Today marks a milestone in how the industry works. Virtual Companions — Aura, Leo, and Marie — are now globally available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS, in the Age of Industrial AI.
More than AI assistants, Virtual Companions are trusted experts who embody decades of industrial knowledge and know-how. They understand your intent, reason with Industry World Models grounded in the laws of physics and materials science, and orchestrate actions across the full lifecycle of your products — helping you see the invisible and achieve the impossible, before anything physically exists.
This is not about adding AI to your tools. It's a new kind of teamwork — humans and Virtual Companions co-creating, safely and at scale, on your most complex challenges.
The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform integrates AI-driven Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences—to boost efficiency and accelerate innovation.
But what are Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences?
Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences help you complete and automate activities reliably, from analyzing technical data to generating deliverables to solving complex engineering problems.
Virtual Companions
Virtual Companions are the AI-powered virtual workforce of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS.
They reason, plan, and act to address complex industrial problems and interact with you through natural conversations.
Each Virtual Companion has a specific mission, accomplished thru Competencies, and a distinct personality.
Competencies are the ability to perform a particular job or purpose. A Competency covers an entire domain of expertise, relying on more granular skills. Virtual Companions embody Competences. For example, AURA project management or LEO Mechanical Engineering.
There are three distinct Virtual Companions:
| AURA - the Business Expert Empowers any user by leveraging Enterprise Knowledge & Know-How | |
| LEO - The Engineer Effectively solve technical challenges in all engineering disciplines | |
| MARIE - The Scientist Bring Deep Scientific Knowledge to Engineers or Researchers |
Generative Experiences
Generative Experiences leverage Industry Knowledge & Know-How to robotize industrial processes.
They create or enrich Virtual Twins, while ensuring quality and compliance with industry and enterprise standards
Generative Experiences handle complex and repetitive tasks efficiently, improving the overall operational efficiency of users, teams, and organizations.
By taking on lower-value tasks, they enable users, teams, and organizations to focus on creative, strategic, and high-value work, fostering innovation.
Move from slow, manual, and expert-dependent SOLIDWORKS workflows to faster, AI-assisted design by using AURA and LEO to turn natural language intent into CAD actions across parts, drawings, assemblies, equations, macros, materials, and documentation, with contextual help available directly inside SOLIDWORKS.
Instead of spending time searching commands, rebuilding models, fixing broken references, creating drawings manually, troubleshooting large assemblies, or repeating the same setup tasks, users can learn, create, diagnose, optimize, and document with AI guidance in the flow of work. The result is faster design creation, clearer manufacturing documentation, better model quality, improved manufacturability, stronger large assembly performance, and a more intuitive experience for both new and experienced users.
And because every discipline works differently, each Virtual Companion comes with Competencies designed for the way you work.
Here's what this means for YOU:
Virtual Companions Competencies
Aura Moments
Knowledge that already exists finally gets used with AURA.You stop answering the same question twice. People find existing answers before they even finish asking. | |
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Leo Moments
| Moment 1: Virtual Companions | Competences | |
Challenge: One of the parts in my assembly was imported from a STEP file, but I need to modify the geometry. What's the best way to do that? Response: I can help you convert a solid body into a fully parametric model Value: Move from manually rebuilding imported STEP or IGES geometry with no feature history, sketches, or parameters, to automatically converting BREP geometry into a fully parametric SOLIDWORKS model with native features and an editable feature tree. This makes imported parts easier to edit, refine, and reuse, especially for reverse engineering and workflows where existing CAD data needs to be modified, improved, or extended for future design work. | |
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Get Started with your Virtual Companions:
For help and guidance on getting started, check out the guide below.
