Our mission
“Make version control accessible to every engineer, regardless of discipline.”
Software engineers have had powerful version control for decades. Mechanical, structural, and industrial engineers deserve the same — without needing a computer science degree to use it.
The story
Lummicron started in early 2026, but the problem it solves is one we'd been watching for years. Engineering teams — whether building automotive components, industrial equipment, or structural assemblies — rely on design files that are touched by many hands across long timelines. And almost universally, the way those files are shared and managed is a mess.
We've seen it firsthand and heard it from engineers we know: a machinist receives a drawing that's already been superseded. A design review happens on the wrong revision because someone grabbed a file from an old email. A critical tolerance change gets lost because it was made in a local copy that never made it back to the shared drive. By the time anyone realizes the discrepancy, parts have already been cut.
The cost isn't just time — it's scrapped material, missed delivery windows, strained supplier relationships, and the kind of quiet frustration that builds when a team spends more energy tracking down the right file than actually engineering. We've heard engineers describe their file management as “a full-time job on top of the actual job.”
What made it worse was knowing the solution already existed — just not for them. Software teams solved this decades ago with version control. But Git was built by and for developers. Asking a mechanical engineer to learn branching strategies and command-line interfaces to manage their DWG files is asking the wrong question entirely.
So we built Lummicron: the version control workflow that engineering teams actually need, without any of the developer complexity they don't.
What we stand for
CAD engineers spend their careers mastering complex tools. We believe version control shouldn't be one of them. Every decision we make starts with: "Is this simple enough for someone who's never used Git?"
Your designs are your work product. We treat data integrity as non-negotiable. We'd rather delay a feature than ship something that puts your files at risk.
Engineering is a team sport. We build every feature with the assumption that multiple people need to work on the same files, at different times, in different locations.
We're engineers too. We know what it's like to lose hours of work to an accidental save, or spend twenty minutes hunting for the "right" version of a file. That frustration drives us.
Join engineers already using Lummicron and help shape the future of CAD collaboration.