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Engineering Drawing Rework

Engineers and drafters spend excessive manual effort creating, checking, and correcting technical drawings, causing errors, rework, and delays.

In their words

will have 10+ items that need to be hand drawn and submitted to engineering, which isn't difficult but is a huge time consuming pain

r/MechanicalEngineering on Reddit

Im getting tired of scanning pdfs into cad and tracing..... The As-built documentation I get is absolute trash.

r/MEPEngineering on Reddit

Create an AI workflow for composing already made drawings into our company's sheet format.

r/sidehustleIndia on Reddit

it eliminated a lot of the manual work of collecting, sorting, and packaging drawings

r/SolidWorks on Reddit

A lotta repetitive tasks inside cad when we iterate plans can be solved through some software tweaks or add ons

r/architecture on Reddit

A model can look complete on screen and still miss the design intent.

r/SolidWorks on Reddit

Every task that looks like a 30-second operation somehow turns into a 45-minute debugging session.

r/Fusion360 on Reddit

companies take weeks to answer... when they do get back to me, the information is just outright not what I asked for

r/MechanicalEngineering on Reddit

I just want to avoid things like this is the future because we thought we were dang near done.

r/electricians on Reddit

the drawing is incorrect, both in where you're meant to measure from and the tolerance of said feature, neither of which was communicated or checked

r/Machinists on Reddit

I've just been burned too many times. Wrong scale listed, drawings resized, something copied over wrong, whatever.

r/estimators on Reddit

I ask coworkers for a peer review with time to allow it, they disregard my request and the proposal gets sent out as-is.

r/CommercialAV on Reddit

a project we thought was going to involve thousands of man-hours of very expensive, senior draftsperson labor to backport a feature into decades of CAD files

Hacker News

there must be an ai tool that takes the tedium out of making these drawings

Hacker News

Engineers and drafters

Where they talk

  • r/Machinists
  • r/SolidWorks
  • r/MechanicalEngineering
  • r/estimators
  • r/MEPEngineering
  • r/civilengineering
  • r/Autodesk_AutoCAD
  • r/AutodeskInventor

Tools they use today

  • SolidWorks
  • AutoCAD
  • Excel
  • Civil 3D
  • Inventor
  • Bluebeam
  • Claude
  • Revit

Why those fall short

  • Vague errors like 'Profile is invalid' with no location or reason
  • vendor contact forms and info@ inboxes go unanswered or misrouted
  • drawings lack dimensions and tolerances; model is treated as master data
  • scaling prints does not help when dimensions are missing
  • no revision control, no formal QC, drawings not updated