DraftAid

DraftAid is a startup emerging from the Y Combinator W2024 batch, with its headquarters in Toronto. It was conceived by engineers and designers who had spent years manually producing manufacturing drawings. They built DraftAid to liberate engineers from repetitive drafting tasks.

DraftAid offers an AI-powered automation platform that converts 3D CAD models into 2D production drawings. It works behind the scenes—batch-generating views with heavy automation of annotations, dimensions, layouts, and template adherence, all tailored to a firm’s standards. Engineers drag a 3D model into the tool, and DraftAid generates hundreds of drawings—including views, cuts, details—in DWG, DXF, PDF, or ID). It shapes layouts, applies templates, and injects callouts, all within existing CAD workflows such as Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, CATIA etc. The platform uses machine learning to interpret geometry, apply intelligent dimensioning, auto-annotate, and enforce drawing templates.