Your workflow in → native tooling out
CAD customization & plugins,
taught how your company works.
The macro that broke when you upgraded to 2026. The LISP routine only one drafter knows how to run. The standards checklist taped to a monitor. That's the work we replace — with custom commands, panels, and add-ins built on the official CAD APIs. They sit in the ribbon, apply your standards automatically, and keep working after every upgrade.
Repetitive clicks → One command → Standard output, every seat
The gap
Your CAD platform doesn't know your rules
AutoCAD doesn't know your layer scheme. Inventor doesn't know your naming convention. So your drafters carry that knowledge in their heads and apply it by hand, drawing after drawing — and every new hire learns it by making the mistakes first.
Results
What a native plug-in changes about the workday
It feels native
Your commands live in the ribbon next to Autodesk's own. No separate app, no context switch.
Standards hold
Layers, styles, and names come out right because the tool won't produce them any other way.
Clicks disappear
View creation, annotation, and setup sequences collapse into single commands.
Errors surface early
Validation runs while the drafter works — not in review, and not on the shop floor.
Process
How a tool gets built here
Your CAD tools are software, so we treat them like software — scoped, versioned, tested, documented.
Audit & Scope
We sit with your drafters and count the clicks. Then we pin down the API surface, the CAD versions to support, and what the UI has to do.
Development
Built on the native APIs and SDKs in .NET, C#, or C++ — with real error handling and transactional logic, so a failed run never leaves a drawing half-modified.
Testing & QA
We test on your actual assemblies and drawings, including the ugly legacy ones — and against version upgrades and edge cases before anything ships.
Deployment
Signed .msi installers plus documentation. IT rolls it out to every seat like any other piece of software.
Macros vs plug-ins
A recorded macro is not a plugin
A macro is fine right up until the third person uses it — or the next CAD release ships. Then someone spends a week nursing it back to life. Here's the honest difference.
Platforms
The platforms we go deep on
Everything is built through the official SDKs. Nothing screen-scraped, nothing reverse-engineered.
Who it's for
Who calls us for CAD customization
Four situations we see over and over.
The CAD admin fielding every request
You're the one who hears "can AutoCAD do this?" all day. You want ribbon commands and panels that behave — and don't become your personal maintenance burden every release cycle.
The team retyping data into ERP
Drawing data gets keyed into PDM and ERP by hand, and errors ride along with it. You want CAD talking to those systems directly, from inside the CAD window.
The reviewer drowning in checks
Every drafter's output looks slightly different, and checking drawings eats your senior people's week. You want the standard enforced at creation, not caught at review.
The shop that outgrew store-bought
You've bought the plugins and recorded the macros — and your actual workflow still isn't covered. You need tools shaped to your process, not the average of everyone else's.
Questions, answered
What teams ask before hiring us
Which CAD platforms do you develop plugins for?
Will my plugin survive CAD version upgrades?
Can you take over maintenance of an existing plugin?
Do I own the code you develop?
Client results
What teams measure after rollout
"Nag figured out a difficult API that Autodesk couldn't solve. His plugin survived three version upgrades without a single issue. That's the kind of engineering depth you don't find elsewhere." CAD Manager · Global Manufacturing Company
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Tell us the task your team grumbles about most
That's where the audit starts. We watch how the work flows through CAD today, tell you what an add-in can and can't fix, and put numbers and a timeline on it — useful whether or not you build with us.
- Your highest-friction CAD tasks, identified
- What to build first — and why that order
- Cost and timeline you can take to management
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