Design Faster. Fabricate Smarter. Built for Metal.

3D CAD software designed for metal fabricators. Stairs, railings, structural steel, and sheet metal, automated from design through fabrication-ready output.

Most CAD Tools Were Built for Mechanical Engineers

Metal fabricators have been making them work for decades. The result is the same whether you’re using AutoCAD, Inventor, or a patchwork of different tools: hours of manual setup on every project, miter calculations done by hand, no automation for the tasks that repeat constantly, and drawings that don’t map cleanly to what happens on the shop floor.

Smaller shops often work from sketches or 2D drawings, which limits their ability to visualize designs, quote accurately, and compete for jobs that increasingly require 3D model exchange with architects and general contractors.

The tools exist to solve this. Most fabricators just don’t know it yet.

TENADO METAL 3D Is Built Around How Fabrication Shops Actually Work

TENADO METAL 3D handles the design work that general-purpose CAD makes you do manually. Automated generators for stairs, railings, and structural components produce complete parametric 3D models in minutes. A built-in IFC interface keeps you connected to projects where architects and general contractors are working in BIM. Sheet metal tools handle unfolding, bend allowances, and cut list generation automatically. Fabrication drawings and bills of materials are generated directly from your 3D model.

Built on Autodesk Inventor technology, TENADO METAL 3D delivers a familiar, high-performance interface with metal fabrication workflows built in from the start.

Design Faster

Metal-specific generators, automated miter calculations, and parametric tools take the manual effort out of complex design work. What used to take hours takes minutes.

Win More Bids

A built-in IFC interface keeps you in BIM-driven projects. High-quality 3D renderings and material visualizations give clients a clear picture of what they’re buying, and help you close faster.

Get Productive Fast

Designed for how fabricators think, not how mechanical engineers think. New users get up to speed quickly, without the learning curve of general-purpose CAD platforms.

Trusted by Metal Fabricators Across Europe for More Than 35 Years

TENADO has been developing CAD software specifically for the metal industry since 1989. For over 35 years, the platform has been tested on virtually every type of metal fabrication work — and continuously improved because of it. What’s available to US fabricators now isn’t a new product. It’s a mature, field-proven platform that’s been localized completely for the US market, with AISC profiles, US fastener standards, and imperial measurement built in from day one.

35+ Years

Developing CAD software specifically for the metal industry.

Thousands of Users

Designers and fabricators across Europe rely on TENADO every day.

Production-Proven

The same platform trusted by European fabricators, localized for the US market.

Novatoria Case Study

Novatoria, a steel and metal structures company based in Amsterdam, implemented TENADO METAL 3D to handle growing project volume without adding headcount. The results included a 3x increase in productivity and a 67% reduction in admin time.

See TENADO METAL 3D Running on Real Work

We offer personal live demonstrations with a TENADO specialist. See a real walkthrough of the platform using project scenarios relevant to your trade, with time to ask questions.