, View … Help) in it, so the menu bar no longer takes a row of its own under the ribbon. Drag the empty title bar to move the window, double-click it to maximize, and resize from any edge or corner. Set DRAFTCRAFT_TITLEBAR=system to keep Windows' own title bar.

Fixed

  • A minimized ribbon opened again only from the tab that minimized it; a click on any tab now opens it, on that tab.

Linux: an AppImage

Linux gets a single AppImage that runs on any distribution: chmod +x draftcraft-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it. ./draftcraft-linux-x86_64.AppImage cli … runs the command-line tool and MCP server.

Still here from 1.1

  • CONIC: exact ellipse, parabola and hyperbola arcs from a start point, an apex, an end point and rho, saved as rational splines that AutoCAD opens.
  • DWG files from DraftCraft open in AutoCAD at every version (2000 to 2018).
  • The update check at start and Help › Check for Updates….

Downloads

System File
Windows 10 and 11 (x64) draftcraft-windows-x64.zip
Windows on ARM draftcraft-windows-arm64.zip
macOS 11 or later (Apple silicon) draftcraft-macos-arm64.dmg
Linux x86_64, any distribution draftcraft-linux-x86_64.AppImage

draftcraft-cli-macos-arm64.zip is the macOS command-line tool on its own; the other downloads include draftcraft-cli too. Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt. The file names no longer carry the version, so https://github.com/SkryxDev/DraftCraft/releases/latest/download/<file> always gives the newest.

The builds aren't code-signed yet:

  • Windows: unzip and run DraftCraft.exe; if SmartScreen warns, choose More info, then Run anyway.
  • macOS: drag DraftCraft to Applications. The first time, open it, then System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/DraftCraft.app).
  • Linux: make the AppImage executable and run it.

If you use DraftCraft's MCP server with Claude or another agent, point it at the new path: /Applications/DraftCraft.app/Contents/MacOS/draftcraft-cli on macOS.

Questions, ideas or bugs? Join the Discord or open an issue.

DraftCraft™ and the DraftCraft logo are trademarks of WithShalom Studios, used by agreement. DraftCraft is not affiliated with Autodesk, Inc.; AutoCAD and DWG are Autodesk's trademarks.

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