Getting Started
ForgePilot is an AI workspace for mechanical and design engineers. It does the analysis work usually done by hand in Word and Excel, failure analysis, tolerance checks, drawing reviews, standards audits, and produces reports built to be verified, not blindly trusted. This page is the short manual: what everything is, and how to use it.
How to use ForgePilot
Sign in and pick your starting point
Open the Workspace and choose: Chat for quick engineering questions, Agents for full analysis reports, Calculator for guided calculations, or Projects to keep everything about one design in one place.
Describe your problem or upload a file
Type your component details into the form fields, or upload a drawing, CAD export, spec sheet, or test data. ForgePilot reads the file and shapes its analysis around it.
Get a complete, checkable report
Every report shows the governing equations and the substituted numbers, ends with hand spot-checks you can verify yourself, and where the math is unambiguous, an independent machine-checked result appears beside the AI's answer.
Save, share, and build on it
Results save to your account. In a Project, you can store files with automatic versioning, save reports as PDFs to cloud storage, and share the workspace with your team, every analysis tagged with who ran it.
The tools, in plain language
Each tool produces a complete, structured report from a short form, no prompt engineering needed.
FMEA Generator
Builds a failure mode and effects analysis: everything that could go wrong with your part, how bad it would be, and what to do about it.
Tolerance Stack-Up
Checks whether a chain of parts still fits together once real manufacturing variation is included.
Drawing Review
Audits an engineering drawing for missing datums, callouts, and tolerance issues before it goes to the machine shop.
Standards Compliance
Clause-by-clause audit of your design against a named standard (ASME, API, ISO, FAA, and more).
Test Plan Generator
Generates test cases, acceptance criteria, and instrumentation needs from your design inputs.
ECN Generator
Drafts an engineering change notice with impact analysis and affected-parts list.
8 Calculators
Beam deflection, stress, pressure vessel, bolted joint, bearing life, column buckling, fatigue, and thermal, with guided inputs and machine-checked results.
The acronyms, decoded
New to the field? These are the terms you will see across ForgePilot and every engineering job.
FMEA
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
A structured table proving you have thought through every way a part could fail, how severe each failure would be, and what controls catch it. Required documentation in automotive, aerospace, and medical work.
GD&T
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
The standardized symbol language on engineering drawings that defines how a part must be measured and how much its geometry may vary. Governed by ASME Y14.5.
Tolerance stack-up
Worst-case and RSS analysis
Adding up the allowed variation of every dimension in an assembly to check the final gap or fit. Worst-case assumes every part is at its limit; RSS (root sum square) is the statistical version.
ECN
Engineering Change Notice
The formal document that records a design change: what changed, why, and every part and document it affects.
FoS
Factor of Safety
How much stronger a design is than it strictly needs to be. A FoS of 2 means the part can take twice the expected load before failing.
Datum
Drawing reference feature
The surface or feature on a drawing that all other measurements are referenced from. Missing datums are one of the most common drawing errors.
Supported files
Images (PNG, JPG), PDF, STL, STEP, IGES, DXF, CSV, Excel (.xlsx), GCode, simulation outputs, code and text files. Bring your existing FMEA or tolerance spreadsheet as-is. Native CAD formats (SolidWorks, Inventor, CATIA, Creo, Fusion) cannot be read directly, export as STEP or IGES from your CAD tool first.
How you can trust the output
Every report shows its equations, ends with hand spot-checks, and where the math is unambiguous, ForgePilot recomputes the result deterministically and shows both. See the full validation cases on the Validation page.
Start with a problem you already know
The fastest way to learn the workspace is to run one real analysis, an FMEA or a tolerance stack-up on a part you are working on right now.
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