Coming soonDescribe a steel part. Get a model, a drawing, and an NC1.
AI CAD for steel fabrication. The flagship of the Indolent Fab Suite.
Indolent CAD turns a plain-language description of a steel part into a parametric model, a shop-ready detail drawing, and a machine-ready NC1/DSTV file — on one job spine shared with Forge Nest. Early access is coming.
What it is
A desktop CAD tool built for the way steel shops actually work — from a plain-language part to a machine file, with nothing lost in between.
Plain-language part intake
Describe a beam, a connection, a gusset, a base plate — in words. CAD turns the description into real steel geometry.
Parametric steel model
Not a flat sketch — an editable, dimension-driven 3D model. Change a length or a hole gauge and the part updates.
Shop-ready drawings
Dimensioned, annotated, fabrication-ready detail drawings generated from the model, formatted the way a shop expects to read them.
NC1 / DSTV export
Machine-ready output straight to the shop floor — holes, copes, bevels, and cuts in the format your equipment already runs.
One Fab Suite spine
Shares a job number and piece marks with Indolent Forge Nesting, so modeling, detailing, and nesting live on one job.
Local-first desktop app
A real Windows and macOS desktop app (Tauri). Your models stay on your machine.
How it works
Five beats from a sentence to a cut part.
- 01
Describe
Tell CAD the part you need in plain language.
- 02
Model
CAD builds an editable parametric steel model.
- 03
Draw
Generate a dimensioned, shop-ready detail drawing.
- 04
Export
Write an NC1/DSTV file for the machine.
- 05
Cut
Send it to the floor — one job spine, end to end.
Want in on early access?
Indolent CAD is in active development. Tell us what you fabricate and we'll bring you in as we open the waitlist.