# CADABRA documentation

> How CADABRA works inside SOLIDWORKS: installing the add-in, Agent Mode, Ask Mode, Drawings Mode, writing prompts that resolve, configuring your drawing standards, plans and usage limits, and troubleshooting.

URL: https://cadabrai.com/docs/
Updated: 2026-08-15

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- [Getting started](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/) [Install](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/install/)
- [Your First Prompt](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/first-prompt/)
- [How It Works](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/how-it-works/)

- [All Five Modes](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/all-modes/)
- [Agent Mode](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/agent-mode/)
- [Ask Mode](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/ask-mode/)
- [Drawings Mode](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/drawings-mode/)

- [Writing Prompts](https://cadabrai.com/docs/prompts/writing-prompts/)
- [Prompt Library](https://cadabrai.com/docs/prompts/prompt-library/)

- [Drawing Standards](https://cadabrai.com/docs/standards/drawing-standards/)
- [Components and Fasteners](https://cadabrai.com/docs/standards/libraries-and-plm/)

- [Plans and Limits](https://cadabrai.com/docs/account/plans-and-limits/)
- [Preferences](https://cadabrai.com/docs/account/preferences/)
- [Billing](https://cadabrai.com/docs/account/billing/)

- [Data Handling](https://cadabrai.com/docs/security/data-handling/)

- [CADABRA Issues](https://cadabrai.com/docs/troubleshooting/cadabra-issues/)
- [SOLIDWORKS Errors](https://cadabrai.com/docs/troubleshooting/solidworks-errors/)

# Documentation

Installing the add-in, the five modes, writing instructions that resolve, drawing standards, plans and limits, and troubleshooting.

## Start here

If CADABRA is not installed yet, [install the add-in](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/install/) first. It takes about five minutes and runs on the SOLIDWORKS license you already have.

If it is installed and you want to know what to type, read [writing a prompt that resolves](https://cadabrai.com/docs/prompts/writing-prompts/).

## Sections

- [Getting started Requirements, installation, and a first edit.](https://cadabrai.com/docs/getting-started/)
- [Modes Five modes, and which of them can change your model.](https://cadabrai.com/docs/modes/)
- [Prompts The grammar that makes an instruction resolve.](https://cadabrai.com/docs/prompts/)
- [Standards Title blocks, projection, units and notes.](https://cadabrai.com/docs/standards/)
- [Account and plans Plans, usage, preferences, and billing.](https://cadabrai.com/docs/account/)
- [Security and data What happens to your geometry.](https://cadabrai.com/docs/security/)
- [Troubleshooting When something does not work.](https://cadabrai.com/docs/troubleshooting/)

## Elsewhere on this site

- Something is broken or behaving oddly: [the help centre](https://cadabrai.com/help/).
- What CADABRA is and who it is for: [the product pages](https://cadabrai.com/ai-cad/).
- Definitions of the terms used here: [the glossary](https://cadabrai.com/glossary/).
- Commercial questions: [pricing](https://cadabrai.com/pricing/) and the [FAQ](https://cadabrai.com/faq/).
- Anything else: [contact us](https://cadabrai.com/contact/), we reply within one business day.

On this page

- [Start here](#start)
- [Sections](#sections)
- [Elsewhere on this site](#elsewhere)