From spec to build

The spec is a sentence. CableViz builds the cable and checks it.

One design, ten outputs, each built from the same record and each checked against the spec.

The spec says
“16 AWG 15 conductor 600V control tray cable with XLPE insulation, corrugated bare copper tape shield, and CPE jacket. Overall diameter 0.729 in.”
CableViz built and checked
Engineering cross-section of the cable: fifteen colour-coded stranded conductors and a filler inside a shield and a black jacket
Conductors
15 defined · 15 built
Overall diameter
18.517 mm, matches 0.729 in
Layers
Binder · shield · 1.524 mm jacket
Packing
66.3% vs 75% target: flagged

The jacket compound isn’t in the material library yet, so the render shows which material it fell back to instead of guessing quietly.

The problem

Cable pictures and cable specs drift apart.

  1. Drawn by hand, once

    Cross-sections and renders get made in a design tool for a few hero products. The rest of the catalog gets a stock photo or nothing.

  2. Nobody checks the picture

    A 15-conductor cable drawn with 12, a shield that isn’t there, a jacket the wrong colour: nobody notices until a customer does.

  3. The spec lives in prose

    Conductor counts, insulation, shields and diameters are written in a paragraph, not stored as data that anything can be built or checked from.

How it works

One contract in, every view out.

  1. Start from words or a spec page

    Describe the cable, or give the manufacturer’s spec or URL. AI drafts the contract, and you review it before it’s saved.

  2. Real dimensions

    Conductor, insulation, shield and jacket sizes are worked out and recorded with their source: the manufacturer, a rule, or a default.

  3. Pack the core

    The conductors are packed into the core and the layers built around them, with the overall diameter checked against the spec.

  4. Every view from one model

    Cross-section, engineering render, 3D model, product render and photorealistic shots, all from the same construction.

  5. Validate before publishing

    A validation report compares what was rendered with what was defined, and flags anything that doesn’t add up.

Create with AI

From a sentence or a spec page to a draft cable.

Type what the cable is, or point at the manufacturer’s spec. The AI fills in sensible defaults for anything you leave out, and shows you the draft and its findings before anything is saved.

  • Interpret a manufacturer page: get a confidence score, findings and warnings, and optionally merge it into the contract you already have.
  • Edit the JSON directly when you know exactly what you want.
Create a Cable with AI: a choice between describing a cable and giving a manufacturer spec or URL, the description ’4 pair 23 AWG shielded Cat6A, LSZH jacket, blue’, an optional name and a Create and Review button
Describe a cable; you review the draft and findings before it’s saved.
Physical construction

The numbers behind the picture.

Every design gets a diameter budget: the specified, calculated and calibrated overall diameter, the core space available and the bundle that has to fit in it. Each layer shows its thickness and where that number came from.

  • Packing density against target, so a construction that doesn’t pack the way the spec implies is flagged, not hidden.
  • Packing diagnostics: gaps between elements, the packed bundle diameter and the margin left in the bore.
  • Save as JSON from every stage.
Physical Construction for a 15-conductor tray cable: a warning that bundle packing density of 66.3% is below the 75% target, tiles for specified and calculated overall diameter, a density analysis, the diameter budget, and the physical layers with their source
A 15-conductor tray cable: the diameter matches the spec, and the packing is flagged as below target.
Validation

The render is checked against the definition.

Before a design is used, CableViz compares what it rendered with what was defined: pairs, conductors, pair shields and drains, the overall shield, drain, binder and jacket, and a dimensional cross-check of diameter and packing.

  • Pass or fail at the top, with every count and flag underneath.
  • A machine-readable manifest you can keep with the product.
Validation Report for a 22 AWG 4-conductor plenum cable: Validation Passed, structural counts with 4 conductors defined and 4 rendered, structural flags, and a dimensional cross-check
A 4-conductor plenum cable: four defined, four rendered, validation passed.
Materials

One material library behind every renderer.

Copper, tinned copper, foils, braids, PVC, XLPE, FEP and more: 30 materials, each described once and used by the 3D model, the product renders and the photorealistic renderer. Preview a material in 3D and see how its values translate for each renderer.

  • Versioned: start a working version, adjust it, then publish it, with the original kept.
  • Every assignment shown: each element lists the material it resolved to, and any fallback is flagged.
Material Preview Studio: a list of 30 materials grouped into metal, metallic film and polymer; polyvinyl chloride selected with its description, a live 3D preview, surface appearance values and a table translating them for the Blender renderer
Material Preview Studio: PVC, with a live 3D preview and its renderer values.
Product Render Diagnostics for a 4-conductor plenum cable: render info, camera presets, lighting, and material assignments for every element with the badge ’All profiles resolved’
Render diagnostics: every element’s material, all resolved.
Your catalog

Every cable in one place, ready to render.

Search and sort your designs by type and status, open any one to see its whole pipeline, and regenerate a stage when the contract changes. Outputs know when they’re out of date.

  • Downloads for every output: SVG and PNG cross-sections, GLB 3D models, render images and JSON.
  • Feeds Product Image Forge, which turns these designs into store-ready product images.
The Designs list: nine cable designs including plenum, control tray, composite, coaxial and hybrid fiber camera cables, each with type, cross-section status Ready, last modified date and an Open button
Nine demo designs, from a 2-conductor plenum cable to a SMPTE hybrid fiber camera cable.
Render settings

Catalog-consistent shots, set once.

Choose render quality, output size, the default camera and background, and which views every design gets: catalog hero, catalog side, marketing base and more. Every cable in the catalog is shot the same way.

CableViz Studio settings: render quality samples, denoiser, full or preview output resolution, default camera preset and background, and the photorealistic output views to render
Settings: quality, resolution, camera, background and output views.
Built to be trusted

Pictures you can stand behind.

Built from data, not imagined

Cross-sections and renders are drawn from the cable’s contract. AI only helps draft the contract, and you review it first.

Every number has a source

Dimensions are marked as manufacturer-specified, rule-based or defaulted, so you know which ones to confirm.

Checked before it ships

The validation report compares the render with the definition and shows a clear pass or fail.

No silent guesses

Packing that misses its target, and materials that fall back to a default, are flagged on the design.

Out-of-date outputs say so

Change the contract or the camera and the outputs built from the old version are marked out of date.

AI usage you can see

AI drafting is metered per company, so you know what it costs.

Who it’s for

For people who sell wire and cable.

Wire and cable manufacturers

Accurate cross-sections and renders for the whole line, not only the flagship products.

Distributors

Consistent, spec-correct images across brands that never sent you any.

Product and engineering teams

A structured record of each construction that can be checked, exported and reused.

FAQ

Common questions

Is this an AI image generator?

No. The images are rendered from the cable’s construction, so the conductor count, colours and layers are the ones in the spec. AI is used to draft that construction from a description or a spec page, and you review it before it’s saved.

What kinds of cable does it handle?

The demo designs include multiconductor, multi-pair twisted, composite, coaxial and hybrid fiber cables, with shields, drains, binders, fillers and jackets.

How is it different from Product Image Forge?

CableViz Studio is where each cable’s construction is defined, built and checked. Product Image Forge uses those designs to produce product images for your store at catalog scale.

What can I export?

Cross-sections as SVG or PNG, the 3D model as GLB, the rendered images, and the contract, construction and validation data as JSON.

What if the spec is incomplete?

Missing dimensions are filled from rules or defaults and marked that way, so you can see which values came from the manufacturer and which still need confirming.

Let’s talk

Send us a few spec sheets.

We’ll build those cables in CableViz Studio and show you the cross-sections, renders and validation for each.