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AI Authoring + CAD Illustration Pipeline

Proof of concept

From raw engineering data to a finished procedure, automatically.

An enterprise manufacturer

Problem: Authoring and illustrating technical procedures is manual and repeats every revision.

An end-to-end pipeline for an enterprise manufacturer. Claude streams complete first-draft technical procedures from real engineering data (bills of materials, change notices), while a companion pipeline drives 3D tooling to auto-generate exploded-view illustrations and animated walkthroughs from raw CAD, including automatic revision-delta detection. Validated against real, large production assemblies with zero code changes between them.

50–80% authoring time saved1 pipeline 2 → 500+ part assemblies

Stack

Claude (streaming)Next.jsTypeScriptMCP ServerCAD (STEP/AP242)AWS Amplify + Lambda