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Redlines are a pain to update.
Every revision round means hand-tracing changes across plans, elevations, sections, and details — and missing one is what holds a project up.
Sheet 01 · Pre-launch
Design in.
Shop drawings out.
AI-assisted shop drawing automation for millwork teams. Millwork IO is being built to take architectural drawings and redlines in — and produce BricsCAD-ready shop drawing packages out. Less drafting time. Less revision friction. Fewer manual errors.
See the workflow
● In development · Built by millwork drafters
Architectural drawings in — BricsCAD shop drawings out
MWIO · 2026
Sheet 02 · Why we’re building it
Shop drawings shouldn’t be the bottleneck.
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Manual drafting is prone to human error.
Dimensions, tags, and casework counts get out of sync the moment a drawing is touched. Catching it in shop is the expensive option.
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Output is inconsistent across drafters.
Two drafters, two sets of standards, two-sheet packages that don’t look like they came from the same shop. Reviewers feel it.
Sheet 03 · Planned workflow
Architectural drawings in.
Shop drawing packages out.
AI Drawing Intake reviews the drawings. Millwork IO’s deterministic tools draw the package. BricsCAD stays the executor. You stay in control of the DWG output.
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Upload architectural drawings.
Drop in the architect’s plans, elevations, sections, and the latest redline markup. PDFs, DWGs, scans — the messy stuff a real project ships with.
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AI Drawing Intake reviews the drawings.
AI Drawing Intake reads cabinetry plans, elevations, sections, and redlines, and surfaces what it found for you to confirm before anything is drawn.
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Millwork IO draws the package.
Deterministic tools generate the full shop drawing package in DWG — plans, elevations, sections, details, sheet meta, and revisions — and regenerate the package on every revision round.
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Adjust with Millwork IO’s tools whenever you want.
You can step in and adjust the DWG output with the same Millwork IO tools at any point. AI doesn’t freely edit DWG entities — you and Millwork IO do.
Architecture note
AI doesn’t directly edit DWG entities. Millwork IO inside BricsCAD remains the deterministic executor for drawing generation, validation, and regeneration — reviewed by you.
Sheet 04 · Who it’s for
Built for the people who actually push the sheets out.
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Millwork drafters
Spending too much of the week pushing geometry around instead of solving the hard details.
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Commercial casework teams
Running multiple casework-heavy projects in parallel and feeling the per-sheet cost.
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Designers
Wanting shop-ready output to come out of design intent without a second translation pass.
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Architects
Working with millwork shops and tired of revisions sitting in a drafting queue for a week.
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Shops dealing with frequent revisions
Where the cost isn’t the first issue — it’s the 4th, 5th, and 6th rev that crushes the schedule.
Sheet 05 · Early access
Get on the list. We’ll reach out before we open up the first releases.
Millwork IO isn’t public yet. The early access list is how we’ll line up the first shops, drafters, and designers we work with — and how we’ll send the first build invites when they go out.
Sheet 06 · FAQ
A few honest answers.
Q·01 Is Millwork IO available yet?
No. Millwork IO is in active development and is not publicly released. The early access list is how we’ll line up the first shops and drafters when builds start going out.
Q·02 Will AI be included at release?
Yes. AI Drawing Intake is part of the intended release product. We’re not planning to release Millwork IO publicly without it.
Q·03 Does AI edit the DWG directly?
No. AI doesn’t freely edit DWG entities. Millwork IO inside BricsCAD remains the deterministic executor for drawing generation and regeneration, and you can step in and adjust the DWG output with Millwork IO’s tools at any point.
Q·04 Is this replacing BricsCAD?
No. Millwork IO runs inside BricsCAD. BricsCAD remains the CAD environment your team works in — Millwork IO sits on top of it and handles the shop drawing automation.
Q·05 Who is Millwork IO for?
Millwork drafters, commercial casework teams, designers, architects, and shops dealing with frequent revisions — anyone whose week gets consumed by producing or updating millwork shop drawings.
Q·06 Is manufacturing export included in the first release?
Not in the first release. The initial focus is the shop drawing package in DWG. Manufacturing-export workflows are on the longer roadmap, not the launch scope.