Prompt library

Adapt the numbers and the references. Each group names the mode it needs.

Questions, in Ask Mode

Read-only, on every plan.

What does this part weigh in 6061, and what is its bounding box?: Reads mass properties and the bounding box off the open document and answers with the numbers.
What does Cut-Extrude3 do, and what breaks if I delete it?: Reads the feature, its parents and its children, and names what depends on it.
Which components in this assembly are suppressed?: Reads the assembly structure and lists them.
What is going to make this part expensive to machine?: Prose reasoning over what it can read of the open document, plus live web search, with the sources listed under the answer.
What would switching to 6061 change?: Recomputes mass from the geometry it can read, and reasons in prose about the rest.

Before a change, in Plan Mode

Read-only, on any paid plan.

Plan the change from a bolted flange to a welded boss on this part: One plan of 4 to 10 steps naming the features it would add, edit and delete. Nothing is touched.
How would you convert this part to sheet metal?: A plan, plus the boundaries it hits. Sheet metal bend edits are supported on an existing sheet-metal part; a base flange is not.
Plan the mates for this sub-assembly, then build it: The plan first. Use the Build this button on the plan to hand it to Agent Mode unchanged.

Editing geometry, in Agent Mode

Changes the model, on any paid plan.

Make the wall 3 mm thicker: Finds the driving dimension or the shell feature, changes it, and rebuilds everything downstream.
Add a 6 mm counterbored hole pattern on a 40 mm bolt circle: A Hole Wizard feature on your configured standard, plus the circular pattern that places it.
Fillet all sharp edges on this face at 2 mm: One fillet feature covering the qualifying edge set, not one per edge.
Pattern this rib eight times around the axis: A circular pattern from the selected feature and the axis you named.
Change the material to 6061-T6 and report the new mass: Applies the library material and returns the recomputed mass properties.
Rename every feature in this tree to what it actually does: A batch rename across the tree in one operation.
Apply this same edit to every configuration in the part: The edit repeated across the configuration list rather than the active one only.

Components and mates, in Agent Mode

Assemblies only.

Add M6 socket head cap screws to these four holes: Sizes the fastener to the hole, sources it from Toolbox, inserts it and mates it concentric and coincident.
Use the screw at this path instead of Toolbox: Pins the fastener source to the company part you named rather than letting it choose.
Insert this component and mirror it across the right plane: Inserts the part, then adds a Mirror Components feature across that plane. It mirrors where the component sits, not which way round it is, so it is a true mirror only for a part already symmetric about that plane.
Add a limit distance mate between these two faces, 5 mm to 30 mm: A distance mate carrying the range. Cam, gear, rack and pinion, width, slot, path, screw, universal and hinge mates are not supported.

Undoing a change, in Agent Mode

Reverting is a request you type, not a button. CADABRA does not group a run into one SOLIDWORKS undo record, so ask for the revert rather than pressing Ctrl+Z.

Revert the last step: Deletes the most recently created feature and returns the tree to the state before that step. The sketch an extrude consumed is its own earlier step, so ask again to peel that too. Parts only: in an assembly, name the feature, mate or component to delete.
Revert the build: Deletes every feature the run created, back to the model’s state at the start of that run. In-place changes, a dimension set, a material applied, a fillet edited, and anything deleted are not undone, and the reply lists them by name.

Getting a file out, in Agent Mode

The route from chat to a file on disk.

Export this part as a PDF to C:\Users\you\Documents\bracket.pdf: Writes the file, verifies it exists on disk, and reports the path it wrote.
Save this as a STEP file at D:\projects\housing\housing.step: A STEP export. Naming AP203, AP214 or AP242 is recorded and comes back as a warning: the application protocol cannot be set through this route.
Export the flat pattern to C:\Users\you\Documents\panel.dxf: DXF and DWG come from a real sheet-metal flat pattern on a part. A part with no sheet-metal feature is refused rather than projected flat, and an assembly is refused outright.
Save a copy as C:\Users\you\Documents\bracket-rev-b.sldprt: Writes the copy and leaves the open document pointed at its original file. Without "a copy", a native save repoints the open document at the new file and every later edit goes there.
Replace the existing file at C:\Users\you\Documents\bracket.pdf: An existing file is never overwritten unless the instruction says to replace it.

The shape of an export request. The extension picks the format.

export this <part or assembly> as a <format> to <absolute path>

.pdf                PDF
.step .stp          STEP
.igs .iges          IGES
.x_t .x_b           Parasolid
.stl                STL
.3mf                3MF
.dxf .dwg           sheet metal flat pattern, part only
.sldprt .sldasm     native save

Drawings and BOMs, in Drawings Mode

Changes the model and writes files. Enterprise today.

Make a drawing of this part on our B-size title block: New sheet, views placed and scaled, features dimensioned, title block filled from the model properties, on your learned standard.
Add an isometric and a section through the bore: Places the isometric and cuts the section on the plane through the feature you named, dimensioning what it exposes.
Drawings for every part in this assembly: One sheet per part plus the assembly drawing, each saved next to its model. A model that already has a drawing raises an Overwrite or Keep existing choice.
Insert the BOM and balloon the components: A BOM table from the assembly structure in your column format, with balloons matched to the item numbers. A BOM table is a drawing annotation, so this is Drawings Mode work and never Agent Mode work.
Review this drawing against our standard: A read-only critique of the title block, views, dimensions and standard conformance. It changes nothing unless you also ask for the fix.
Model this drawing as a part: The reverse direction. Drawing to CAD covers what it reads and what you have to check.

Diagnosing a failure, in Debug Mode

Read-only, on any paid plan.

Why did this feature fail to rebuild?: Reads the document metadata and the feature list, forces a rebuild with diagnostics, checks external references, then names the cause.
This assembly says it has dangling references. Find them.: The external-reference check runs on every Debug turn, so the answer names the components and the missing files.
The sketch will not fully define. What is missing?: Reads the sketch and reports the underconstrained entities and the relations that would define them. It does not add them; that is an Agent Mode request.

Concepts, in Imagine Mode

Read-only until you pick one, on every plan.

Design a wall bracket for a 3 kg camera with a tilt joint: Rendered concepts, each with what it is, key specs, why it fits, and how it is built. Pick one to model it hands that concept to Agent Mode, which builds it.
Give me three enclosure options for this PCB: Three concepts. A count between two and four is honored; outside that range it is clamped, and four is both the default and the maximum. Refine my request drops them and takes another prompt instead.
What is a good wall thickness for an injection-molded ABS housing?: A plain answer. A message phrased as a question is answered rather than turned into concepts; a design word such as design, build, model, concept or option always produces concepts.