techdrawai-cad

techdrawai-cad is a skill for Claude Code from MeltFlexDevs/techdrawai-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that turns drawings, scans, sketches, logos, or photos into CAD files and 3D models. CAD files are precise computer-aided design files used in tools such as AutoCAD, Fusion 360, and FreeCAD.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create DXF or DWG files for CNC, laser, or plasma cutting, import geometry into CAD software, or reconstruct models and STL files.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of tracing an image or rebuilding a physical part before using it in design or manufacturing software.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the techdrawai plugin — 2 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create DXF or DWG files for CNC, laser, or plasma cutting, import geometry into CAD software, or reconstruct models and STL files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltflexdevs/techdrawai-skills/techdrawai-cad
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add MeltFlexDevs/techdrawai-skills --skill techdrawai-cad
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MeltFlexDevs/techdrawai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install techdrawai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 MCP server.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,300 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00110 $0.01300
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00650
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00130

Measured 7d ago against content hash 678ded2c3a5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

techdrawai-cad scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/techdrawai-cad/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TechDraw AI: CAD files, 3D models and renders

Everything downstream of a drawing. If the user needs the drawing itself first, use the techdrawai-drafting skill and come back here with what it wrote.

Setup (once)

npx -y techdrawai-mcp auth login      # browser sign-in, no key to copy

Requires an active Studio plan. If a tool reports a plan error, say so plainly and point at https://techdrawai.com/app?view=subscription rather than retrying. Keys can also be created in Settings and passed as TECHDRAWAI_API_KEY.

Tools

image_to_dxf

Any raster image becomes real CAD vector contours in a DXF file. Free.

  • image (required): a generated drawing, a scan, a sketch, a logo, a photo of a flat part.
  • width_mm: pass this whenever the real size is known. Without it the geometry arrives at one DXF unit per pixel and the user has to rescale by hand in CAD, which is exactly the annoying step they came here to avoid.
  • threshold: "auto" (default) or a number 0 to 255 to force the ink and paper cut-off.
  • invert: for light lines on a dark background.
  • smoothing: 1 keeps detail, higher smooths the contours.
  • dwg: also write AutoCAD's native .dwg beside the .dxf.
  • output_path: defaults to ./techdrawai-output/.

The DXF is ASCII R2000 and opens in AutoCAD, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, Onshape, FreeCAD, LibreCAD, Rhino, Inkscape and the common laser and CNC tools such as LightBurn.

photo_to_3d

A photo of one object becomes a textured 3D mesh. 3 credits, Studio plan. Takes one to three minutes and the call blocks until the mesh is ready, so tell the user it is running rather than leaving them watching a stalled prompt.

  • image (required): a clear JPG or PNG of a single object.
  • detail: draft (12k triangles), standard (40k, default), high (80k).
  • textured: defaults to true. Turn it off when the user only wants geometry.
  • output_path: the GLB lands here; FBX, OBJ, USDZ and STL links are reported too.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 70 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 678ded2c3a5e

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techdrawai-cad is a skill published in the GitHub repository MeltFlexDevs/techdrawai-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,300 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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