Short answer: Sohrab Haghighat says Hestus runs on Autodesk Fusion, with SolidWorks due within weeks. He says it targets anyone designing hardware, and users range from industrial valves and drones to diesel engines and dining chairs.
Watch this answer from Episode 53 (starts at 6:59) · Episode 53 notes and transcript
From Episode 53: He Ran a Rocket Launch Company. Now He Is Building Autocomplete for Hardware Design., starting at 6:59.
Jordan Metzner [6:59]: Okay. And so when you said... I mean, I mentioned AutoCAD specifically, but it's CAD agnostic then, you're saying. So, like, any CAD software Hestus can sit on top of it?
Sohrab Haghighat [7:08]: Correct. That is the... Basically, the plan. Today, are available on Autodesk Fusion, which is, the leading CAD product offered by Autodesk. We are, in a very basic... In matter of one or two weeks, we are planning to release on SolidWorks as well, which is another leading CAD product. And then over time, we are going to support other CAD platforms such as Onshape, such as NX or CATIA.
Jordan Metzner [7:36]: Okay. Awesome. And just in, your experience since building this, have you found specific industries in which, your software's been as specifically applicable? Has it been more in industrial? Is it in architectural? Is it in, I don't know, maybe in parts design? Kind of where have your customers found kind of the best implementation and use cases?
Sohrab Haghighat [7:58]: We are primarily focused on hardware design and hardware design applications, less so architecture. However, I should say I have seen some users using Hestus to help them that, basically design of an apartment or house and all those lines that it takes to basically manually add them, manually dimension and apply constraints, it helps them go through it faster. But our target audience is mechanical engineers, not necessarily mechanical engineers. We call everyone mechanical engineers, but an aerospace engineer, a robotics engineer, anyone who is designing hardware. And one of the beauties of how we are approaching, this problem slash solution is that we started from a top... A bottom up approach. Basically, we thought that, okay. We need to build this AI in a way that we went to school and became engineers. And where does every design start from? Starts from a sketch. You need to have a two d sketch to then later add depth to it. And because we started from this very bottom up, methodology, everyone can benefit from it. And we have seen our users come from a wide range of industries, from industrial valve design to designing drones, to designing diesel engines, all the way to people who have used it to design dining chairs. So... And that is what makes me very excited about the application of Hestus.
Sohrab Haghighat [9:32]: That's super cool.
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Jordan Metzner [9:47]: The output is this compounding time saving of effort that happens over a design period where starting at x to y used to take, z hours and now it takes one quarter z hours because you have Hestus here helping you out through the process.
Sohrab Haghighat [10:03]: That is the measurable, the tangible benefit of using Hestus today that we are going to save you manual clicks and in doing so, we are going to help you finish the same job faster with you as the designer in the loop. You have the full control over how the design is going to look like. So it's your design. It's your engineering. We just help you today to finish it fast.
