What does the Design Engineer cost to use?

Configuring is never metered: move the numbers all day for nothing. An export uses one of your plan's monthly exports and a little of your usage, and AI-driven design draws on the same monthly usage. Saved designs and monthly exports are capped per plan and the caps enforce softly.

How does AI-driven design work?

You paste or forward the enquiry as the customer wrote it. A line the platform reads as work to be made is routed to the design module that fits it and comes back configured, priced and drawn inside the answer, with no mode to choose first. Any line can also be opened in the workbench by hand, from the Design this line button on the line itself. Each AI-configured result draws on your monthly usage; reviewing and editing it by hand does not.

Does the AI guess when something is missing?

No. It answers from the tables and datasheets loaded into the category, cites the row it used and abstains where no loaded source covers the question. A chuck that is not in the compatibility table gets a request to add it, not an invented mounting spec.

Are the exports really production-ready?

Graded honestly. The gasket DXF is verified to 0.01mm in two independent CAD parsers. STL and GLB downloads are verified with the configuration recorded in the file. STEP export is generated and structurally valid and stays in verification until it is confirmed dimension-perfect in independent CAD software.

Can we get a category for our own product line?

Yes. Any plan can request a custom category. We scope it with you and build it for a one-time setup fee, POA, then it works like any launch category with live 3D, rules, pricing, exports and AI-driven design.

Is the pricing in the launch categories real?

The presets ship with clearly labelled example pricing so you can try them immediately. You load your own rates, formulas and stock before going live, so your customers only ever see your real prices.

Design Engineer

Custom products, designed and priced like an engineer.

Kabaido's AI CAD module for custom product sales: real parameter schemas, live 3D, rules that protect you and prices that explain themselves. Drive it by hand or let the AI configure from the written enquiry.

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Preparing the live part

How it works

One runtime, six moves

Every design category is a full configurator on the same engine, from typed parameters to a dispatched order.

Parameters

Typed inputs with units, limits and live checks. The schema is the product: every field knows what it accepts.

Live 3D

The part rebuilds in the viewport as values change, computed in your browser as you type.

Rules and price

Engineering rules block impossible states in plain language while your pricing formulas build the price line by line.

Cited AI

Ask in plain words. The AI answers from the tables and datasheets you load, cites the row it used and abstains rather than guessing.

Exports

A specification and quote PDF, STL and GLB files and a cut-ready DXF where the product calls for one.

Dispatch

The configured order leaves by signed webhook, CSV or email into the ERP or CRM you already run.

Launch categories

Six categories, live today

Balustrades and handrails, soft jaws, gaskets, plastics cut to size, PCD saw blades and PCD profile cutters ship on every plan, ready with example data until you load your own.

Live configuratorArchitectural and structural metalwork

Balustrade and Handrail Configurator

Level runs, stairs, Juliets and wall rails in eight system families, with the cutting list, the glass panel schedule and a price today rather than a site visit next week.

Architectural metalwork fabricators.

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Live configuratorWorkholding and production tooling

Soft Jaws Configurator

Configure the exact jaws for a chuck and workpiece, see a live price and export the files without an email thread.

Workholding suppliers, toolmakers and machine tool accessory dealers who make or machine soft jaws to order.

Open the configurator Read the category

Live configuratorSeals, gaskets and rubber

Gasket Configurator

Pick a flange standard or set the size, choose a material and get a price and a cut-ready DXF instantly.

Gasket cutters and manufacturers.

Open the configurator Read the category

Live configuratorMachined plastics

Cut-to-Size Plastics Configurator

Sheet, rod or tube cut to exact size in the right grade, priced as you type.

Plastic stockholders and plastics machining firms.

Open the configurator Read the category

Live configuratorDiamond tipped tooling

PCD Saw Blade Configurator

Diamond tipped circular blades for panel saws and beam saws: teeth, angles, bore and slots specified in full, with the tip blanks, the disc yield and the body blank priced as you type.

Saw blade manufacturers and diamond tooling makers who build and retip PCD circular blades to order.

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Live configuratorDiamond tipped tooling

PCD Profile Cutter Configurator

Profile and jointing cutters on machined steel bodies: the knife form as a preset, a drawing or a DXF, with the eroded edge, the disc yield and the body billet priced as you type.

Diamond tooling makers and cutter grinders who build and retip PCD profile and jointing cutters on machined steel bodies.

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Try it

Change the part, watch the price move

This is the real configurator engine, not a video. Pick a flange size, a material and a thickness and the cut profile and the quote move together, the same maths the platform runs when your customer configures a product on your own site.

Every price carries its own working, so nothing is invented. Change the quantity and the volume breaks apply, exactly as they would on a live quote.

Gasket configuratorExample pricing

The paperwork

Every configuration produces its own paperwork

A configured product is more than a shape on a screen. Each run produces a specification and quote sheet with a dimensioned drawing, the detail the works needs to make it and the files your customer or your factory takes forward: PDF, STL, GLB and a cut-ready DXF where the product calls for one.

