Before we talk about the future, let’s zoom out for a second.

This year, over 12,000 of you chose to read a newsletter about GD&T, drawings, machining, tolerances, and all the unglamorous-but-critical stuff that actually makes hardware work.

That still feels kind of wild.

Somehow, a corner of the internet dedicated to engineering clarity became a thing, and you showed up. Weekly. Thoughtfully. Sometimes angrily (we see you, parallelism discourse). Mostly with great questions.

So: thank you. Seriously.

Check out the rest below to see how you helped shape Drafter’s 2025.

Next year, we’re aiming bigger.

Our goal is to help build the largest network of engineers, machinists, and deeply curious manufacturing brains on the internet.

Not a social network full of noise.

We’re investing heavily in education, workflow clarity, and tools that make drawings feel less like a chore and more like… documentation that actually works.

A lot of you have asked some version of:

So we finally did it.

It’s a single page with everything we’ve built so far:

No scavenger hunt.

Just the good stuff, organized.

Bookmark it. Share it. Send it to the coworker who keeps dimensioning to edges.

Whether you’ve been reading since issue #1 or just joined last week, thanks for being part of this.

2026 is going to be about going deeper, not louder.

As always, if there’s something you want us to explain, build, or tear apart (politely): email us here.

See you next year,

The Drafter Team