Slingshot Digital
CAD Engine

Describe the part.
Get a file an engineer can open.

This is a real output, published exactly as it came out of the engine. One worked example: the plain English line below became a 3D solid, exported as STEP, and measured by a verification script whose report ships alongside. Download the file and check the dimensions yourself. Then edit the sentence further down and watch the sheet redraw to your part.

0 mmPlate length, exact
0M12 clearance holes
0/6Geometry checks passed
0Files out the door
Generated partBase plate 200 x 120 x 10
Isometric render of the generated steel base plate showing the four corner holes.
Live STL in your browser, the same solid as the STEP download
The exact input and output

One sentence became a checked STEP file

No CAD seat, no back and forth. The sentence is the whole brief. The engine reads it into parameters, builds the solid, and a verification script measures the published files against the spec. Edit the sentence below and the sheet and the checks redraw from your words.

Dimensioned to the measured solid

The dimensioned top view

Every figure on this sheet is a measured value from the verification report: the 200 x 120 outline, the 13.5 mm holes and the 20 mm offsets all match the published STEP to 0.01 mm.

TOP VIEWTHK 10MILD STEELALL DIMS mm
20012020204 x Ø13.5THK 10 / MILD STEEL / ALL DIMS mm
Plain English spec

Describe the part, then run the checks

Verified job. This sentence produced the files on this page
Read into parameters
Plate200 x 120 x 10 mm
MaterialMild steel
Holes4 x M12 clearance, 13.5 mm
Edge offset20 mm from each corner
OriginCentred on origin, all dims mm

The script that built the published part is one of the downloads below. Change a number in it and rerun, the model rebuilds and re-exports. The spec is the source of truth, not a static drawing.

Checked before it shipped
0/6 passed

Measured checks on the published files

Solid valid, one closed bodywatertight mesh, 1 shell in STEP
Bounding box 200 x 120 x 10 mmmeasured 200.000 x 120.000 x 10.000
Hole count 4, all through4 found in mesh, 4 cylinders in STEP
Hole diameter 13.5 mm, M12 clearancemeasured 13.500 mm on all four
Centres 20 mm in from each cornermeasured to 0.01 mm on all four
Volume matches the spec'd solid234277 vs 234274 mm3 computed

These are the results of a script run against the exact files on this page, with measured figures, file hashes and a timestamp. Read the full report, or rerun the checker yourself, it ships with the part. Where the words leave something open, that is a question for an engineer, not a guess.

Under the bonnet

How it works, in three moves

Nothing here is a black box. It is the route a draughtsman takes, done in seconds and repeatable.

01 / SPEC

Say the part in plain words

Sizes, holes, spacing, material. The way you would describe it to a fabricator over the phone.

02 / MODEL

It builds a real solid

The spec drives a parametric model with true geometry and a bounding box, not a picture. Every dimension is exact.

03 / EXPORT

Out comes STEP and STL

STEP for your CAD and your fabricator, STL for print or preview. Feed it straight into the shop.

Why this, and where it stops

Built by a working civil engineering technician. Someone who sits with the drawings, the setting out and the tolerances that go wrong when a number gets typed twice. So this is not a party trick. It is the boring, repeatable part of drafting done faster.

A steel base plate is the simplest case on purpose. The point is the route: a plain sentence in, a checkable STEP file out, in seconds. Brackets, cleats, cover plates, drilled flats, standard connections. The parts a technical team redraws every week are the parts worth automating first.

The engineer stays in charge

The engine does the first pass and shows its working, the parameters it read and the checks it ran. A qualified engineer reviews, adjusts and signs. The verification report on this page carries the prompt, the parameters, the measured figures, the file hashes and a timestamp, so the trail is there in writing. The files carry geometry only: material, tolerances and finish are declared in the report and confirmed at sign off, the way any drawing office would.

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