More productivity
Engineers lose up to a third of their time to repetitive CAD work. CADABRA turns it into prompts so your team can focus on real design.
Your personalized
AI CAD Copilot.
Built on your standards. Optimized for the engineering workflows you already use.
Prompts in. Production-ready CAD out.
Describe the change in plain English. CADABRA resolves it into real SOLIDWORKS operations and deliverables.
Watch a part edit itself.
A sentence in CADABRA's panel resolves to a real SOLIDWORKS feature operation. Sketches edited. Dimensions refit. Drawing regenerated.
Plain English.
Real CAD operations.
Describe the change in plain language and CADABRA executes it directly inside your CAD environment. No macros, no scripts. Just the result.
Production deliverables.
Built to your standards.
Generate fully dimensioned drawings and bills of materials in one prompt. Every output follows your title block, sheet sizes, and naming conventions automatically.
The right part.
In seconds, not hours.
Tell CADABRA what you need and it searches your PLM, PDM, and component catalogs instantly. What used to take hours of folder diving takes one prompt.
Integrates directly into your CAD environment.
CADABRA installs as a SOLIDWORKS add-in, and works inside the tools your team already uses.
CADABRA
SOLIDWORKS
A structured workflow to automate your CAD processes.
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Install the add-in
A single installer integrates CADABRA directly into your SOLIDWORKS environment. No migration needed.
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Configure your standards
Connect your PLM/PDM, upload title blocks, and define your company's design rules. CADABRA learns your language.
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Start prompting
Type natural-language commands to create, modify, and generate production deliverables instantly.
33%
of engineering time is spent on repetitive CAD work.Tech-Clarity research
5×
faster drawing turnaround on the same workstation.Early CADABRA users
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migration steps. Installs as a SOLIDWORKS add-in.On your existing license
Built to grow your business.
Faster time to market
Modify parts, reuse models, and auto-generate manufacture-ready drawings and BOMs. Projects ship in a fraction of the time.
Fewer errors
AI-driven edits stay consistent across every assembly and part, cutting manual mistakes and costly rework.
Lower costs
Less engineering time means lower project costs. Save hours on every job and watch the savings add up.
Smarter decisions
CADABRA learns your patterns and suggests optimizations, standard parts, and better alternatives as you work.
Scales with you
As your design library and team grow, CADABRA scales with you, learning your workflow to keep improving over time.
Built for the tools engineers already use.
CADABRA runs today as a SOLIDWORKS add-in. More CAD, PLM, and PDM integrations are on the way.
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As engineers with backgrounds in aerospace and biomedical engineering, we've experienced firsthand how repetitive tasks consume valuable design time. CADABRA was born from a simple mission: give engineers more time to build, innovate, and design. We transform tedious CAD work into effortless magic.
Questions, answered.
Who is CADABRA for?
CADABRA is built for mechanical engineers, product designers, hardware teams, job shops, and manufacturers who use SOLIDWORKS and want to spend less time on repetitive CAD work. Students use it to learn the workflow while finishing coursework faster.
Is CADABRA secure for company data?
CAD content is encrypted in transit and at rest, indexed privately per organization, and only the context a given prompt needs is loaded at runtime. CADABRA does not sell customer data. Security practices align with SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, and Enterprise plans support zero-retention handling, private cloud, and on-premise deployment. On self-serve plans, check the training setting described below.
How does CADABRA integrate with SOLIDWORKS?
CADABRA installs as a SOLIDWORKS add-in with a single installer. Close SOLIDWORKS, run the installer, enable the add-in, and CADABRA appears in the right-side task pane. There is no migration and no file conversion: it runs on your existing SOLIDWORKS license and your existing files.
How does CADABRA integrate with PLM, PDM, and third-party tools?
Not today. There is no PLM or PDM connector in the product, and we would rather say so than imply one. CADABRA works on the files you have open and the drawing standards you upload to it, and it respects whatever your PDM does around those files. If a connector matters to your team, tell us which system and we will tell you where it sits.
How is CADABRA different from SOLIDWORKS Aura?
CADABRA performs CAD operations and produces deliverables; Aura is primarily a conversational assistant. CADABRA is configured with your own drawing standards rather than being generic, and it both modifies the model and produces the documentation from it.
What is an AI CAD copilot?
An AI CAD copilot is an assistant that lives inside a CAD program and performs real CAD operations from natural-language prompts. Instead of clicking through menus, an engineer types what they want, for example “fillet all sharp edges 2 mm” or “generate a drawing with our title block”, and the copilot executes the feature operations, updates the model, and produces the deliverables.
Is there an AI for SOLIDWORKS?
Yes. CADABRA is an AI CAD copilot built for SOLIDWORKS. It installs as a SOLIDWORKS add-in, edits parts and assemblies from natural-language prompts through native feature operations, generates production drawings and bills of materials on your own standards, and answers questions about the open model. Pricing starts free, then $15/month for students and $99/month for professionals.
How much does CADABRA cost?
CADABRA has a free plan with no card required. Student is $15/month with a valid .edu address, Professional is $99/month for commercial use by an individual engineer, and Enterprise is custom priced with Drawings Mode, custom standards, SSO, on-premise or private-cloud deployment, and a dedicated engineer.
Does CADABRA work without an internet connection?
Not on the standard plans. CADABRA reaches its AI processing environment over the network, and CAD data is encrypted in transit. The exception is an Enterprise on-premise deployment, which runs inside your own network so that nothing leaves it. That is a deployment option configured as part of an Enterprise agreement, not a setting you can switch on yourself.
Can CADABRA generate a BOM from a SOLIDWORKS assembly?
BOMs, yes. Drawings Mode builds the bill of materials from the assembly structure and balloons the sheet to match it, using the column set and naming conventions in your drawing standard. There is no RFQ packaging feature; that is something teams still assemble from the drawings and BOM themselves.
Who founded CADABRA?
CADABRA was founded by mechanical engineers with more than twelve years of hands-on SOLIDWORKS experience. The company is CADABRA AI Inc., headquartered in San Diego, California, and is backed by NVIDIA Inception and Berkeley SkyDeck.
Does CADABRA integrate with PLM or PDM?
Not today. There is no PLM or PDM connector in the product, and we would rather say so than imply one. CADABRA works on the files you have open and the drawing standards you upload to it, and it respects whatever your PDM does around those files. If a connector matters to your team, tell us which system and we will tell you where it sits.
Ready to try it?
Bring a SOLIDWORKS file. We will edit it live in a 20-minute demo.
or start a plan from $15/mo