Category
Artificial Intelligence
What artificial intelligence actually does in engineering and CAD work: design automation with generative models, code generation, and workflows that hold up in production.
This category treats AI as a tool with a measurable place at the CAD desk, not as a product promise: where generative models fit into design automation, which work they genuinely take over, and which work they cannot.
The articles explain what generative AI does to CAD automation — that it can write the code, that it cannot validate engineering rules on its own, and why the validation layer still belongs to the API and to the engineer. The ParametriX case study is that approach in working form: an AI layer interprets user intent while CAD operations stay governed by the SolidWorks API and engineering rules.
If you have asked an AI model for a SolidWorks or AutoCAD script and watched it fail on the object model, start here. The hands-on steps — writing an add-in with AI assistance, and what SolidWorks 2026 ships as native AI features — live in the Automation Workshop category.
