Real features, not macros
Hole wizard, fillets, patterns, mates and fasteners are called straight through the SOLIDWORKS API. Nothing is scripted after the fact.
Your personalized AI CAD Copilot.
Describe a change in plain English. CADABRA makes it, as real features in your open model.
- Backed by
Watch a part edit itself.
One prompt, resolved into real feature operations on the open document.
Six modes.
Ask, Plan, Debug and Imagine leave your model alone. Agent and Drawings change it.
- Ask
- Questions about the open document, plus live web search. Changes nothing.
- Plan
- Writes a numbered build plan and runs none of it.
- Agent
- Makes the change as native feature operations, and exports files when asked.
- Drawings
- Draws and edits sheets on your own standard, and rebuilds a 2D print as a part.
- Debug
- Rebuilds the document and finds the failed feature, sketch or reference.
- Imagine
- Proposes rendered concepts. Picking one hands it to Agent to build, which needs a paid plan.
Ask for concepts, get real geometry.
Describe the part and Imagine Mode lays out design directions. Pick one and CADABRA builds it in your document, as features you can edit.
It builds the way an engineer would.
Shelled walls, corner bosses, ribs and fillets arrive as ordinary features in the tree, in the order you would have modelled them.
It lives inside SOLIDWORKS.
Not a converter, not a separate app. It opens in the task pane, on the document you already have open.
- The task pane
- CADABRA docks on the right, beside the tools you already use.
- The feature tree
- Every edit lands as an ordinary feature, so undo, rollback and reordering behave normally.
- Your title blocks
- Drawings come out on your sheet formats, view conventions and tolerance defaults.
- Your PDM rules
- Checkout and revision state keep applying. CADABRA does not work around them.
What it actually does to your model.
It checks its own work
CADABRA rebuilds and checks the result before reporting done. When an edit fails it says so.
It refuses instead of guessing
Say “the mounting holes” when three could match and it asks which. Give it a dimension that cannot work and it says so first.
Three steps to set it up.
Once, at the start. After that you are just prompting.
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Install the add-in
One installer, about five minutes. Your license, files, templates and PDM vault are untouched.
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Configure your standards
Upload a few released drawings. CADABRA reads your title block, view conventions, text heights and tolerance defaults from them.
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Start prompting
Describe the change and CADABRA makes it.
- 20,000+
- engineering tasks automated
- 500+
- engineers using CADABRA
Built for the tools engineers already use.
SOLIDWORKS today. The rest are in development.
SOLIDWORKS
Autodesk Fusion- Autodesk Inventor
Onshape- PTC Creo
- Siemens NX
- CATIA
Common questions.
Who is CADABRA for?
CADABRA is built for mechanical engineers, product designers, hardware teams, job shops, and manufacturers who use SOLIDWORKS and want to spend less time on repetitive CAD work. Students use it to learn the workflow while finishing coursework faster.
Is CADABRA secure for company data?
CAD content is encrypted in transit and at rest, under a key held in a hardware-backed vault separate from the data. Indexed content is filtered to the account that wrote it. CADABRA does not sell customer data. Enterprise adds single sign-on and zero-retention handling; on every other plan you can turn training off in dashboard settings.
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.
How much does CADABRA cost?
CADABRA has a free plan with no card required. Standard is $50/month and Professional is $120/month, both licensed for commercial use by one engineer, and Enterprise is custom priced with Drawings Mode, custom standards, SSO, zero-retention handling, and a dedicated engineer. Every paid plan can be billed yearly at 10 times the monthly price. Students pay $20/month on the education plan at cadabrai.com/education.
Does CADABRA work without an internet connection?
No. CADABRA reaches its AI processing environment over the network, and CAD data is encrypted in transit. Model inference requires sending the prompt and the assembled model context, so there is no offline mode. If that rules CADABRA out for your work, contact us before you evaluate it.
Who founded CADABRA?
CADABRA was founded by mechanical engineers with more than twelve years of hands-on SOLIDWORKS experience. The company is CADABRA AI Inc., headquartered in San Diego, California, and is backed by NVIDIA Inception, Berkeley SkyDeck, Siemens Technology Partner and Onshape Startup Program.
Ready to try it?
Bring a SOLIDWORKS file. We will edit it live in a 20-minute demo.