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Mechanical engineers/designers spend 40% of their time creating production drawings from their 3D models. It's a tedious process, error-prone, and often delays projects by weeks. DraftAid (YC W24) uses AI to automate this process with a single click:

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Rob2 years ago

GD&T and design intent is where time is spent…

Stefan2 years ago

Does this do gd&t? That’s where the real time is spent

Rob2 years ago

Happy to meet with the founders to help make sure this can become a useful product

James Cazzoli2 years ago

Mechanical Eng here: great start. Choice dimensions depend on your measurement methodology at the factory. Next step - choose datum and re-dimensions based on that. But frankly showing dimensions that are two clicks away isn’t the time consuming part.

Sarah Cone2 years ago

Coooool

Markus Reif2 years ago

Very useful tool, but a little late. Creating technical drawings is an already outdated step that I skipped early on in my work. Too time consuming and a source of confusion. The information contained in a drawing needs to be embedded in the 3D file.

Ronald Ragin'2 years ago

Let's just all agree to adopt ISO 16792 and annotate 3D models directly.

divyesh khatri2 years ago

This is super fire lol. Would’ve saved me a lot of time in a modeling class

Entropychaser2 years ago

Odds on this crashing Solidworks?

Benjamin2 years ago

Assuming NX has internal similarity option? See popular integrations are for less expensive CAD licenses minus CATIA.

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