Fill missing hours
A short day says so. Add the hours to any job, with a note of what you did.
Free beta for Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD usersEvery CAD hour,
Every CAD hour,
on the right job.
CADHours records which job you are working on while you work - so at the end of the day your timesheet is already written. No timers. No guessing. Nothing to remember.
Records while you model Inventor and AutoCAD No account, no cloud Free beta until 1 December 2026
Sound familiar?
Friday afternoon. Which job was Tuesday?
A timesheet filled in from memory is a guess. And guesses cost: jobs quoted on hours nobody really knows, overtime nobody can show, and work that simply disappears.
- Rebuilding Tuesday from file dates, emails and memory.
- Hours that round the wrong way - and jobs that quietly lose them.
- The workshop visit, the customer call and the old job that needed no model, gone without a trace.
CADHours writes it down as it happens - minute by minute, job by job - and hands it back when you need it.
Your day, already written
Open the summary. Copy. Done.
Each job with its hours, a short comment and a timeline of the day - ready to paste into your timesheet.
- Jobs found from your project folders, such as TS487 - Test Station.
- A short comment on a job - Spacing of rollers reduced to 60 mm at customer request - writes the story behind the hours, so a customer's question, a handover or the next quote starts from what was actually done.
- Meetings and calls timed too - nothing counts twice.
- Working hours, overtime and leave worked out for you.
| Job | Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| TS487 | 4.00 | Cable tray rerouted; the old route clashed with the pneumatic line. |
| BR132 | 1.50 | Spacing of rollers reduced to 60 mm at customer request |
| Customer meeting task | 1.25 | Customer changed the spec from manual operation to partially automated. |
| LK108 | 0.50 | Lid hinge changed to stainless at the customer's request. |
| Total | 7.25 | of 9.00 h · on track |
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See it work
The whole idea in 60 seconds
Open a job and the clock starts. Switch files, switch jobs, time a meeting - and the day's hours are ready. Every step has a caption.
Test Station, Metal Container and Blower sample models and drawing courtesy of Autodesk, Inc. The jobs shown are made up.
Inventor and AutoCAD
Inventor and AutoCAD, on the same timesheet
Model in Inventor, lay out in AutoCAD - CADHours follows both, so the hours for one job end up on one line.
- Both open? The window in front gets the time.
- Full AutoCAD only - not AutoCAD LT.
Inventor
Frame.iptAutoCAD
Test Station Layout.dwgTS487 - Test Stationone line, one total
Away from the screen
Not every hour is spent in CAD
The workshop, the customer, the phone call. Those hours count too.
"You were away - what was it?"
Back from the shop floor? It asks what the time was, so it lands on the right job.
Meetings, timed in one click
Start a task from the tray, or add it afterwards. It never counts twice.
Always in view
One glance tells you where the time is going
A slim strip stays on top of your windows without taking focus from your CAD program. Its colour says it all.
- Green - A job is being timed, with the active file or drawing.
- Blue - A meeting or a call, timed by hand. CAD time waits.
- Amber - Lunch, or a job you chose to leave out - not counted.
- Grey - Nothing is being timed, and why.
How it works
Set up in a minute, then forget it
- 1
Install it once
It starts with Windows and sits in the tray. No server, no administrator, no account.
- 2
Just work
Open, model, switch jobs. The time follows the file on your screen to its job - found from the folder it is saved in.
- 3
Copy your hours
At the end of the day: a glance at the summary, a short comment on what changed, and paste into your timesheet.
Who it is for
Made for people who design in Inventor or AutoCAD all day
Design engineers
Spend the day in Inventor, not in a timesheet. Every job you open is accounted for.
Draughtsmen and detailers
Many drawings across many jobs, in Inventor or AutoCAD - each hour lands on the right one.
Engineering leads
Real hours per job - the numbers to quote the next job on, not a Friday-afternoon guess.
Questions
Good to know
Do I have to start and stop anything?
No. It books the time to the job of the file you have open. You only time things that happen away from the CAD screen.
Which CAD programs does it work with?
Autodesk Inventor and full AutoCAD, on their own or both at once. AutoCAD LT cannot be tracked.
How does it know which job a file belongs to?
From the folder the file is saved in - a folder named like "TS487 - Test Station" books to TS487. Other layouts are set up once in Settings.
What about time away from the CAD screen?
Time meetings and calls from the tray, fill in a short day afterwards, and after half an hour away it asks what the time was.
Can I see a job's CAD time apart from its meetings?
Yes - tick it in Settings and each job shows CAD, non-CAD and the total. CADHours does not spot meetings by itself: non-CAD time is what you time or add.
Can I get a PDF or Excel report?
Yes - for a day, a week, a month or any dates, for all your jobs or just some, in full or on one page.
Does it change my files or slow my CAD program down?
No. It only reads which file is open - it never changes your files or settings.
Who can see my hours?
Only you. Everything stays in your Windows profile and nothing is sent anywhere. You decide what to copy into your timesheet or export - and Backup and restore saves a copy to a USB stick whenever you like.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta, which runs until 1 December 2026.
Stop rebuilding your week from memory
Free until 1 December 2026. Installs for your Windows account in under a minute.