How Can AI Virtual Companions Help Me?
3DSwym communities are a powerful method of capturing your company's standards, guidelines, and best practices. A company can host communities on their own 3DEXPERIENCE platform and use them to encompass the storage of a company's own product knowledge, design reviews, part catalogues, company standards, guidelines, best practices, CAD training materials, and more. Communities capture all of this information and help to share it with others. AI then acts as a virtual companion, revealing the information and providing insights, leading to a better understanding and greater access to knowledge within the company.
To learn more about how to create a community on your own 3DEXPERIENCE platform for capturing best practices, check out the Knowledge Capture with 3DSwym Communities topic in this Getting Started Guide.
In addition to company-specific communities, there are also public communities hosted by Dassault Systèmes that contain general best practices for using SOLIDWORKS Design and using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
To answer questions and provide insight related to knowledge and know-how, the AURA virtual companion can be used to bring together information from public communities or internal communities specific to a company's own 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Prerequisites and Set Up
AURA Virtual Companion can be accessed directly within SOLIDWORKS Design via the Virtual Companions tab in the task pane.
To access the AI Virtual Companions, you will need access to a recent version of SOLIDWORKS Design and be connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
- SOLIDWORKS Design (Named-User License)
- SOLIDWORKS Design with Cloud Services (Device-Locked License)
- Have the Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS role granted to you
- Install the Design with SOLIDWORKS application
Note: Version 2026 SP3.2 or later is required to use the AI Virtual Companions in SOLIDWORKS Design
Installation guidance can be found in the Install Your Roles and Applications section of the Getting Started Guide.
<i>Note: Users do not need to save any of their files to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to use AURA or LEO.</i>
How To
Example - Gathering knowledge from your own company-specific 3DSwym communities
The following example is based on a Community wiki containing some specific company standards and guidelines for design and manufacture. The community is located on the user's own 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
In your SOLIDWORKS Design session, open the Virtual Companions tab in the Task Pane. Select Communities, and open the community that contains information that you would like to ask AURA a question about.
Note: Drag the Task Pane panel wider if the Communities option is not visible
2. From the drop-down menu on the top right, select Ask AURA
A new Virtual Companion conversation is started in the context of the 3DSwym Community.
Selecting the Sources button at the bottom of the Task Pane will show that the information AURA will access is focused on this community.
3. Type your prompt in the start writing area.
Example: "I need to design a custom mounting plate that must withstand highly corrosive environments and be manufacturable via CNC. What do you suggest based on my company standards and guidelines?"
4. AURA will reply using the information available in the Company Standards and Guidelines 3DSwym community.
Tips and Recommended Practice
A conversation with AURA can be started without a model or drawing open in the session.
At the end of the answer, AURA will list the sources used to generate its response. Click one of the links to review a specific source.
If AURA creates a long and detailed response, the Generate Summary option can be used to get a brief overview of the response if required.
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