Automatically extract dimensions, materials, and design parameters from technical drawings - then calculate production time, machine schedules, costs, and complexity for machined components - before a single part enters the shop floor.
Request a Demo All SolutionsDuring the product development phase, engineers create detailed technical drawings specifying dimensions, tolerances, materials, and geometry. Translating these into accurate manufacturing time and cost estimates is a slow, manual, and error-prone process that delays decisions and inflates costs.
Drawing AI directly addresses this bottleneck. By extracting every relevant parameter from the drawing and applying your predefined rule engine - where each material, machine, and operation has a known time value - the system calculates total production time and cost automatically - typically completing within minutes, without manual intervention.
An AI-assisted extraction and calculation engine that processes your engineering drawings and delivers structured manufacturing data - dimensions, process times, costs, and complexity - ready for downstream use
Automatically reads engineering drawings in PDF, DXF, DWG, or scanned formats - extracting dimensions, material specifications, tolerances, and surface finish requirements from structured engineering drawings with accuracy rates suited for downstream cost and time estimation workflows.
Applies your predefined manufacturing rules - where each combination of material, machine, operation, and dimension maps to a specific cycle time to calculate process times with minimal manual intervention - exceptions and edge cases are surfaced for engineer review rather than estimated blindly.
Breaks down the full manufacturing sequence across all required operations - grinding, milling, turning, drilling, welding, and more - assigning time estimates per machine and operation based on the extracted drawing data.
Aggregates machine times, material costs, setup costs, and overhead to produce a complete per-part manufacturing cost - alongside a complexity score that flags high-risk or high-effort components early in the development cycle.
Upload engineering drawings in PDF, DXF, or DWG format. Scanned drawings are supported with OCR pre-processing; extraction accuracy may vary based on scan quality and annotation style.
AI reads the drawing and extracts all manufacturing-relevant parameters: dimensions, geometric tolerances, surface finish, material grade, part weight, and any process annotations or notes.
Extracted parameters are passed through your configured rule engine. Each operation - grinding, turning, milling - is matched against the defined time tables for that material, machine, and dimensional range to calculate precise cycle times.
A complete production report is generated - total manufacturing time per operation and machine, full cost breakdown, complexity rating, and a structured data output ready for integration into your ERP or quoting system.
Designed for high-impact workflows across product development, cost engineering, production planning, and supplier quotation.
Calculate the estimated machine time per operation - grinding, milling, turning, drilling - based on material, dimensions, and your configured process rules.
Aggregate machine time, material cost, setup time, and overhead into a complete per-part cost estimate - generated automatically from the drawing, significantly reducing the manual cost engineering effort required per part from hours to a structured automated output.
Automatically flag high-complexity parts early in the design phase - identifying components with tight tolerances, difficult materials, or multi-step operations that carry the highest manufacturing risk and cost.
Generate accurate, data-backed quotes for customer RFQs in minutes - pulling production time and cost directly from the drawing analysis rather than relying on estimator experience or historical approximations.
Export structured data - extracted parameters, process times, and cost outputs - in formats compatible with leading ERP and PLM systems, enabling streamlined handoff to work order, routing, and BOM costing workflows.
