Stardraw Cloud

Stardraw Design 7 → Cloud: what’s new

If you already design with Stardraw Design 7, you’ll feel right at home in Stardraw Cloud — it’s the same engineering-grade AV design you trust, rebuilt for the browser, your whole team & the AI era. This isn’t a competitor; it’s your upgrade path. Everything that made Design 7 good is still here, with collaboration, no installs & a built-in AI assistant on top.

What you already love about Design 7

Stardraw Design 7 has been a workhorse for AV professionals for years: precise, symbol-driven drawings, a real understanding of equipment & signal flow, & engineering output you can build from. It runs comfortably on a Windows desktop, it’s yours once you have it, & it does the job. None of that goodwill is wasted — Stardraw Cloud carries the same design philosophy forward. Think of this as moving house, not starting over.

What’s new in the Cloud

Design 7 is a single-user Windows application: no real-time sharing, no AI & tied to one machine. Stardraw Cloud keeps the engineering depth & adds the things that simply weren’t possible on the desktop:

Runs in your browser — nothing to install or update, & no longer Windows-only; pick up a project from any computer.
Real-time collaboration — your whole team can work on the same project at once, with changes appearing live for everyone.
Intelligent cabling with validation — connect ports & Stardraw Cloud checks direction, signal type & connector pairing, flagging issues before the installer ever sees them.
Snapshots as quotes — freeze a project state as a read-only, shareable snapshot for quoting & sign-off.
A built-in AI assistant — plus drive it from Claude — ask for what you need in plain language inside the editor, & use the remote MCP server to design from Claude itself.
Flat, unlimited-user licensing — a per-application fee plus optional modules (Projects / Layout / DWG), with no per-seat fee.
Still produces real engineered drawings — panel, schematic, block, rack, plan & DWG views from a live product catalogue, with DWG export.

Design 7 vs Stardraw Cloud

	Stardraw Design 7	Stardraw Cloud
Deployment	Windows desktop (per machine)	Browser — any computer, no install
Collaboration	Single-user	Real-time multi-user
Engineered drawings	Yes — panel, schematic, block, rack, plan	Yes — panel, schematic, block, rack, plan, DWG
Cable / connection validation	Limited	Direction, signal & connector-pairing checks
Quotes / sharing	Manual export	Snapshots-as-quotes + read-only viewer links
AI	None	Built-in assistant + remote MCP server (drive it from Claude)
API / automation	None	Documented REST API + MCP
Licensing model	Per-machine desktop licence	Flat per-app + modules, unlimited users — no per-seat fee

The upgrade is straightforward: the concepts — products, symbols per view, drawings, signal flow — map directly from Design 7 to the Cloud, so your existing know-how transfers on day one. You gain collaboration, AI & anywhere-access without giving up the engineering rigour you already rely on.

Make the move

Try the same design discipline you know, now in the browser & shareable with your team.

Try Stardraw Cloud by visiting stardraw.cloud

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