One model. Every answer.

Bring your own DXF, describe the part and let AI draw it, start from a common shape, or photograph a part on the shop floor. Every route ends in the same editor, and every drawing in it can be converted to a folded 3D model without leaving the part editor.

Draw bend lines where the part folds and each one carries its own angle, direction and inner radius. The fold is calculated from the sheet: the part's material and thickness, its K-factor or an explicit bend deduction per bend. Convert, and the blank is folded along those lines into a solid you can inspect. A part with no bend lines is extruded to its sheet thickness with the holes cut through, which is all a flat laser part needs.

A bend line that does not fully cross the part turns red and blocks the conversion, an angle outside 10° to 170° is rejected, and crossing folds are refused with the reason. You find out in the editor, in seconds, rather than on the press brake.

Pick the characteristic, the tolerance zone and its form, the datums with their modifiers, a composite frame's lower segments, and whether it applies to one face, a pattern of features, the whole part or every instance of it. Mark what matters most with a criticality level and the designator your customer's inspection report is read against. Set the drawing standard once per part, ISO 1101 or ASME Y14.5 with its general tolerance class, and every frame is checked against that standard's rules as you type. A form tolerance cannot reference a datum, and the panel says so in words instead of letting a bad callout reach the file.

Point it at a spreadsheet, a QIF file or the drawing PDF and each requirement becomes a row to accept, re-place, edit or reject. The review runs in rounds, one decision covering every instance of a part, with an append-only, hash-linked record of who decided what and when. That is the evidence an audit asks for, produced as a by-product of the work.

Saving writes a new version of the model and reports, requirement by requirement, what happened: written as semantic PMI, drawn as a callout, or refused with the reason. You stay on the version you were reading until you choose to move. Out come an enriched STEP model, a QIF inspection program for PC-DMIS, Calypso or Verisurf, a ballooned drawing and an inspection report: one requirement set in the four forms the supply chain asks for.

Each toolset has its own server address and is added as its own connector. Core covers projects, quotes, production and nesting. STEP and MBD covers reviews, comments, PMI, inspection documents, DXF to STEP and PDF to STEP. Assemblies and documents covers assembly pricing, quantity breaks, routes, route cards and ERP export. Setup covers machines, materials and customers. An assistant picks tools more reliably from a short list, so add only what you need.

A token works with every toolset and expires after 30, 90 or 365 days, or never. Signing in connects one toolset at a time and ends when you press Disconnect in CUTL or after 30 days without use. Either way the assistant acts as you: it can read and change exactly what your role allows, no more, and you revoke it in Settings, Integrations.

Set the assistant coin limits on the Integrations tab so an assistant cannot run down your balance. What it creates are ordinary projects, parts, quotes and production tasks that your team sees and can change in the web app, so nothing lives only in a chat.