Fair concern, and it’s the right question to ask of any new tool. A few concrete answers:<p>Your work isn’t trapped. Drawings export to DWG, DXF, PDF, and STEP at any time, and you can save the native file locally. If Aircad vanished tomorrow, your drawings open in AutoCAD.
The engine runs in your browser, not on our servers. Modeling and drafting don’t round-trip to a server, so it’s fast and isn’t fragile the way server-side CAD is.
On liability: the professional of record carries it whatever the tool. AutoCAD’s license disclaims it too. What a firm needs from software is accuracy, standard formats, and an exit path, and that last one is why DWG round-tripping got so much of my time.<p>The price is low because a small team building on modern infrastructure has much lower costs, not because corners were cut.