Hardware should move as fast as software
Speed makes PKD 3D, a CAD app that designs, checks and documents drones and defence hardware in the browser, with an AI agent that does the drafting and shows its working.
Why we started
Designing a drone means holding a dozen numbers in your head at once: mass, thrust, hover time, stress, heat. Desktop CAD draws the shape and leaves the numbers to spreadsheets, so the two drift apart and the problems show up at the review, or on the test stand.
We think the numbers belong in the model. In PKD 3D every edit re-checks the physics, every part can be swapped for a real one, and the analysis and paperwork come from the same source.
The AI agent is there to take the drafting off your hands, not the judgement. It plans out loud, uses real parts, checks its own work and never calls a design verified. You stay the engineer.
What we hold ourselves to
Show the working
Every number has a law, its inputs and a grade. If we estimated it, we say so.
Respect the engineer
Names, flows and shortcuts follow the habits of desktop CAD, so experience carries over.
Your data is yours
Open formats in and out, and a kernel that runs on your machine.
Build the next airframe with us
Write to us with a design problem and an engineer will reply.