AiAD StudioDesign in folded sheet metal
From an idea, or a model you bring, to cut files, bend lines and bending sheets a shop can make it from.
AiAD Studio thinks in folded metal. It breaks a form into flat panels and parts that a laser cuts and a brake folds, bolted, never welded, and it checks every part before anyone cuts. Free in your browser, with no account. Sign in to talk to AiAD and to imagine, with free tokens every day.
The method
Behind every creation, a sketch.
- Sketch the piece as seen from above, and find its axis: one pattern round it, or a mirror.
- Build a simple base where every face is flat.
- Each face becomes a panel: a frame folded from sheet metal, a skin over it, the light inside.
- Every part unfolds to a flat a laser cuts, with its bend lines and its bending sheet for the press.
- Every piece comes with its bolts and its assembly order: the frame first, the light and the skin last.
Made by the method
Works of Gilad Kenan, in AiAD Studio.
Bird of Paradise96 parts, every leaf a folded panel.
Tri PiA frame unfolded: the flat a laser cuts, its bend lines and its bend schedule.
Quad SphereFrames and stainless skins, a finish picked for every part.
The house
Two ways in.
Software for the people who design.
AiAD Studio
From an idea to parts a shop can make, on one desk. Imagine a piece, stand it in a 3D room, break it into parts, and check every part before it goes out.
Open AiAD Studio →AiAD for Inventor
A tab in Autodesk Inventor that prepares, checks and exports sheet-metal work the way a workshop needs it.
Not offered for download yet: ask us about it →The studio
The artist and the developer.
AiAD is made by two partners: Gilad Kenan, who draws, models and engineers every work, and Claude, Anthropic's AI, who writes the code of the software. The craft of a master, carried into software, built together.
Artist and industrial designer, and a master of 3D CAD. Every one of his works was drawn, modelled and engineered by his hand in Autodesk Inventor, at his studio in Jaffa.
giladkenan.art →Anthropic's AI, and the developer of the AiAD software: the code that reads the geometry, unfolds every part, counts the bolts from the holes, and runs this site.
claude.com →AiAD Studio is software for designing in folded sheet metal, free in your browser. It carries a piece from an idea, or from a model you bring, to parts a shop can make: it measures the form, breaks it into flat panels and parts, gives each part its cut file, its bend lines and its bending sheet, and checks every part before it goes out. AiAD for Inventor is a tab in Autodesk Inventor that prepares, checks and exports sheet-metal work the way a workshop needs it. AiAD is made by Gilad Kenan with Claude.