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The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings

GD&T takes years to master. Engineers must encode their design intent into a dense syntax that manufacturers must decode, and not everyone gets it right. Put ten engineers in front of the same drawing and you may get ten different interpretations. Which means errors often surface later in interface stack-ups, manufacturing, or in the field - when they’re far more expensive to fix. That’s why we built F4 - the platform that analyzes GD&T to determine whether your designs are ready for production. Drop in your drawing and 3D file. F4 analyzes every element of your GD&T to assess whether your design is clear, manufacturable, and production ready. To make the drawing easier to understand, engineers can visualize their datums, reference frames, and tolerance zones directly on the 3D model. F4 also calculates tolerance stack-ups instantly - directly from the drawing. What once took hours of manual work now takes seconds. When issues are found, F4 flags them and guides engineers toward resolving the problem. After analyzing your drawing, F4 also automatically generates design and inspection reports - stack-up tables, FAI reports - ready to share with your team. And it does all of this locally on-device with no AI used for analysis. Producing deterministic results engineers can trust.
Active Founders
Paul Shin
Paul Shin
Founder
CEO & Co-Founder @ F4 | Previously Mechanical Design Engineer @ Tesla Drive Unit where I owned 6 CyberCab & SEMI production parts and led the global drive unit heat exchanger program producing 3M+ units annually | Earlier, pioneered liquid-bipropellant rocketry @ UA & UC Berkeley
Aidan Cantu
Aidan Cantu
CTO & Co-Founder
CTO & Co-Founder @ F4 | Previously Avionics Test Engineer @ SpaceX where I designed and built hardware for Raptor 3 engine testing | Earned B.S. & M.S. in Electrical Engineering in four years with minors in CS & Math
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F4 - The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings
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GD&T takes years to master, and even experienced engineers can interpret the same drawing differently. When design intent is unclear, issues tend to surface later in interface stack-ups, manufacturing, or worse, in the field where fixes become far more expensive.

We built F4 to address that.

F4 - The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings

Upload a drawing and 3D model and F4 analyzes the GD&T to assess whether the design is clear, manufacturable, and inspectable. Engineers can visualize datum reference frames and tolerance zones directly on the 3D model, instantly calculate stack-ups from the drawing, and identify issues before they become costly problems.

F4 also generates the reports teams need to move forward, including stack-up tables and FAI documentation.

All analysis runs locally on-device using deterministic algorithms, producing reliable results engineers can trust.

Watch the video below to see how it works.

https://youtu.be/Bfsxwxq6r1s\


To evaluate whether your designs are truly production ready, book a demo of the F4 Enterprise platform on https://f4.dev and see our full GD&T coverage.

Or try F4 Lite at http://f4.dev/lite - our advanced PDF engineering drawing viewer built to replace browsers and tools like Acrobat for reviewing prints!

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We help hardware teams 10x how they redline & interpret engineering drawings
F4 Industries
Founded:2025
Batch:Summer 2025
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Jon Xu