Solution

Custom tools built by an engineer, for engineers

Your engineering team wastes hours on tasks that should take seconds. We build Inventor, AutoCAD, and Vault add-ins that automate the repetitive work — with 15 years of experience doing exactly that.

Off-the-shelf software doesn't fit every workflow

Autodesk gives you a powerful platform. But every engineering team has processes that don't quite fit — the drawing automation that doesn't exist, the BOM export that's almost right but not quite, the standards check that relies on someone remembering to do it.

What you need is a developer who is also an engineer. Someone who's spent 15 years inside Inventor and AutoCAD, understands manufacturing workflows from the shop floor up, and can turn your "I wish it could..." into working code.

Nikita's first project — a VBA macro for Grundfos Pumps to automate Mechanical Desktop conversion. No tool existed. So he built one. We haven't stopped since.

What we build

Inventor add-ins

Custom ribbon tabs, automated modelling tasks, standards enforcement, export workflows, and integration with your business systems.

AutoCAD plugins

Drawing automation, batch processing, block management, attribute extraction, and custom commands tailored to your drafting workflows.

iLogic & rules automation

Design rules that drive configurations, automate parameter changes, control assembly structures, and generate drawings — without your designers writing code.

Drawing & document automation

Title block population, BOM extraction, PDF and DXF export, revision management, drawing package creation. Hours of manual work, one click.

Vault workflow customisation

Custom lifecycles, automated notifications, approval routing, file naming rules, data validation. Making Vault work the way your business works.

ERP & system integration

Connecting Inventor and Vault with your ERP, MRP, or production systems. Push BOMs, sync lifecycle states, eliminate double-entry.

A real example

At TNA, the team creating user manuals had to open every production drawing, strip out engineering symbols, adjust the graphics, save as PNG, and file it. Every release. Every drawing.

We added one automation to their existing release process. When a design is released, the system automatically creates the cleaned-up illustrations, attaches them to the source drawings, and discards the temporary changes.

Now the illustrations are just there. Ready to download. Nobody touches them anymore.

Typical investment

ScopeInvestmentTimeline
Small tool or script$3,000 – $7,0001–2 weeks
Custom add-in with UI$7,000 – $15,0002–4 weeks
Multi-feature tool or integration$15,000 – $30,0004–8 weeks
Full product platform$30,000 – $50,000+8–16 weeks

Includes specification, development, testing, deployment, training, and 30 days of support.

Got a workflow that needs fixing?

Tell us what your team does, where the time goes, and what you wish the software could do. We'll tell you whether it's a quick script, a proper add-in, or something else entirely.

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Engineering & business automation for Australian manufacturers. Based in NSW, Australia. Delivered nationally and internationally.

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