AiAD stands for Artificial Intelligence Aided Design. It is the successor idea to computer-aided design: where CAD gave a designer better instruments, AiAD gives them a collaborator that already knows the craft.
fabric is the first model of AiAD — the assistant, the agent and the designer. It reads geometry, understands how a part is actually made, and carries an idea from a single sentence to parts a workshop can cut, fold and build.
AiAD | fabric is built by Gilad Kenan, an Israeli artist and industrial designer, at his studio in Jaffa, Tel Aviv. The company is KENAN GROUP LTD.
fabric did not learn from the open internet. It learned from one master, inside Autodesk Inventor — the exact order a part takes shape: sketch, face, thickness, flange, hole, fold. That lineage is the whole difference between a picture of a thing and a thing that can be made.
What it produces is not a render. It is a 3D STEP file, 2D DXF flat patterns, a bend schedule with real allowances, and a price built from rates a real workshop issued.
What does AiAD stand for?
Artificial Intelligence Aided Design.
What is fabric?
The first model of AiAD: an AI industrial designer that turns a described idea into
manufacturable sheet-metal parts, with the drawings and the price a workshop needs.
Who makes it?
Gilad Kenan, artist and industrial designer, through KENAN GROUP LTD.
The studio and workshop are at Sarid St 28, Jaffa, Tel Aviv.
What can you do with it today?
Read a STEP file, unfold every part to its flat pattern, and price the job — free,
with no account. Describe a piece in words and watch it become a body you can turn
in 3D. Commission a studio piece, or a flat-packed kit.
Is it the same as AI-generated art?
No. Nothing here stops at an image. Every output is measured geometry a workshop can
quote from, and every price separates the fabrication from the design.
Where else can it be found?
giladkenan.art ·
Instagram ·
reach the studio
The engine room — drop a STEP file, watch every part unfold, and read the price. Free and ungated.
The Imaginarium — describe a piece in plain words and watch fabric imagine it into a body. Imagining is always free.
Own a piece — the studio works, photographed and priced: built for you, as a kit, or as blueprints for partners.
The craft — how a machine was taught to think in metal, and why that lineage is the product.