CAD & PLM Automation, Augmented by AI
Auto-Configure links your CAD models to Microsoft Excel, so engineering teams can define hundreds of design variants in a familiar spreadsheet and generate accurate parts, assemblies and drawings automatically. We build with AI ourselves, and we design AI agents that extend this same automation into your wider CAD, PDM and PLM workflow.
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Illustrative example. Auto-Configure reads parameter values you define in Excel and regenerates the corresponding SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings automatically.
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Why Auto-Configure
Auto-Configure keeps your design knowledge in a spreadsheet your whole team can read, instead of buried inside CAD features only one engineer understands.
Is this for your team?
Product lines with dozens or hundreds of configurations are exactly where automation pays back fastest.
If manufacturing capacity sits idle because engineers are still modeling routine variants, automation closes that gap.
When budget for additional design headcount is limited, automation adds capacity without adding staff.
Centralizing rules in Excel makes standards explicit, auditable, and easy for the whole team to follow.
Products
Auto-Configure automates configuration and standardization for any SOLIDWORKS model. Design Tools for Manifold adds purpose-built commands for hydraulic manifold design. CADPilot lets engineers run commands by voice. ProcessWorks moves and copies model libraries with every reference intact. See full product details →
Export model parameters to Excel, define your configurations there, and generate accurate SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings automatically — complete with a Standardizer to keep every model consistent.
A dedicated command set for hydraulic manifold design — block creation, component and footprint placement, network coloring, and automatic drawing views, tables and annotations.
Speak your design intent in your own language, and CADPilot executes the matching SolidWorks command instantly — deterministic, not generative.
Copy or move SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings together with every reference they depend on — mapped, selected and relocated accurately.
Desktop-first, by design
Cloud-hosted CAD platforms, including Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE, have been around for a few years now. Most engineering teams, in our experience, still do their daily design work on desktop CAD — and a lot of CAD automation vendors have followed the cloud trend anyway. We've chosen to stay focused on where most of our clients actually work.
All four of our products run on desktop SOLIDWORKS. Our team builds the same kind of desktop automation for any major CAD platform — SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Siemens NX and others — and develops integrations into cloud platforms like 3DEXPERIENCE where a specific project calls for it.
Send us a representative part and we'll show you what an Auto-Configure workflow looks like for it.
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