SOLIDWORKS AI: MCP servers and agent skills

How AI connects to SOLIDWORKS

An MCP server or skill can only do what SOLIDWORKS lets programs do. SOLIDWORKS exposes 2 automation interfaces:

• SOLIDWORKS API (COM) (COM automation): Every server listed here talks to SOLIDWORKS through its COM API, which is why all of them are Windows-only. They reach it from Python with pywin32, from Node.js with the winax bridge, or from a C# executable. Expect quirks: one project routes API methods with 13 or more arguments through generated VBA because Node.js COM bridges fail on them, and another attaches to the running session and refuses parts made from a Z-up template. The API help for your release lists the interfaces each server calls. Documentation
• VBA macros (Other): SOLIDWORKS records and runs macros, and some servers lean on that: one generates VBA for complex features, and another can log a session and export it as a Python script you can rerun. A macro route is useful when an agent's result should become a repeatable company tool rather than a one-off chat session.

What Dassault Systemes offers

Dassault Systèmes ships AI "virtual companions" rather than an MCP server. AURA arrived with SOLIDWORKS 2026 and searches, summarises and translates content stored on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and 3DSwym. LEO and AURA were offered in SOLIDWORKS 2026 FD01 through a SOLIDWORKS Labs (Beta) tab, and MARIE was added later. They focus on design guidance and knowledge, and need a licence connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. No SOLIDWORKS MCP server had been announced by 4 November 2026.

Checked 4 Nov 2026. Sources: SOLIDWORKS blog, What's New in SOLIDWORKS 2026 – Collaboration and Data Management, SOLIDWORKS blog, virtual companion posts, SOLIDWORKS Live, SOLIDWORKS AI explained (LEO, AURA, SOLIDWORKS Labs)

What you can do with SOLIDWORKS and AI

• Model a part from written requirements, such as a 100 × 80 × 8 mm plate with counterbored M5 holes, and compare the measured volume and mass with a hand calculation before saving.
• Insert saved parts into an assembly, add coincident, concentric or distance mates and run an interference check.
• Generate a drawing with standard views, model dimensions, GD&T frames and a BOM, then export PDF, STEP or STL.
• Change named dimensions, global variables, equations or configurations in an existing model and rebuild it.
• Reconstruct a sheet-metal or machined part from a supplier's DXF or DWG drawing.
• Search a SOLIDWORKS PDM vault and read BOMs and revision history (commercial ForgeMCP bridge).

Taken from the listings' own documentation. Check each listing for exactly what it supports.

Installing

The listings here document setup for ChatGPT, ChatGPT desktop, Claude, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Grok, LM Studio and VS Code. Install steps, copied from each project's own documentation, are on each listing's page. Most SOLIDWORKS integrations run on your own computer next to SOLIDWORKS, so you need SOLIDWORKS installed and licensed on the same machine unless the listing says otherwise.