Local desktop CAD.
For engineers.
A drafting tool that runs on your machine, saves to your disk, and exports the formats your work already lives in. Bought once. Owned. The browser preview runs today; the desktop build is targeting August 1, 2026.
Browser preview is session-only — save/open/full drawing packages arrive with the desktop build.
THE CONTRACT
No cloud
Project storage is on your disk. Nothing required to be online. Nothing phones home. The tool works on the train.
No account
Open the app, draft. There is no login wall, no email gate, no "create a workspace" first step. The browser preview is the same — open the page and draw.
No subscription
You buy a version and own it. No annual renewal, no per-seat bill, no feature gating on a payment cycle. One payment.
Real files
DXF, PDF, SVG out. Your data in formats every CAD pipeline and client already reads. No proprietary container holding your work.
I&C AS DATA,
NOT BLOCKS.
Every generic CAD tool treats instruments, valves,
and loop sheets as dumb linework with a tag attached. Forms 2D
understands them. An instrument is an object with a tag, a loop,
a service, and a symbol — not a block named
FT-101.dwg.
That means instrument insertion is faster, P&ID symbols obey ISA 5.1 because they know what they are, and a loop sheet is a thing you generate from the drawing instead of drafting by hand on a separate template.
If you draw P&IDs for a living, this is the difference between drafting a P&ID and fighting AutoCAD into producing one.
AI · OPTIONAL
BRING YOUR OWN KEY.
OR DON'T.
Forms 2D includes an AI assistant. It drafts geometry from a written spec, places symbols, drafts notes and tables. It's good. It is also not required.
The way it works: you bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key. Forms 2D uses it directly. Your key, your credits, your prompts — we are not the data middleman, we are not retaining your work, we are not charging you a margin on top of someone else's tokens.
Forms 2D is fully usable without AI. Every workflow is complete with it switched off. You bought a drafting tool. The AI is an add-on for the drafting tool, not the product wrapped around a chatbot.
BYO key
Your OpenAI or Anthropic API key. Direct calls. No proxy.
Switch it off
Single toggle. The base product is whole without it.
No data middleman
Forms 2D doesn't see your prompts or store your work for training. It calls the model on your behalf and shows you the result.
PRICING
YOU BUY IT.
YOU OWN IT.
Forms 2D is a one-time purchase for a version you own. There is no annual fee, no per-seat tax, no renewal email nine months from now telling you the price went up.
The price is in the range engineers already pay for worse CAD — and you pay it once instead of every year. That's the pitch. Cheaper isn't the point; honest is.
WHAT IT ISN'T.
- Not cloud CAD. Your project is on your disk. There is no "workspace" to sync.
- Not a SaaS. You don't rent it monthly. You buy a version and keep it.
- Not an AI-first product. The AI is an option you may never turn on. The drafting tool is the product.
- Not a collaboration platform. It draws drawings. It doesn't try to be Slack-for-CAD.
- Not trying to be Autodesk. Not racing them on checkbox count. Doing the thing, honestly, for the engineers we actually know.