What it does
Build a platoon, a band or a Colour party, sequence drill movements on a timeline, then play the routine back on a parade square measured in real paces. Movements are modelled from the manual — turns, wheels, inclines, dressing, sizing, saluting, and the Chapter 7 formation and flank movements — with the commander and warrant officer marching their own correct paths rather than being dragged along with the body.
- Per-member selection, so individuals can be given their own movements.
- A timeline with explicit start ticks — different members can move at the same time.
- Scrub, step, and pause playback; validation flags overlaps and broken dressing.
- Save and reload routines locally as JSON.
Try a routine
Pick a demo to open it in the simulator, already loaded and ready to play. You can edit it from there, or clear it and start your own.
- March On Playbook The March On! Competition 2026 compulsory sequence — the marker and the fall-in, sizing, dressing, marching on, headdress, and the halt — mapped onto the modelled CF-201 movements.
- March On Playbook — With Arms The cadet drill-team competition sequence performed with the Lee-Enfield: the march on, the sheet's own judged orders at the halt and on the march, and the march off. Ground arms is in it, on a defined parade square and at the open order, exactly where the score sheet puts it.
- March On Playbook — Colour Party The competition's other score sheet — the one for the Colour party rather than the platoon. Its thirty judged orders, marched on from the rear centre of the square: two changes of direction by forming, a spiral countermarch, a full circle of left wheels with the Colours let fly and caught inside it, and the escorts' arms drill.
- March On Playbook — Colour Party without Arms The same thirty judged orders as the card above, for a party whose escorts are unarmed — the competition's other flag-party sheet. The general salutes are paid by hand, and the Colours come down to the order for the rests and back to the carry, which is the whole of Ch.8's halt drill in one sequence.
- March on the Colours A Colour party of two Colour officers, a master warrant officer and two armed escorts. The Colours come to the carry, are let fly and caught again on the march — the compliment a bearer pays where everyone else salutes — and the party reverses twice by spiral countermarch before halting to a present arms.
- Lee-Enfield Rifle Drill Every modelled rifle position and the transitions between them — the order, the short trail, the slope on either shoulder, the port, the present and the funeral reverse, with the dressing and the salutes that change when a rifle is in the way.
- Firing Volleys A funeral guard fires three volleys with the C7, as CF 201 Ch.4 §2 orders them — load, present, fire and reload three times, then make safe and shoulder arms.
More routines are on the way. Prefer a blank parade square? Open the simulator empty.
Legal
- License
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CAF Drill Routine Simulator — Proprietary License. © 2026 Matthew Dodd. All rights reserved.
This software is free to use by anyone but is not open-source. Individual, cadet, CAF, and corporate users alike may install, access, and run it at no charge for any lawful purpose — there is no license fee and no permission to seek. You may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of it. The source code is proprietary and confidential.
Attribution is requested, not required. If the tool helps you plan or teach a routine, a credit is appreciated — but it is a request, not a condition of use, and nothing is enforced.
This is a plain-language summary; the downloadable full text governs.
- Drill reference
- Movements are modelled from the Canadian Forces Manual of Drill and Ceremonial (A-DH-201-000/PT-000), © His Majesty the King in Right of Canada (Crown copyright). Symbols and figures are redrawn for this tool and used as reference; this project is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, the Canadian Armed Forces or the Department of National Defence. The manual is the authority — where this simulator and the manual disagree, the manual is right.
- No warranty
- Provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. It is a visualisation aid, not an authoritative source for drill instruction or for qualification.
- Privacy
- No accounts and no tracking. Routines you build are saved in your own browser’s local storage and are never uploaded on their own. The one exception is deliberate and yours to make: if you use Report an Issue in the simulator, the report sends your description, your browser version and country, your email only if you choose to type one, and — unless you untick the box — the routine you are working on, so the bug can be reproduced. No IP address is stored, and the stored report is deleted automatically after a retention window. So that a report is not missed, a copy of your description (and your email address, if you gave one) is sent to the maintainer’s inbox, where it is kept until they delete it.
About
Built by a former member and current civilian instructor with CJCR who has an interest in getting drill looking and running right on screen. This tool was created as a way to plan and teach routines without needing a parade square and thirty people, or writing it all manually on paper.
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