Describe it. Photograph it. Machine it.
HelioCad is AI-powered CAD, CAM and electronics in your browser. Describe a part — or snap photos of one — and the AI models it, measures its own work, programs your machine, and simulates the whole job before you ever press cycle start. Now it designs the board inside the box, too.
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Phone Scan
Photos → parametric model
Electronics
Schematic → PCB → case, one project
AI CAM
2.5D–5-axis toolpaths + G-code
Laser Control
Ruida + GRBL over USB, live
The part in your hand, in CAD in minutes
Open HelioCad on your phone. A guided capture walks you around the part shot by shot, the AI rebuilds it as a clean parametric model — not a mesh — and one caliper measurement locks in true scale. Then check it against reality: view any model in AR, right on your bench.
- Guided multi-photo capture
- AI rebuild with caliper-seeded dimensions
- AR viewing + installable mobile app
Everything you need to design, analyze, and manufacture
From a text prompt to machine-ready G-code — design, simulate, and manufacture without ever switching tools.
Describe it. Watch it build. Watch it check itself.
Type or speak what you need — or drop in photos, drawings, and caliper measurements. HelioCad's AI writes real parametric CAD, renders it in seconds, then measures its own model and fixes any dimension that's off. It reads spec sheets, pulls dimensions from drawings, and researches real parts on the web when it needs facts.
Draw the circuit, check it, route it
A full schematic editor with multi-sheet designs, plain-language rule checks, symbol and footprint editors, ready-made circuits — and HelioAI that wires a circuit from a sentence.
Edit any step where it sits
Hover a step in the Features lane and its faces light up. Double-click to re-arm the gizmo and change it in place, with a preview of the exact rebuild before you apply.
Studio-lit from the first click
A baked studio rig and scaled ambient occlusion are the default view, and 15 physically based material packs — bead blasted to walnut — drop onto any body.
G-code your machine will love
From 2.5D pockets to 5-axis simultaneous on your own machine's kinematics, with 19 built-in controller posts. Stay-down linking, arc fitting, and chip-thinning-aware feeds cut real cycle time — and AI Orchestrate plans stock, setup, and tooling from one sentence.
Run your laser straight from the browser
Jog, frame, hold-to-fire, and run over USB — GRBL and Ruida DSP alike — with live playback of the head on the bed, an overhead camera or a printable 1:1 placement jig for exact positioning, and Print and Cut for printed sheets.
Drawings that draft themselves
Ask HelioAI for a drawing and it turns your 3D model into an ISO or ANSI sheet — views, dimensions, GD&T, placed to fit — then revises it in conversation. Export DXF or PDF.
Ready to design faster?
Every CAD, CAM, Laser and AI feature in one plan.
Design the board, not just the box
Draw the schematic from a library of about 22,000 parts, let HelioAI wire it from a sentence, check it, autoroute the PCB, simulate the circuit and export Gerbers, drill files and a priced BOM — in the same project as the enclosure. Then drop the board into its case and run a fit check in Model.
- Six steps from circuit to fabrication files: Circuit, Check, Layout, Routing, Check board, Make it
- Autorouter, copper pours, differential pairs, up to eight layers and a 3D board view
- Design review with one-click fixes, datasheet questions with the page cited, FMEA and bring-up reports
- Make a case for the board in Model, check the fit, and update the case when the board changes
What's new in HelioCad
The latest additions to the app — live now, on the plan each one names.
14 workspaces, one browser tab.
Describe it. Tweak it. Make it.
One flow from a sentence — or a photo — to a finished part. The orb builds it step by step, you tweak it or take over by hand, then send it to the machine. No tool-switching, no file round-trips.
01Describe
Type it, say it, or attach a photo or a sketch. One sentence is enough to start.
02The orb builds
HelioAI lands the part one step at a time: real, editable features in the lane, not a frozen mesh.
03Tweak
Click a dimension chip and type a new value, or tap a face and ask the orb right there.
04Take over by hand
Every tool lives in the dock. ⌘K finds anything; right-click opens the radial.
05Make it
Turn the mode dial to Manufacturing: CNC toolpaths, the laser, or a 3D print from the same part.
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Ready to go from prompt to part?
From a sentence — or a photo — to a finished part, all in your browser.
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