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AI in CAD & PDM

AI is fundamentally changing how engineers work with smarter tools that improve product design from sketch to production.

What Can AI in CAD & PDM Do?

CAD (computer-assisted design) software has always been about translating engineering intent into geometry. With AI in CAD, engineering tools will think at engineering speed by understanding design constraints, learning from past work, and automating solutions at a pace and scale that multiplies team capabilities.

AI Guidance

A new engineer used to spend their first weeks pulling senior engineers away from work to ask questions. AI-assisted guidance changes that. It knows the platform, best practices, and design history, surfacing the right answer at the right moment.

AI Automation

Every design process has steps that are tedious. Across drawing creation, search, export, and design review, AI in CAD modeling and drafting handles those parts automatically, so the people designing are designing.

AI Optimization

The best design is rarely the first. As generative AI in CAD matures, every viable iteration can be tested and ranked automatically against real engineering constraints until the best candidate emerges.

The Best Foundation for AI is Cloud-Native

AI in CAD software is only as capable as the data it works from and data fidelity correlates directly to how accurate, useful, and trustworthy the AI becomes. Only a database-driven, cloud-native CAD and PDM solution can deliver AI capabilities like no other system for three reasons:

Real-time Data Capture

Every design decision is recorded as it happens, not when someone remembers to save. That continuous stream of live data gives AI the context it needs to offer guidance that is actually relevant to what you are doing right now, not a version from an hour ago. That’s the difference between an AI that guesses and one that actually reasons.

Permissions and Accountability

For AI to act on designs and product data safely, it needs the same access controls that govern human collaborators. Every action taken by an AI agent is logged, attributable, and reversible. Without this infrastructure, autonomous AI in CAD is not trustworthy enough to use

Collaboration en temps réel

When collaboration is a foundational property of the platform rather than a feature bolted on, AI agents can participate as genuine teammates. They see what engineers see, when they see it, and can act in the same live environment without operating on stale information.

The Big AI & CAD Webinar


Whether you use Onshape, SOLIDWORKS, Inventor, Fusion, NX, or another CAD system, if you're curious about where AI is taking engineering, this on-demand webinar is for you. See how AI creates sophisticated parametric CAD from a simple prompt, automates repetitive engineering tasks, and turns product knowledge into intelligent, reusable engineering tools. Explore why engineering context matters, where today's AI still falls short, and what the next generation of AI-powered engineering workflows looks like. Get a practical understanding of where AI is already helping today’s engineers, and where we think it’s heading next.

AI Tools Built into Modern CAD: Onshape’s Approach

Conseiller en IA

Ask about Onshape features, best practices, or troubleshooting and get accurate answers without leaving your model, all powered by Onshape’s own consistently updated documentation.

Replicate Annotations (Beta)

Uses machine learning and probabilistic matching to replicate annotations from one drawing view to another, including dimension style, layout, and placement. Built for automating drawing creation across design variants.

FeatureScript MCP

The Model Context Protocol server is a toolkit for building custom features. Connect AI clients like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini to Onshape, and build CAD tools specific to team needs.

Éditeur NVIDIA SimReady

Publish directly to platforms compatible with NVIDIA Omniverse to define robotics behavior, export SimReady OpenUSD data, and keep simulation in sync as designs change.

AI-Enhanced Search (Coming soon!)

Search Onshape’s public model library by visual description rather than part numbers or metadata strings. Find what a part looks like, not just what someone named it.

AI Quick Render

Generate a professional-grade CAD-to-image rendering from a simple text prompt in mere moments. Uses your Onshape model and the latest AI image generation technology without leaving the platform.

FeatureScript Co-Complete

AI autocomplete built directly into Feature Studio. Engineers can build custom features faster, encoding company-specific logic and capturing reusable knowledge.

AI Agents (Coming soon!)

Agents can be added to Onshape like any other user, with granular permissions you define. They can access data, give design feedback, manipulate geometry, or run tedious tasks.

Built Cloud-Native, Built for the Future

The engineers and teams experimenting with AI in CAD software are now building solutions that will compound over time. Onshape gives you the platform to start today with the architecture to grow into whatever comes next.

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