# Introduction

> What Archee Studio is, what Archee MCP adds, and where to start.

Source: https://docs.archee.studio/start/introduction

Archee Studio is a hosted workspace for mechanical design: machine elements and power transmission. You describe the design in the web app, upload your work and hand tasks to Archee's agent. Everything runs on Archee's servers, so you install nothing and need no CAD software.

## What you get

- **Cited calculations.** Belts, gears, shafts, keys, bearings, couplings and housings, each step tied to the textbook table or formula it came from.
- **A Knowledge Base.** Search Vietnamese engineering textbooks and standards and get the page that answers, not a summary of it.
- **Drawings.** Build, inspect, render and convert DXF and DWG drawings that open cleanly in AutoCAD.
- **TCVN checks.** Check a drawing against TCVN drafting rules and get findings you can act on.
- **Deliverables.** Package the assembly drawing, the detail drawing and the report for submission.

## Two ways in

| | Archee Studio | Archee MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Where | The web app at [app.archee.studio](https://app.archee.studio) | Your coding agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop |
| How | Chat, upload, review | The agent writes short Python programs against the Archee SDK |
| Billing | Credits | The same credits |

Both use the same account, projects and files.

## Where to start

- [Quickstart](https://docs.archee.studio/start/quickstart.md) Your first cited calculation in five minutes.
- [Set up Archee MCP](https://docs.archee.studio/mcp/setup.md) Connect your coding agent.
- [Plans and credits](https://docs.archee.studio/start/plans-and-credits.md) What each plan includes.