Draft AI (Rishi24-alt)
AI platform for engineering drawings that detects dimensions, reviews GD&T per ASME Y14.5, checks standards, scores manufacturability, extracts BOMs and estimates cost, with a SolidWorks add-in for live sketch analysis.
What it does and how it connects
Draft AI is a full stack AI platform built for mechanical engineers. Upload any engineering drawing, or open any sketch in SolidWorks, and get an instant, intelligent analysis. The README lists what the analysis covers: dimensions detected, GD&T reviewed, standards checked, cost estimated, manufacturability scored, missing dimensions flagged, and BOM extracted, producing an actionable report.
The platform has two main parts. A Streamlit powered web application where engineers upload drawings and get full AI analysis from any browser with no installation, at draftaii.streamlit.app. And a native Windows SolidWorks add-in that lives inside SolidWorks for live sketch analysis, distributed as a separate DraftAI-Addin repository.
The README badges name Python 3.10 plus, Streamlit 1.x, GPT-4o Vision, and the SolidWorks add-in. The last push recorded for this repository is April 2026, so the repository itself looks quiet even though the hosted app and website remain linked from it.
Alternatives
Compare side by side- NexCAD AI Checker
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A local first experimental engineering control plane, rather than an AI platform for engineering drawings.
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- CAM Assist by CloudNC
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Recurring errors it addresses
Error Index entries this tool is built to reduce or work around.
- Saving an assembly can trigger rebuilds that break mates and randomly alter mate dimensions.Error Index
- Large assemblies can lock up on open with the feature tree failing to populate.Error Index
- Even simple save/check-in operations can take minutes on capable hardware.Error Index
- A SolidWorks MCP bridge returned success JSON and even a normal-looking PDF export while the live document was wrong: a sketch asked for the Right plane silently landed on Front, and a macro call reported success=False with zero errors while never running. Only visual inspection inside SolidWorks itself revealed it.Error Index
Sources
Not verified
- License: the GitHub API returns no license and no license is stated in the README read, so no license is stated.
- Pricing: none stated on the repo or website as read.
- No GitHub releases exist, so latest release fields are null.
- No independent user voice found: the repo has no public issues listed via the API.
- Activity: last push April 2026, so the repository looks quiet.
Last verified November 6, 2026. Listings are informational. The evidence score measures public, verifiable evidence and is not an endorsement or a compatibility claim.