Your personalized
AI CAD Copilot.

Built on your standards.

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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 inside SOLIDWORKS. No macros, no scripts.

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.

Point it at your fastener folder and it picks the screw that fits: nearest nominal size to the hole diameter, shank length from the hole depth. No match there, it falls back to Toolbox, then to a generated screw, and tells you which one it used.

Integrates directly into your CAD environment.

CADABRA installs as a SOLIDWORKS add-in, and works inside the tools your team already uses.

A structured workflow to automate your CAD processes.

  1. Install the add-in

    A single installer integrates CADABRA directly into your SOLIDWORKS environment. No migration needed.

  2. Configure your standards

    Upload a handful of your released drawings. CADABRA extracts your title block, view conventions, text heights and tolerance defaults from them, so new drawings come out looking like your drawings.

  3. Start prompting

    Type natural-language commands to create, modify, and generate production deliverables instantly.

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SOLIDWORKS operations performed natively.Through the API, not a macro
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read-only probes of the open document.Geometry, mates, BOM, interference
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migration steps. Installs as a SOLIDWORKS add-in.On your existing license

What it actually does to your model.

79 operations, not macros

Hole wizard features, batch fillet and hole edits, bolt circles, patterns, mates, fasteners, configurations. Each one lands in your tree as an ordinary feature, so undo, rollback, reordering and PDM revisioning work exactly as they did before.

It checks its own work

An edit that quietly did nothing is the worst outcome, because you find out three revisions later. CADABRA rebuilds and checks the result before telling you it is done, and reports the failure instead when it is not.

It refuses instead of guessing

Say "the mounting holes" when there are three candidates and it asks which, rather than picking one. Give it a dimension that cannot work and it says so before your model is touched, not after.

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.

The CADABRA Founders San Diego

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. Chats, attachments, standards files and feedback are encrypted at rest under keys held in a hardware-backed vault, separate from the data. Indexed content is filtered to the account that wrote it, and only the context a given prompt needs is loaded at runtime. CADABRA does not sell customer data. Enterprise plans support single sign-on and zero-retention handling. 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. CADABRA works on the files you have open and the drawing standards you upload, and your PDM rules around those files keep applying. If a connector matters to your team, tell us which system.
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, zero-retention handling, and a dedicated engineer.
Does CADABRA work without an internet connection?
No. CADABRA reaches its AI processing environment over the network, and CAD data is encrypted in transit. Model inference requires sending the prompt and the assembled model context, so there is no offline mode. If that rules CADABRA out for your work, contact us before you evaluate it.
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. CADABRA works on the files you have open and the drawing standards you upload, and your PDM rules around those files keep applying. If a connector matters to your team, tell us which system.

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