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Aircad

Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser

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Aircad is a professional CAD system running in the browser with deep AI integration. It includes professional grade drafting and documentation tools, NURBS-based solid modeling, and a lot more. You can make professional quality design documents with it. It is all integrated behind a scripting API that can do anything you can do in the interface and also perform complex modeling operations efficiently. It reads and writes file formats like DXF, DWG, STEP, and 3DM.I built Aircad because I was frustrated with what was out there. Current CAD tools are expensive and slow to improve. New features barely move the needle. With Aircad, you have fast, powerful geometry tools for just about anything, from conceptual models to your final design.The newer generation of web-based CAD isn’t comprehensive enough to complete a project or is slower than existing desktop products because it sends performance-sensitive work to a server (OnShape), or isn’t designed to scale to real work in a collaborative setting (many "toy" CAD tools).Current CAD collaboration workflows are fragile, costly, and complex. They’re file-based and separate the design artifacts (eg PDFs) from the source. Collaboration is often an expensive add-on that raises your subscription, is hard to learn, and feels unnatural. Aircad builds it in: version history, drawing comparison, forking, and realtime collaboration.AI in most CAD tools is tacked on as a plug-in instead of being deeply integrated, and those plug-ins are often inefficient, hard to adopt, and costly. Aircad has a built-in AI agent and a comprehensive scripting API with a stage-and-commit workflow, so you know exactly what is happening during a complex change. You can use AI to write new scripts and commands that extend Aircad with repeatable, shareable workflows.

HN · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 95 upvotes (top 12%) · 0 views

Niche: computer-aided design software · 169 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Vertical SaaS
  • B2B
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

No A browser CAD system with NURBS solid modeling, DWG compatibility, multiplayer editing, and an embedded AI agent needs a geometry kernel and proprietary file-format support, which are years of specialized engineering.

What it would actually take: Real parity requires a robust NURBS/B-rep geometry kernel with booleans, fillets, and lofts, plus DWG read/write and a CAD command set. It also needs real-time CRDT-based multiplayer and a scripting API. Building it requires CAD-kernel engineers, file-format specialists, and significant infrastructure.

Discussion

9 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: AutoCAD

Concerns raised: Small company and single-developer bus factor, Liability for professional drawings, $19/month price seems too low to be viable

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 288 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #38 of 289 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 377 days after the earliest competitor.

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