# AI Authoring + CAD Illustration Pipeline

> From raw engineering data to a finished procedure, automatically.

**Status:** Proof of concept  
**Client:** An enterprise manufacturer (details confidential)

## Problem

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

## What it does

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.

## Measured results

- **50–80%** authoring time saved
- **1 pipeline** 2 → 500+ part assemblies — Same code from a 2-part demo to a 500+ part production assembly.

## Stack

Claude (streaming), Next.js, TypeScript, MCP Server, CAD (STEP/AP242), AWS Amplify + Lambda

## Topics

AI, LLM, Agents, Architecture

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Part of the proof-of-work portfolio of Michael Wahl — VP, Software Engineering & AI Enablement.

- Canonical project page: https://connect.michaelwahl.org/project/ai-authoring-cad-pipeline
- Full professional profile: https://connect.michaelwahl.org/
- Machine-readable context: https://connect.michaelwahl.org/llms.txt