AI Built into SOLIDWORKS Design
Accelerate your product development with AI-powered tools and Virtual Companions built to master your design workflow.
From initial ideation to final optimization, SOLIDWORKS® allows you to integrate AI and Virtual Companions into your design process. Securely refine every iteration with embedded AI CAD automation, allowing you to focus on high-value engineering while keeping your proprietary data and IP protected. By automating manual updates and streamlining the design workflow, engineering teams can focus on solving complex problems, high-value work, and accelerating product development to bring superior products to market more quickly.
Embedded AI that Works Inside Your 3D CAD Workflow
Using AI shouldn't mean leaving your workspace. SOLIDWORKS integrates AI directly into your environment to enhance how engineers work. SOLIDWORKS AI focuses on three core areas: accelerating design and improving quality, automating repetitive tasks so you can focus on higher-value engineering work, and capturing and reusing knowledge to drive consistency and efficiency across projects.
Command Predictor
Anticipates likely next steps based on modeling patterns.
Generative Drawings
Automatically generate structured drawing layouts, views and dimensions.
What's Wrong Analysis
Resolve modeling errors and complete your iteration faster with natural language feedback and root-cause analysis.
AI-Powered Assembly Structure Generator
Generate complete structures with organized top-level assemblies, subassemblies, and components.
Auto-Fastener Recognition
Automatically detects and optimizes fasteners for easy assembly.
SOLIDWORKS AI Virtual Companions: An Expert at Your Side
Bringing a Virtual Companion into your workflow enhances how you use AI manage product design. It handles repetitive tasks and surfaces the insights you need, so you can stay focused on real engineering problems. The result is faster development, better product quality, and tools that fit naturally into your existing process. Explore how Virtual Companions combine engineering context with integrated capabilities that help engineers move through design, validation, and documentation faster.
AURA – Context and Knowledge
AURA connects engineering context, documentation, and knowledge.
What AURA Helps You Do
- Ask context-aware questions about your active design, assembly, or project
- Explore relevant documentation and design process knowledge without leaving SOLIDWORKS
- Summarize technical discussions, design review notes, and engineering document
- Navigate SOLIDWORKS Design and 3DEXPERIENCE platform resources faster
Availability: Available today with Cloud Services.
LEO – Engineering Design Intelligence
LEO will expand mechanical design intelligence across modeling and validation workflows.
- Convert specifications, requirements, and natural language prompts into structured parametric CAD
- Diagnose model issues and improve performance
- Transform legacy or imported data into parametric models capturing design intent
- Support engineering review and documentation workflows
Availability: Expanding through 2026 and beyond.
SOLIDWORKS AI Resource Center
Explore key resources on the AI built into SOLIDWORKS Design, from videos on the strategy behind SOLIDWORKS AI models to assets that highlight the latest AI tools to take advantage of today in your design process for higher-quality outcomes in product development.
3D CAD Creativity Built on Security
Artificial intelligence innovation and data protection go hand-in-hand, making customer intellectual property our top priority. Security and privacy are the foundation for all of our SOLIDWORKS AI tools. We know that intellectual property is the most valuable asset our customers possess. Therefore, we protect user data with uncompromising, rigorous standards.
Key Protections
- No training on proprietary customer data
- Transparent governance controls
- Secure cloud infrastructure
Our SOLIDWORKS AI models are trained only on proprietary or synthetic data, and not on client data.
Our artificial intelligence functionality operates strictly within intended parameters to uphold user trust and compliance. Our AI is engineered to respect confidentiality, keeping proprietary designs protected against unauthorized access. We adhere to the Dassault Systèmes Systèmes Trust Center’s guidelines on AI security and data privacy, which set rigorous ethical and operational standards for AI-based functionality. For the most current and comprehensive policies, refer directly to the Dassault Systèmes Trust Center to learn how we approach security, privacy, and trusted AI.
Measurable Engineering Value
SOLIDWORKS AI product design drives design and business impact across three pillars.
Accelerate Design and Improve Quality
Generate, evaluate, and refine multiple design concepts in the time it used to take to develop just one.
Reduce Repetitive Tasks and Focus on High-Value Work
Remove tedium and focus on what engineers enjoy: designing, exploring ideas, and solving real problems.
Knowledge Capture and Reuse
Easily reuse your team’s knowledge to avoid repeat errors and build on past experience.
Our AI strategy is built on one core conviction: the physical world runs on physics. This shapes everything, including how our AI is built, how it reasons, and how it collaborates.
Manish Kumar
CEO | SOLIDWORKS
R&D Commitment to SOLIDWORKS AI Expansion
How can you trust SOLIDWORKS is invested in the future? SOLIDWORKS R&D takes advantage of a more than $1 billion research and development investment from Dassault Systèmes. SOLIDWORKS AI is deliberately advancing, building deeper engineering intelligence with each release.
With five enhancement releases each year, here are some enhancements you can look forward to:
- Intent to CAD
- Drawing Reconstruction
- Manufacturing Documentation
- Design Validation
- Assembly Optimization
- Engineering Guidance
Frequently Asked Questions
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Bring AI Into Your Engineering Workflow
SOLIDWORKS AI is already improving productivity today – and access IS included with your license.
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