We’ve launched a new monthly newsletter at KTF Software called Outside the Drawing Board.
It’s a place for sharing useful tools, real project stories, and thoughtful ideas that sit just outside the day-to-day world of CAD. Not marketing updates. Not sales emails. Just practical insight from the work we see every day across surveying, civil engineering, landscape, and the wider built environment.
The aim is simple. To create something worth opening, worth reading, and quietly useful.
Every edition of Outside the Drawing Board brings together three consistent threads:
Tools in practice
Real workflows using BricsCAD and KTF Software tools, shared in a way that focuses on how people actually work.
Field stories
Live project examples from customers working with survey data, point clouds, digital models, and real-world constraints.
Curious Corner
Films, articles, and ideas that stretch thinking beyond software buttons and features.
It’s designed to be quick to read and grounded in real use.
The first edition includes:
A practical look at working faster inside BricsCAD using everyday tools
A real-world field story from a heritage and survey workflow
The release of KTF Pointcloud 5.0, including new TIN-based cropsolid workflows and improved door and window drawing tools
A short film exploring how map projections shape perception
Rather than trying to cover everything, each issue focuses on a small number of things that genuinely feel worth sharing.
We spend every day working with surveyors, engineers, designers, and all kinds of CAD professionals. We see what works well, what causes friction, and what quietly saves time without being flashy.
Outside the Drawing Board is our way of sharing those observations in a format that is calm, consistent, and useful. Something that reflects how we work with our customers in practice.
This is the first issue of what we intend to be a steady monthly publication. Future editions will continue to focus on real workflows, practical tools, and thoughtful ideas drawn from live project experience.
We’ll continue to share updates through our usual channels as each new issue is released.
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