A concept of the global metallurgy development tends to saving materials. Now, there is a decrease in steel production, while increasing steel consumption. It is required to improve structural strength of products, including wire and its products. To produce strong wire, it is required to ensure a high degree of total deformation and carbon content. Drawing still has limitations attributed to the nature of the process, such as front end strength and fracture, which are to be monitored at the stage of designing drawing schedules. By applying finite-element modeling in Deform-3d, the authors analyzed dependences of deformation, when drawing round wire, 16.0 mm in diameter, from steel grade 80. They determined the dependences, when a drawing process is running without fracture, serving as a basis to propose a new approach to calculating drawing schedules.