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Mechanical engineers spend hours on repetitive drawing checks. Costly mistakes sometimes still reach production. ClearHandoff's AI drawing review is your second pair of eyes. A professional checker that's always on, never tired, never overloaded. It flags missing dimensions, tolerances, and manufacturing issues -- plus any rules you specify, like DFM constraints for your machines or your design guidelines. Pin comments, discuss in threads, share with suppliers. Faster reviews, fewer errors.
A bit of personal backstory: As a grad mechanical engineering student I taught an intro class on technical drawing for a couple of years. And I'm programming since I'm 13. ClearHandoff is the project where those two sides of me meet. Exciting!
A few months ago I started feeding engineering drawings to the new frontier models, simply out of curiosity. What I figured pretty quickly: the models have extremely wide engineering knowledge (expected) and they became pretty good on reasoning about geometry (more unexpected to me). Not perfect, but good enough to be a useful second pair of eyes. After a caved in weekend of vibecoding and playing around, I figured I want to see whether I can build a product around making use of this new capability. The next four weeks I slept way too little and prototyped an MVP of ClearHandoff into existence.
What we are building is not a thin "AI for drawings" wrapper. It is software tailored to how mechanical engineers actually work -- structured review and approval workflows, pinned comments on the exact spot of every issue, supplier sharing via link, custom rules for your specific machines, materials, and ways of designing. Even without AI, it's a massive upgrade over the "email PDF drawings back and forth" workflow many companies still rely on. Proper version management, on-drawing collaboration, a modern REST-API to integrate into your existing PDM/PLM and ticketing tools.
Since then, I'm in the loop of iterating on the product and talking to our users. My co-founder Filip is on our other product (SankeyArt), so I'm running ClearHandoff mainly solo for now. Big product ideas are in the pipeline. And the frontier AI models get better every month, our harness around them too.
If you are a hardware engineer: Are you already using the frontier models on drawings? Sometimes throwing them into ChatGPT or Claude or anything more serious? Would love to hear. And any feedback you have on ClearHandoff itself!
Congrats on the launch! Can I also provide some textual context and guidelines when uploading a drawing?
About ClearHandoff on Product Hunt
“AI drawing review for mechanical engineers”
ClearHandoff was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #112 on the daily leaderboard. Mechanical engineers spend hours on repetitive drawing checks. Costly mistakes sometimes still reach production. ClearHandoff's AI drawing review is your second pair of eyes. A professional checker that's always on, never tired, never overloaded. It flags missing dimensions, tolerances, and manufacturing issues -- plus any rules you specify, like DFM constraints for your machines or your design guidelines. Pin comments, discuss in threads, share with suppliers. Faster reviews, fewer errors.
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Who hunted ClearHandoff?
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Andreas Haselsteiner
A bit of personal backstory: As a grad mechanical engineering student I taught an intro class on technical drawing for a couple of years. And I'm programming since I'm 13. ClearHandoff is the project where those two sides of me meet. Exciting!
A few months ago I started feeding engineering drawings to the new frontier models, simply out of curiosity. What I figured pretty quickly: the models have extremely wide engineering knowledge (expected) and they became pretty good on reasoning about geometry (more unexpected to me). Not perfect, but good enough to be a useful second pair of eyes. After a caved in weekend of vibecoding and playing around, I figured I want to see whether I can build a product around making use of this new capability. The next four weeks I slept way too little and prototyped an MVP of ClearHandoff into existence.
What we are building is not a thin "AI for drawings" wrapper. It is software tailored to how mechanical engineers actually work -- structured review and approval workflows, pinned comments on the exact spot of every issue, supplier sharing via link, custom rules for your specific machines, materials, and ways of designing. Even without AI, it's a massive upgrade over the "email PDF drawings back and forth" workflow many companies still rely on. Proper version management, on-drawing collaboration, a modern REST-API to integrate into your existing PDM/PLM and ticketing tools.
Since then, I'm in the loop of iterating on the product and talking to our users. My co-founder Filip is on our other product (SankeyArt), so I'm running ClearHandoff mainly solo for now. Big product ideas are in the pipeline. And the frontier AI models get better every month, our harness around them too.
If you are a hardware engineer: Are you already using the frontier models on drawings? Sometimes throwing them into ChatGPT or Claude or anything more serious? Would love to hear. And any feedback you have on ClearHandoff itself!