AI for Onshape

CADABRA does not run on Onshape yet. It runs on SOLIDWORKS today, doing real work, and Onshape is in development. This page tells you what exists and what does not.

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Where Onshape support stands.

Not shipping yet. CADABRA is a SOLIDWORKS add-in. If you need an AI copilot inside Onshape today, this is not it.

Onshape is API-first and versioned by design, which makes it the most tractable target technically: branches and merges give a copilot somewhere safe to work and something precise to show you before anything is merged.

The waitlist is not a mailing list. It is how the build order gets decided, so adding your team moves Onshape up.

What CADABRA does today, on SOLIDWORKS.

Every capability below is in production now. It is the same engine that would come to Onshape.

Text to CAD

Prompts resolved into native feature operations on the open part. How it works.

CAD to drawing

Views, dimensions, callouts, BOM, and title block generated from the model. How it works.

Drawing to CAD

Legacy prints rebuilt as parametric models. How it works.

Ask Mode

Read-only questions about geometry, materials, and rebuild errors, answered against the open file.

Plan Mode

A step-by-step build plan drafted without touching the model.

Debug Mode

Rebuild errors, bad sketches and failed features diagnosed against the open document.

Who is asking for Onshape.

The requests come from distributed teams and education users who chose a browser-native CAD system on purpose. The workflows they name first are the same ones SOLIDWORKS users named first: batch drawings, family-wide edits, and getting a bill of materials out of an assembly without retyping it.

That consistency is the reason support is worth building rather than porting badly. The engine is the same; the part that has to be right is how it speaks to Onshape specifically.

Roadmap questions, answered.

Does CADABRA work with Fusion, Inventor, Onshape, Creo, NX, or CATIA?
Not yet. CADABRA runs today as a SOLIDWORKS add-in. Support for other CAD packages is in development and you can join the waitlist for the one you use.
What is CADABRA?
CADABRA is an AI CAD copilot that installs as a SOLIDWORKS add-in. You describe a change in plain English and CADABRA performs the real SOLIDWORKS feature operations: sketches edited, dimensions refit, parts rebuilt, drawings regenerated. It also produces production drawings and bills of materials on your own title blocks and standards.
What is text to CAD?
Text to CAD is turning a written description into real CAD geometry. A generic text-to-CAD tool produces a standalone mesh or a one-off solid. CADABRA does text to CAD inside SOLIDWORKS: the prompt resolves to native feature operations on the feature tree, so the result is a parametric, editable SOLIDWORKS body.
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.
Do you train on my CAD files?
By default on Free, Student, and Professional, yes: the EULA and privacy policy state that CAD geometry, prompts, and metadata may be used to operate, maintain, and improve CADABRA and its AI models. You can stop it at any time with the data setting in your dashboard, which takes effect from the moment you turn it on rather than retroactively. On Enterprise, zero-retention handling is configured as part of the agreement.
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.

Get Onshape sooner.

Tell us your team size and the workflow that hurts most. That is what sets the order.

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