Patent illustration
Patent drawings from your CAD model
Need a patent illustrator? If the invention exists as a CAD model, send us the STEP file. We draw the figures from the model's own geometry: black line views, exploded views and sections, with reference numerals on lead lines, ready for your attorney or agent to file.
What we draw
- Perspective and orthographic views (front, top, side), each as its own figure, numbered FIG. 1, FIG. 2 and on.
- Exploded views, with the separated parts bracketed as the US rules ask.
- Reference numerals with lead lines to the parts, matching the numbers in your description.
- Solid black lines of even weight on white, with no colour, grey fill, frames or centre lines.
- A4 sheets, or US letter for a US filing, with the patent office's margins.
The figures follow the drawing rules: 37 CFR 1.84 for the US patent office, and Schedule 2 of the Patents Rules 2007 for the UK. Because every line is computed from the CAD model, the views agree with each other exactly, and a changed design is redrawn from the new model rather than retouched.
What it costs
£150 for up to three figures. More figures, or a whole set of design-patent views, are quoted at a fixed price before we start.
Fixed before we start, and you pay by Stripe invoice when the files are delivered. No VAT is charged: Galaxy Technology isn't VAT registered. We reply within 1 working day, and draw one figure free first so you can judge it. One round of changes is included.
What stays with you and your attorney
- We draw what the CAD model shows, in the views you ask for. We don't advise on what to patent, what to claim or which figures to include.
- Your patent attorney or agent checks the figures and files the application. We don't file anything, and we make no claim about whether a patent will be granted.
- Your files are used only for your job, never shared, and deleted 30 days after delivery. If you need a non-disclosure agreement first, send it and we'll reply before you send the file. The terms (clause 18) set this out.
Draw them yourself instead
The same drawings come out of the studio, in your browser, with nothing uploaded: exact line views and exploded views free, and balloons, parts lists and manuals on Pro. These are from the example manual.
A parts page: exploded view, 16 balloons and the parts list, placed for you.
An assembly manual: 11 steps on 5 pages, worked out from the explosion.- Free, in the studio. Exact hidden-line drawings and exploded views of up to 250 parts, as SVG, DXF, PDF or PNG, with no account.
- Pro, £49 a month per editor. Balloons and parts lists, step-by-step assembly manuals as PDF, your own title block and logo, and drawings that follow the CAD when it changes. Just one job? Project pass: Pro for 30 days, £79 once, with nothing to cancel.
- Or we draw it for you, from £150. Send the STEP file and we draw one view free first, so you can judge it before you pay anything. Drawings done for you.
Businesses only, like all our paid services. Questions first? Email hello@lineplate.com. For drawings for manuals and catalogues rather than patents, see technical illustration.