AI Drawing Processing Notice

1. Attaching a drawing in Cadvex Cloud

When a drawing is attached to an RFQ or part in Cadvex Cloud, Cadvex reads it with Anthropic’s AI (Claude). There is no setting to turn this off: to keep a drawing from being sent to Anthropic, do not attach it in Cadvex Cloud. Cadvex Cloud analyzes STEP files without a drawing, and drawing information can be entered by hand. Cadvex Desktop reads drawings locally on the Customer’s computer.

2. What is transmitted

The complete selected PDF or image drawing is transmitted inline to Anthropic’s commercial API. Cadvex does not send STEP files, STL files or extracted STEP geometry to Anthropic for this drawing-extraction workflow.

3. Purpose

The drawing is processed to identify or interpret materials, tolerances, dimensions, finishes, treatments, threads, markings, drawing notes and other manufacturing requirements.

4. Retention and training

Cadvex does not claim Zero Data Retention for the current Anthropic workflow. Anthropic’s then-current commercial terms, model-specific safety policies and legal requirements govern retention and may permit a limited retention period, including up to approximately 30 days for applicable API traffic. Some provider circumstances may require different retention for safety, abuse prevention or law.

Under applicable Anthropic commercial terms, Anthropic states that commercial/API customer content is not used to train its models by default. Cadvex sends drawings inline and does not currently use Anthropic’s Files API for this workflow.

5. Cadvex Cloud storage

The original drawing may be stored in Cadvex’s private Cloud storage when saved as part of an RFQ. Extracted information may be stored with the Customer’s Cloud analysis so authorized users can review previous results.

6. Cadvex Desktop

Cadvex Desktop reads drawings locally on the Customer’s computer and performs no Anthropic or other external AI drawing extraction. Drawings attached in Desktop stay on the Customer’s device and are never transmitted to Cadvex or Anthropic.

7. No Customer-content training by Cadvex

Cadvex does not use Customer drawings, STEP files, geometry, extracted drawing content, quotes or other Customer Content to train Cadvex detection methods or general-purpose AI models.

8. Customer authorization

The Customer must ensure that it is permitted to submit a drawing to Cadvex Cloud and its subprocessors. The Customer must review applicable NDA, customer contract, export-control obligation and information classification before attaching a drawing in Cadvex Cloud. ITAR-controlled/CUI/classified technical data requiring a controlled environment must not be uploaded to Cadvex Cloud unless Cadvex has expressly agreed in writing to provide that environment.

9. Limitations

AI-extracted information may be incomplete, incorrect, misread or associated with the wrong drawing region. Customers must independently review the complete source drawing and should not manufacture or issue a binding quotation solely from extracted output.