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🚀 1:1 Scale Heavy-Duty CAD Templates

Double Your Shop’s Fabrication Speed. Eliminate Layout Rework.

Upload your 2D CAD drawings. We print and ship exact 1:1 scale templates on thick, sparks-resistant shop paper. Unroll, clamp to your table, and start welding.

💡 The Cost of a Mistake: A single manual layout error on a complex gate or handrail can easily cost your shop $350+ in wasted tubing and hours of grinding and layout rework. TrueFab templates guarantee perfect scale alignment right out of the tube.

⚡ 10x Faster Layouts📏 Perfect Dimensional Accuracy🔥 Heavyweight Sparks-Resistant Stock
Upload CAD & Start Your First Print
Shop-Tested Workflow

From CAD File to Finished Steel in 4 Simple Steps

Step 1: Unroll CAD template on fabrication table
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Unroll & Layout

Unroll your heavy-duty shop paper template flat on your welding table. Tape or clamp the corners down securely.

Step 2: Position square steel tubes and profile elements
STEP 2

Position & Align

Lay down your cut steel profiles, tubing, or plates directly over the printed 1:1 scale calibration lines.

Step 3: Clamp scrollwork, bars, and weldments
STEP 3

Clamp & Tack

Securely clamp pickets, scrolls, and hinge brackets. Tack-weld your metal assembly directly on the template.

Step 4: Fully welded gate assembly matching CAD design
STEP 4

Perfect-Fit Finish

Complete your structural passes. Lift off your finished metal work, guaranteed to be straight, square, and accurate.

Engineered For Industrial Shop Environments & Fabricators Nationwide

🛠️ Custom Railing Builders🚗 Off-Road & Chassis Shops📐 Structural Welder Cooperatives🎨 Architectural Metal Design
🛡️ Reliability & Precision

Our 3-Step Quality & Verification Protocol

We know that structural layout prints are useless if they aren't accurate. That's why every single drawing passes through a manual review and calibration checklist before shipping.

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Manual Scaling Verification

An experienced fabrication engineer opens and checks your CAD file drawing. We cross-verify units (inches/mm) and border metrics to ensure what prints is perfectly calibrated to your drawing intent.

🎁 Exclusive Shop Bonuses Included

Get These High-Value Bonuses Free With Every Order

We want to guarantee you have the best experience possible using full-scale layout paper. That's why we bundle these critical tools with your order.

$15 Value
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Bonus #1: Heavy-Duty Protective Storage Tube

Paper templates are easily ruined by oil, water, or general shop grime. Every order is shipped inside an ultra-thick, moisture-sealed shipping tube. Reuse it to organize and store your templates for repeat jobs indefinitely.

$49 Value
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Bonus #2: Free Technical In-House File Review

Avoid expensive printing mistakes. Instead of throwing your file blindly at an automated machine, our experienced prepress layout engineers manually verify scale, dimensions, and path completeness before we run the plotter.

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Our "Perfect-Fit" Shop Guarantee

We stand fully behind our precision wide-format plotting. If your printed template does not match your CAD drawing's dimensions, or if it gets damaged in transit during shipping, we will reprint and ship it immediately for free, or issue a 100% refund. No questions asked, no risk to your shop.

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Step 1: Upload Your Drawings

Upload multiple CAD layouts and choose your manufacturing print speed.

Drag and drop your CAD or vector layout files here

or browse files on your computer

Supports 2D DXF or DWG layout files up to 50MB each

What is a "Print-Ready" File?

Simply upload the .dxf or .dwg files you normally use to build your shop fabrication drawings. To ensure a fast, seamless print, files just need to meet three simple criteria:

  • 1.Drawn True to Scale: Your drawing does not need to be set to a 1:1 scale in CAD, as long as the proportions and dimensions are accurate (e.g., a 4-foot picket is drawn proportionally to a 10-foot rail). Our prepress team will adjust your file to print at an exact 1:1 physical scale.
  • 2.One Assembly Per Drawing: Please upload only one section of railing, gate, or structural frame per drawing so it plots cleanly on our continuous rolls.
  • 3.Don't Worry About Title Blocks: Leave your standard shop borders, title blocks, and notes right where they are! We automatically crop them out during file setup so you only print—and pay for—the physical layout you need on the table.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about our industrial 1:1 scale printing capabilities, data security, and shop policies.

No to both! We want to save your shop time, not create extra drafting work. You can send us the exact same vector .dxf or .dwg files you use to generate your standard shop drawings.

  • True-to-Scale Geometry: As long as your model is drawn proportionally true to scale, our layout engineers will handle the math to output an exact 1:1 full-scale template.
  • Automatic Border Cropping: There is no need to clean up your title blocks or shop borders. During our Free Technical In-House File Review ($49 Value), we will isolate your fabrication assembly and crop out extraneous borders so your print fits perfectly onto your welding table.
Yes, absolutely. We partner exclusively with Stripe to handle all payment card processing. Stripe is certified as a PCI-DSS Level 1 Service Provider, the highest security rating available in the payments industry. Your transaction is handled via Stripe's encrypted Setup Mode tokenization; we do not store, access, or ever log your credit card numbers on our servers.
Yes, we require a base minimum charge of $50.00 per order. This covers our technical plotter calibration, heavyweight material setups, and manual linear verification checks to ensure every print is perfectly accurate before shipping.
We officially support and recommend exporting your files as standard 2D DXF or DWG (AutoCAD 2018 or older formats). For optimal print outcomes, ensure all elements are drawn in real-world 1:1 scale, with overlapping line paths combined or cleaned. Avoid uploading files containing 3D meshes or solids.
We print using professional wide-format technical plotters specifically calibrated for tight linear scaling. Every print is verified for physical dimensional accuracy before shipping. As long as your CAD export units (Inches or Millimeters) and dimensions are correct, our printed output will match within micro-tolerances.
We want to make sure your templates are perfect. If there is a dimensional scaling error or physical shipping damage caused by our printing processes, we will reprint and ship your templates for free. Otherwise, due to the custom manufactured nature of each 1:1 template, all sales are final.
We take your design privacy and intellectual property seriously. Your uploaded CAD files (.dxf, .dwg) are stored securely on our encrypted servers for exactly 90 days after your print is completed. This provides a convenient window for you to request reprints or duplicate sets. After 90 days, your files are permanently and automatically deleted.
Yes, our paper is specifically chosen for industrial shop floors. We print on thick, heavyweight coated shop paper that stands up to heavy steel dragging and the intense heat and sparks of welding without tearing or burning. Additionally, a premium humidity-resistant barrier prevents the paper from expanding, contracting, or buckling due to temperature changes, keeping your templates perfectly accurate on the table.

Have a Question?

Need clarification on CAD file formats, custom print sizing, or delivery? Send us a message and we'll get right back to you.