Inside AutoCAD 2024+ · Windows desktop
The AI that drafts where you draft.
cadssistant opens as a palette inside AutoCAD and works your actual drawing — it picks points with your cursor, selects real entities, runs real commands. Generated code runs only after you approve it.
How it works
One command away
- 01
Install
Download the installer and run it — it puts the plug-in where AutoCAD looks. Prefer manual? Bare bundle (.zip).
- 02
Type the command
CADSSISTANTin the command line. The palette opens docked beside your drawing. - 03
Ask
Say what you need. Answer its prompts in the drawing. Approve anything that runs as code.
Windows blocked the installer?
Managed machines often refuse to run a downloaded .cmd ("This program is blocked by group policy"). Open PowerShell and paste this instead — it runs nothing from disk, so the block doesn't apply:
Or do it by hand: download the .zip above and extract it into %APPDATA%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins, then restart AutoCAD.
What it does
In the drawing, not about it
Native prompts
Point, corner, distance, angle, entity, selection — the model asks through AutoCAD's own input machinery, and you answer in the drawing.
Approval-gated code
Generated JavaScript is shown and held until you approve it. Nothing runs silently.
Effort, not model names
Standard for everyday drafting; Heavy and Extreme for the drawings that fight back. Benchmarked routes, no model menu to get wrong.
Local execution
Tool calls run in the palette, directly against AutoCAD's JS API. The drawing file stays on your machine.
Esc means esc
Cancel a prompt like any AutoCAD command. Cancellation returns to the model as information, not an error.
Picks up mid-question
Conversations persist. Reload the palette and a pending question is still there, still answerable.
Pricing
Priced like a tool, not a toy.
Trial
$0
7 days or 50 messages, whichever runs out first.
- Full power — every mode included
- No card required
- The full palette, inside your AutoCAD
Pro
$39/mo
For everyday drafting work.
- 300 messages a month
- Standard mode on frontier models
- Native AutoCAD prompts — pick points, select objects
Max
Heavy + Extreme$99/mo
For the drawings that fight back.
- 900 messages a month — three times Pro
- Heavy and Extreme modes for the drawings that fight back
- Everything in Pro
Prices exclude VAT and sales tax, which is added at checkout where it applies. Businesses in the EU can enter a VAT number for reverse charge. A message is a request you send — the assistant's own tool steps are free. Heavy messages count as 3, Extreme as 5.