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AI and automation for CAD and engineering workflows, from reading drawings to driving the model view.

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Every drawing has a title block. Let AI read it.

Building permit files and project archives are full of drawings from dozens of suppliers, each with its own title block. The drawing number, revision and date sit there as an image, not as text, so your search system can't find them and someone types them over by hand.

An engineering drawing on the left, the fields from its title block as a table on the right

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2026

Titleblock Reader

Finds the title block on an engineering drawing, PDF or DWG, and reads its fields with a vision model that can run fully local.

An engineering drawing next to the fields Titleblock Reader extracted from its title block
Built withPythonvision LLMsOpenAI-compatible APIsFastAPIReactTypeScriptTailwindpdfplumber
2026

Rotatrix for Revit

A Revit add-in that lets the Rotatrix navigation device drive the Revit camera, from Revit 2023 through 2026 in one bundle.

Video of Rotatrix for Revit
Built withC#.NET 8.NET Framework 4.8Revit APIOpenAxis SDKPowerShell
2026

Conversational Workflow Platform

Fill out structured records like meeting reports or reminders by just talking, while the engine tracks what is known and asks only about what is missing.

The Workflow Assistant filling out a meeting report from a conversation, with the record taking shape beside the chat
Built withPythonClaude APIPydanticYAMLpytest
Dries Ketels

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Dries Ketels, independent developer building AI and automation for CAD and engineering workflows.