Automation is no longer a luxury.
Large manufacturers automated their engineering because they could afford a department to write and keep the rules. Signal carries the rules for you, and gets better every time your team corrects it.
Describe what you need. Signal generates what your shop can build.
Two generators, one rule: your shop's construction standards, applied to a new job in seconds, with every part, fastener and joint already in the model.
Kitchen generator
Give it the room: straight, L, U or galley, the wall lengths, appliance spaces and countertop. It divides each wall into cabinets your shop can build, reuses the same side panels wherever the construction allows, and builds the kitchen in Fusion with every Lockdowel fastener in place. Cabinet Fronts adds doors, drawers and sink; Island adds an island with its aisles checked. Try the division:
The default above is a real test. In Fusion, a 3,000 mm wall became 7 cabinets of 4 types sharing 4 side parts, with 126 Lockdowel fasteners and 63 dowels, exactly what the cabinet templates call for.
Coming next on the same rules: a closet generator for hanging, shelf and drawer modules.
Build generator
Bars, counters and shelving repeat their construction from job to job. Draw the plan, and Structure from Sketch places a rib at every station, builds the panels and splits the run into modules that fit your sheet. Before it generates, it previews the modules on the plan: one colour per design, every seam drawn dark, and any module that will not fit the sheet or the site access in red. Register the result as your style once; from then on, Build from Style turns a new outline into a whole structure, with the longest modules your sheet, laser and brake allow and as many shared parts as possible.
Drawn by Signal · from the Fusion model⤢ InspectPick the sketch faces where the modules go, the entrance and where other equipment sits.
Save the section at every station, the shelf and front profiles and the corners as a style.
Draw only the outline. Runs, corners, ends and modules come from it, ranked by shared parts.
Rebuilt from its plan sketch: 8 modules from 3 designs and their mirrors, 36 ribs from one section, stations no more than 625 mm apart, every flat part checked to fit a 4' × 10' sheet.
Drawn by Signal. Not by a drafter.
Every sheet you can open on this site was drawn by Signal from the Fusion model: laser, bending, tube, welding and finishing sheets, installation steps, site surveys, customer drawings, kitchen elevations, nests and simulation reports. Nobody placed a view, typed a dimension or filled in a table.
Every sheet follows it
Your title block, logo, sheet layout, units and language are set once. Every drawing after that follows them, for every part and every job.
Corrected once, drawn right after
Approve or correct a welding sequence or an assembly order, with its reason. Signal learns it, and every drawing from then on reflects it, without anyone redrawing a sheet.
Balloons and a CSV
Signal balloons the inspection drawing and writes the inspection points to a CSV, ready to build the inspection report.
Never an old revision
A sheet belongs to its export. Change the model, export again, and every sheet is redrawn to match.
What Signal draws, and how each sheet is checked.
Every sheet is checked automatically before anyone opens it: nothing outside the frame, no text over text. On top of that, each kind of drawing carries the review its job needs.
| Drawings | Review it carries |
|---|---|
| Laser cutting, bending, rolling | Every inspection point ballooned on the sheet, and the same points written to a CSV for the inspection report. One list, so the inspector's number and Signal's never drift apart. |
| Tube cutting, tube bending, tube fold, tube joint, finishing | The automatic check before release. |
| Welding, one sheet per build step | Each sheet is approved or flagged with a discrepancy, with who and when, and prints its state: approved, open discrepancy or pending. A redrawn sheet goes back to pending; the weldment is released when every sheet is approved. The welding sequence is approved or corrected with its reason, and the sheets redraw with it. |
| Weld spec and assembly method, in the 3D review | Proposed, counter-proposed by the supplier, accepted by design; the customer adds constraints. Every step is kept, so the reasoning stays with the part. |
| Woodworking sample validation | The assembly views and final measurements the shop checks on the first sample, before everything ships flat pack. |
| Customer drawings: general arrangement, exploded modules, kitchen front elevations | Marked for customer review, with an approval line. Kitchen measurements are confirmed against the site survey. |
| Site survey, sheets and a readings CSV | The crew's readings are read back by point and judged against the tolerances; each filled copy is kept as a revision. |
| Installation, one sheet per step: a cabinet, a kitchen or a whole site | A cover with what ships, the tools, the crew and the time, and a final check with sign-off. |
| Simulation report | A pass or fail verdict; its gauge and weld suggestions are reviewed, and Signal learns from them. |
| Model summary, material forecast, nest reports | Information for planning and buying; no approval. |
Open any drawing to inspect it at full detail. Each one carries a Drawn by Signal stamp.
Signal learns from every design.
Every rule in Signal makes a proposal, and a person on your team approves it or corrects it. A correction is never just an edit. Signal keeps its own proposal, your decision, the reason and the features of the part, and pools them across jobs.
The next design starts from what the last one taught. Knowledge stays with the shop instead of leaving with whoever made the call.
Signal derives
Fasteners, banding, weld order, nest, cost, install steps, each stated with the facts it came from.
Your team decides
Approve as proposed, or correct it and pick a reason. Signal only asks what could go either way.
Both are kept
Proposal, decision, reason, who and when, in an append-only log. A redrawn sheet goes back to pending.
The rules move
Corrections pooled across jobs show where a rule is wrong. The rule is fixed once and every future design gets it.
Every approved or corrected sequence is stored with the part's mass, joints and envelope as a training example.
Approvals and discrepancies are tied to exactly what the sheet showed. A change re-opens the sheet.
Won and lost bids keep their reason, so the next quote starts from what the market said.
A variance from the model opens a change record and carries into the next revision.
Modelled crew time is printed next to the time observed on site, so the gap is visible.
The routing, nests and inspection plan that made the part right are replayed on the next purchase order.
Every decision keeps its reason.
| When | Entry | Part | Who | Why |
|---|
Example entries for one kitchen job.