Photo your hand-drawn template, upload a PDF, drop a sketch. SketchCAD reads it in seconds and outputs a CNC-ready DXF — edges, cutouts, dimensions, and corner radii all recognized.
Almost every shop still bridges a hand-drawn or field-measured template into CAD manually. Someone — the owner on Sunday, the CAD operator at 4 PM, the lead fabricator before he can program — sits down and redraws what’s already on paper. Edges. Cutouts. Dimensions. Corner radii. The same 30–60 minutes per template, every template, forever.
Digital templating systems solve this — but they run $25–45k upfront plus per-template fees, and they require trained operators. Generic CAD subscriptions run $200–500/mo and aren’t built for stone. For a lot of shops, that math doesn’t pencil. So they keep doing it by hand, and the CAD step keeps being the bottleneck.
SketchCAD AI is built specifically for that gap — at a price point intentionally set well below any other CAD or templating tool: from $49/mo for small shops, $99/mo for unlimited use. You don’t change your templating process. You don’t buy a $30k system. You take a photo, upload a PDF, drop a sketch — and the AI does the same redrawing your CAD operator would do, in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes. With stone-shop-specific intelligence: standard sink cutouts auto-applied, edge profiles assignable, dimensions parsed from the drawing itself.
It’s not a replacement for digital templating — it’s the bridge that lets a hand-template shop run a digital-speed back office.
Plenty of AI tools can read a drawing. None of them know what a 1.5" radius corner means, or that an apron sink cutout is shaped differently than a standard. SketchCAD is built specifically for countertop fab — not adapted from a generic CAD tool.
Here’s exactly what SketchCAD does — with an honest example of what each capability looks like when you’re working a real template. Built specifically for stone shops, not adapted from a generic CAD tool.
SketchCAD pays back fastest for the shop without a dedicated CAD operator — but every shop with a hand-template-to-CAD workflow saves time. The math just changes scale.
No dedicated CAD operator. The owner or lead fabricator is in CAD nights and weekends to keep up with templating.
12–25 employees. Dedicated CAD operator, but they’re overloaded and templates queue up behind them.
Templating crew measures on-site, then drives back to shop, then a CAD operator redraws. SketchCAD compresses this.
Two or more locations. Each has different CAD operators with different conventions and edge libraries.
Forget the feature list for a moment. Here’s the math: most shops without digital templating have someone — the owner, a lead, or a dedicated CAD operator — spending 12–25 hours a week redrawing templates. That’s real labor, every week, forever.
Conservative midpoints for a mid-size shop with no digital templating. 40 templates/week, 30 min average CAD redraw time per template, at $45/hr loaded CAD operator cost.
Two tiers, two real audiences. Pay monthly for flexibility, or annual and get 2 months free. A free tier with limited templates will also be available at launch — try before you commit.
No new templating process to learn. No new field equipment to buy. Just a faster bridge between what you’re already doing and a CAM-ready DXF.
Honest answers about accuracy, pricing, privacy, and what SketchCAD isn’t.
Get notified at launch with early-access pricing below the public price. We’ll also send a short note when the beta opens — the kind of thing you’d want to hear about if your CAD bottleneck is real.