AI that works inside SOLIDWORKS, on your license.

CADABRA installs as an add-in and appears in the task pane. It edits the open model, produces the drawings, and answers questions about the file, without a migration and without leaving the window.

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Automation without writing macros.

SOLIDWORKS has decades of automation surface, the API, macros, design tables, and configurations, and every one of them requires somebody to write and maintain the automation.

CADABRA closes that gap by resolving intent at run time against the actual model. You describe the outcome and it performs the SOLIDWORKS operations.

What it does in the pane.

Agent Mode edits the model.

Describe a change and CADABRA performs the real feature operations: holes, fillets, patterns, thickness, material. The same edit repeats across a part family without a macro.

  • Hole Wizard, fillets, patterns, and geometry changes.
  • Repeats across a family or a set of configurations.
  • Everything lands in the feature tree, editable.

Drawings Mode documents it.

Views, sections, dimensions, hole callouts, BOM, balloons, title block, PDF. For one part or for every part in the assembly. Available on the Enterprise plan with your own standards configured.

  • Batch every part in a single pass.
  • Your title block, sheet sizes, and dimension styles.
  • PDF export ready for manufacturing.

Ask Mode explains it.

Questions about geometry, features, materials, and mass properties, answered against the open document. It also searches the web for pricing, material data, and process information without leaving SOLIDWORKS.

  • Read-only, so it cannot change anything.
  • Diagnoses rebuild errors, mate failures, and dangling relations.
  • Live web search for specs and rates.

It finds the part you already own.

Ask for a fastener and CADABRA sizes it to the hole, sources it from a part you name or from your SOLIDWORKS Toolbox, inserts it and mates it.

  • Company part, then Toolbox, then a generated screw.
  • Mated concentric to the bore and coincident to the hole mouth.
  • Pin the source if you do not want it choosing.

Adding AI to SOLIDWORKS takes about five minutes.

  1. 01

    Download the installer

    Get the add-in from the download page. It is a single Windows installer.

  2. 02

    Close SOLIDWORKS and run it

    SOLIDWORKS must be closed while the add-in registers itself. The installer handles the rest.

  3. 03

    Enable the add-in

    Reopen SOLIDWORKS and tick CADABRA in the add-ins list. It appears in the right-hand task pane.

  4. 04

    Start prompting

    Open a part and describe what you want. Nothing about your files, your license, or your PDM changes.

On the SOLIDWORKS name.

CADABRA is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Dassault Systèmes or SolidWorks Corp, and SOLIDWORKS is their trademark, used here only to identify the CAD system CADABRA works with. You need your own valid SOLIDWORKS license. Full detail is on the trademarks page.

AI for SOLIDWORKS, answered.

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 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.
Do I need my own SOLIDWORKS license?
Yes. CADABRA is an add-in, not a CAD system. You keep your existing SOLIDWORKS license, files, libraries, and PDM, and CADABRA works inside them.
Can CADABRA fix SOLIDWORKS errors?
CADABRA diagnoses rebuild errors, mate failures, dangling sketch relations, and missing references in the context of your open model, and explains what to change. Because it can see the feature tree and the failing feature, the answer is specific to your file.
Can it find the right component instead of me modelling one?
For fasteners, yes: CADABRA inserts them from SOLIDWORKS Toolbox, so you get the standard part your seat is already configured with rather than a modelled lookalike. It can also insert and mirror components you point it at. For anything else, Ask Mode can search the web for supplier and specification data, but nothing places a catalog part into your assembly for you.
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.
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.

Install it and try a prompt.

Free to start, no card, on the SOLIDWORKS license you already have.

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