The claims are graded. The gasket DXF is verified to 0.01mm in two independent CAD parsers; STEP export stays in verification until it is confirmed dimension-perfect in independent CAD software.

Dispatch

The order lands where you work

A finished configuration does not sit in another silo. It dispatches by signed webhook, CSV download or email into the ERP or CRM you already run, structured, priced and cited.

Saved designed products also join the Sales Engineer’s matching order, so a custom part you designed once can answer the next enquiry that fits it.

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Configured item

Structured, priced, cited

Signed webhookLive today
CSV downloadLive today
Email to your inboxLive today

Your system of record

The ERP or CRM you already run

AI-driven design

Let the AI configure it from the written enquiry

A request line the platform reads as work to be made is routed to the design module that fits it, configured the way a design engineer would set it, then priced and drawn inside the answer. There is no mode to pick first.

Each AI-configured result draws on your monthly usage. Configuring by hand is never metered, so your team can refine an AI-configured part all day at no cost. Taking a file out uses one of your plan's monthly exports and a little usage.

What a month of usage covers

Parameters

Run: straight
Run length: 3200 mm
Guarding height: 1100 mm
Use class: dwelling-external
Children under five may use the building: true
Finished floor level is final: false

AI configurationCite or abstain

External balustrade for a school ramp, 6.2m, glass infill

Sets the use class and minimum height from the configured rule table and selects compatible glass components from stock, stating that structural sign-off remains with the seller's engineer.

Source: Height rule table row and stock fields (example data)

What fixings do I need into my substrate?

The seller's tables do not cover fixings into unknown substrates, so I cannot specify them. That needs the seller's engineer.

Every answer cites a loaded source or abstains. Enforced in code, not in a prompt.

Price breakdownExample pricing

Steel, sections and plate: £169.15
Fixings and hardware: £46.40
Workshop fabrication: £143.64
Galvanising: £34.55
Delivery: £85.80
Drawings and setting out: £40.00

Total£519.54

The preset's default balustrade run. Sellers load their own rates and formulas.

Custom categories

A category built for what you make

The six launch categories are a starting set, not a boundary.

Any plan can request a new design category. Tell us the product line, the parameters that vary, the rules you check and how you price it. We scope it with you and build it for a one-time setup fee, POA. From then on it works like any launch category: live 3D, engineering rules, your pricing, exports and AI-driven design.

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Plans

What each plan carries

All figures are modelled and will be revisited against measured usage. Caps enforce softly: at the cap the action explains the limit and offers the upgrade, nothing is deleted.

Design Engineer usage by plan tier. All figures are modelled.
Usage	Free	Pro	Ultra	Max
Design categories available	All	All	All	All
Saved designed products	5	250	2,500	25,000
Drawing and file exports a month	10	250	1,000	Fair use
AI-driven design	Via monthly usage	Via monthly usage	Via monthly usage	Via monthly usage

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Questions

About the Design Engineer

: Configuring is never metered: move the numbers all day for nothing. An export uses one of your plan's monthly exports and a little of your usage, and AI-driven design draws on the same monthly usage. Saved designs and monthly exports are capped per plan and the caps enforce softly.
: You paste or forward the enquiry as the customer wrote it. A line the platform reads as work to be made is routed to the design module that fits it and comes back configured, priced and drawn inside the answer, with no mode to choose first. Any line can also be opened in the workbench by hand, from the Design this line button on the line itself. Each AI-configured result draws on your monthly usage; reviewing and editing it by hand does not.
: No. It answers from the tables and datasheets loaded into the category, cites the row it used and abstains where no loaded source covers the question. A chuck that is not in the compatibility table gets a request to add it, not an invented mounting spec.
: Graded honestly. The gasket DXF is verified to 0.01mm in two independent CAD parsers. STL and GLB downloads are verified with the configuration recorded in the file. STEP export is generated and structurally valid and stays in verification until it is confirmed dimension-perfect in independent CAD software.
: Yes. Any plan can request a custom category. We scope it with you and build it for a one-time setup fee, POA, then it works like any launch category with live 3D, rules, pricing, exports and AI-driven design.
: The presets ship with clearly labelled example pricing so you can try them immediately. You load your own rates, formulas and stock before going live, so your customers only ever see your real prices.

The platform

The other four modules

The Design Engineer shares one account, one monthly usage allowance and one intelligence layer with the rest of Kabaido.

Sales Engineer: Technical enquiries answered, quoted and ordered, in the app or natively in your inbox. Your saved designed products join its matching order. Explore the Sales Engineer
Commerce: A fully managed website, online store and trade portal for your range. Quoted per project, typically £6,500 to £12,500, then it runs on your ordinary plan. Explore Commerce
Machinist: Custom machine interfaces on a screen at the machine: plasma, wire EDM and CNC milling, with a designed product able to raise its own production order. Explore Machinist
Inspect: Industrial customer intelligence: every manufacturer on the patch profiled, with the three offers to lead with. Explore Inspect

Put your custom products on the same platform as your quotes

Start free, open a launch category and configure a real part. Example pricing is clearly labelled until you load your own.

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