Cutaway
ChatGPT pluginLearn how machines work
Attach a photo or name a machine to explore how it works. Cutaway identifies the likely model, looks for technical references, and creates an interactive cutaway with selectable parts, controls, and HTML or SVG downloads. It distinguishes documented details from illustrative internals and unknowns.
You can also open finished models of the GE9X jet engine, wing designs, an espresso machine, and a boxer engine. Each includes explanations, sources, and its simplifications.
The hosted tools open the finished models inside ChatGPT. Custom drawings use the image, search, file, and code tools available in your session. Photos and custom drawings aren’t sent to Cutaway’s server. You don’t need a separate API key or Cutaway account.
The drawing toolkit comes from Ryan’s (@wheresryan22) MIT-licensed /anatomy. Optional glow and palettes come from April Zhu’s iso-glow, based on Tolga Cohce’s iso-figure. Cutaway adapts their work for ChatGPT and keeps the upstream licenses.
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Example prompts
- “Explain how the machine in my photo works with an interactive cutaway. Include sources and label illustrative details.”
- “Show the GE9X compressor and explain how its turbine drives it.”
- “Open the espresso machine while brewing and highlight the pump.”
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cutaway
Explain how machines and hardware work by creating educational cutaways as interactive HTML, isometric SVG, or editable React figures. Use for requests such as "explain how this machine works" with a photo or model number, and for engines, wings, pumps, appliances, and other physical mechanisms. Identify the machine and research its internals before drawing it. Also supports requested software analogies. Doesn't cover medical anatomy or ordinary flowcharts.
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- ABHAY RAJ KUMAR · Website
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- Available
- Version
- 0.3.0
- Keywords
- education, hardware, engines, cutaway, isometric, svg
- Created
- October 12, 2026
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