The Drawing Store

Precision tools, built by a drafter

AutoCAD area-closure checks for land surveyors · lot checks for home buyers · 3D segmented-bowl design for woodturners — from 35 years of drafting.

AutoCAD® App · Land Surveying

Acheck

Area closure checking inside AutoCAD & Civil 3D, as a Windows program without it, or online in your browser

  • Live misclosure, precision ratio and area as you enter courses
  • One-click toggle between quadrant bearings and azimuths
  • Professional closure report PDF and parcel summary tables
  • AutoCAD & Civil 3D 2023–2027, dockable palette editor
AUTOCAD PLUGIN $300 ONCE · NO AUTOCAD $300/YEAR · ONLINE CREDITS FROM $15 · 7-DAY FREE TRIAL
Web App · Home Buyers

Parcel Check

Check the dimensions on your existing deed or survey plan — before you buy

  • Type the bearings and distances off the deed or survey — the lot draws itself
  • Exact area in metres² and hectares, or feet² and acres
  • Misclosure and precision ratio — the same check land surveyors run
  • Printable report with a labelled sketch to hold beside the plan
  • Or send us your own survey and we compare it against the deed by hand
$5 CHECK IT YOURSELF · $45 WE DO IT FOR YOU
Web App · Woodturning

Segmented Bowl Designer

Design segmented wood bowls in 3D — online in your browser or one-time Windows download

  • Draw the bowl profile, watch the 3D bowl and ring stack update live
  • Wood species per ring, two-colour segment patterns, ring rotation
  • Full cut list: miter angles, segment lengths, strip lengths, board feet
  • Export an STL for 3D printing — nothing to install
FIRST CUT LIST FREE · THEN $6 A CUT LIST · $99 ONE-TIME DESKTOP
35 years
Ontario survey drafting
2023–2027
AutoCAD & Civil 3D
7-day
free trial · no card
30-day
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From the founder

I’ve spent 35 years at the drafting board — surveys, land development, Civil 3D — as a CAD specialist in Ontario. Acheck came out of that: I got tired of checking parcel closures the slow way, so I built the check I wanted, right inside AutoCAD and Civil 3D. Segmented Bowl Designer came off my own lathe — I turn segmented bowls, and I wanted the ring counts, miter angles and cut list right before I glued anything up.

These are the tools I use myself. If they save you a re-check or a wasted blank, that’s the whole point.

— Steven Diana, The Drawing Store