How Can SOLIDWORKS AI Help Your Engineering Team?
SOLIDWORKS AI helps engineers find information, troubleshoot models, and automate tasks such as drawing creation and assembly setup. SWYFT helps you understand which tools are available in your SOLIDWORKS environment and where they could save your team time.
Does SOLIDWORKS have AI?
Yes. SOLIDWORKS includes AI tools within its design environment, along with Virtual Companions you can interact with using natural language.
Some capabilities assist with individual CAD tasks. Others help you find engineering information, understand model errors, or work through a process conversationally. AURA and LEO are the main Virtual Companions currently listed as available by SOLIDWORKS, with additional capabilities being introduced over time.
The tools you can use depend on your release and environment. See SOLIDWORKS’ current AI overview.
What can I do with AI in SOLIDWORKS?
SOLIDWORKS AI can help with documentation, model troubleshooting, assembly setup, and finding engineering knowledge.
Here are several practical examples:
· Prepare drawings. Use natural language to help create and refine drawings from your models.
· Investigate errors. Get explanations of modeling problems and guidance on how to resolve them.
· Start an assembly. Describe the structure you need, refine the proposed hierarchy, and generate assembly and part files.
· Find engineering information. Ask questions about relevant documentation, internal standards, and project discussions.
· Review the impact of a change. Identify related components and drawings that a proposed modification could affect.
· Simplify an assembly. Use guided tools to suppress modeled fastener threads that contribute to assembly complexity.
These are useful tasks to evaluate against your current process. If drawing preparation regularly holds up a release, for example, that gives you a specific workflow to test. Explore SOLIDWORKS AI capabilities.
What is SOLIDWORKS AURA?
AURA is an AI Virtual Companion that helps you find and use engineering knowledge.
Think about an engineer picking up an unfamiliar project. Before making a change, they may need to read design notes, find an internal standard, or understand a previous discussion. AURA helps users work through that documented information by asking questions and summarizing relevant content.
Its usefulness depends in part on the knowledge available to it. Keeping project information documented and accessible gives your team a better foundation for using this kind of assistance.
Read SWYFT’s guide to SOLIDWORKS AURA
What is SOLIDWORKS LEO?
LEO is an AI Virtual Companion focused on engineering tasks within SOLIDWORKS, including assembly structure generation and design error analysis.
For an engineer, that can mean getting an initial assembly hierarchy in place or working through why a feature will not rebuild. You describe what you need, review the response, and use the available tools to move the work forward.
SWYFT’s LEO article also explores its broader direction in design feasibility and manufacturing. As those capabilities develop, we can help you distinguish what is available in your environment from what is still being introduced.
Read SWYFT’s guide to SOLIDWORKS LEO
What is SOLIDWORKS MARIE?
MARIE is a scientific AI companion focused on areas such as materials science, chemistry, and microbiology.
Those subjects matter when a design raises questions about chemical exposure, material degradation, or suitability for a particular environment. SWYFT’s MARIE article looks at how scientific assistance could help engineers compare options and understand the reasons behind a material recommendation.
SOLIDWORKS describes MARIE on its Virtual Companions page, but does not confirm the same access currently stated for AURA and LEO. Contact SWYFT to check availability before planning around it.
FAQs about SOLIDWORKS AI
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SOLIDWORKS states that commercial SOLIDWORKS Design Offer and SOLIDWORKS Design with Cloud Services customers have access to AURA and LEO without an additional companion license.
AI usage is measured through Tokens, so included access does not mean unlimited usage. SWYFT can help you review your current license, setup, and usage requirements. See official access details.
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SOLIDWORKS states that customer data is not used to train its AI models. Its AI overview also explains its approach to intellectual property protection and links to Dassault Systèmes’ security and governance policies.
If your company has specific data requirements, include those in your review before introducing AI into the workflow. Read SOLIDWORKS’ data protection information.
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Yes. Engineers remain responsible for design intent, validation, and approving modifications.
A generated drawing still needs review. A suggested correction still needs to make sense for the model. AI assistance can reduce some of the work involved, but your team remains responsible for the engineering decisions. Read SOLIDWORKS’ guidance.
How can SWYFT help us get started with SOLIDWORKS AI?
SWYFT helps engineering teams choose a practical starting point, understand access requirements, and plan adoption around the work they already do.
Start with one recurring problem. Maybe engineers spend too long finding project information. Maybe assembly setup or troubleshooting is taking time away from design. We can help you identify a relevant capability and decide how to evaluate it.
That evaluation should include the time spent reviewing and correcting the output. The useful result is a better overall process.
