Fabware

AI harness for hardware. Describe the part you want — Fabware designs it, validates it against real manufacturing rules, exports a production-ready DXF for SendCutSend, and fills out the rest of your bill of materials from McMaster-Carr.

Chat left, design right. A "Lovable for hardware."

Status

Early. Inherits a working prototype (chat → DSL → DXF → SCS handoff) and adds McMaster-Carr assembly parts. No auth yet — run locally.

See docs/PLAN.md for scope and roadmap.

Monorepo layout

lib/
  api-spec/          OpenAPI source of truth (orval generates the rest)
  api-zod/           Generated Zod schemas
  api-client-react/  Generated React Query hooks
  db/                Drizzle schema (Postgres)
  integrations-anthropic-ai/
artifacts/
  api-server/        Express API
  hardwareai/        Vite + React + shadcn/ui workspace (chat + canvas)
  mockup-sandbox/    Scratch
docs/
  PLAN.md

Getting started

Requires pnpm, Node 20+, and a Postgres database.

pnpm install
export DATABASE_URL=postgres://...
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...
pnpm -r --filter @workspace/db run migrate     # if migrations are set up
pnpm -r run build

Dev:

pnpm --filter @workspace/api-server run dev
pnpm --filter @workspace/hardwareai run dev

Partners

• SendCutSend — laser / waterjet / CNC flat-stock (DXF export, rule validation in scsRules.ts)
• McMaster-Carr — off-the-shelf fasteners, bearings, extrusion, etc. (part-number → deep-link, no scraping)

License

TBD.