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Catch problems before release — review models, assemblies, and drawings automatically against your company-specific or industry-standard checklists.
See the downstream impact of a design change before you commit to it, including every assembly where the component is used.
Generate production-ready drawings with AI-controlled sheet size, dimensioning, and tolerancing, or apply your own standards across a bulk request.
Create and propagate aligned holes across assembly components using natural language — reference an existing hole or describe the spec, and LEO builds the matching features in every affected part.
Create exploded assembly views from natural language: specify the direction and spacing you want, and LEO generates editable explode steps.
Maximize material utilization on sheet metal parts with automatically nested flat patterns that reduce scrap and speed up fabrication prep.
Explore SOLIDWORKS AI
Discover, explore, and learn all in one place: the prompt library. A new centralized destination for everything SOLIDWORKS AI and LEO is now available. Browse the full library of skills, capabilities, and example prompts, while also accessing FAQs, learning resources, blogs, articles, safety information, and data privacy guidance. Available directly from the SOLIDWORKS interface, this one-stop resource makes it easier to understand what LEO can do, learn how to get the most from its capabilities, and quickly find the information you need.
Intent to CAD
Enhanced Part Generation
BREP to parametric conversion now recognizes additional features, such as circular patterns and contextual draft, and uses them to rebuild the model. The result: a cleaner feature tree that more accurately captures design intent.
Manufacturing Documentation
Enhanced Assembly Instructions Generation
Automatically select the base or starting component when generating assembly instructions, reducing the need for follow up input and making the overall experience more streamlined. Spend less time deciding how the assembly sequence should begin while still receiving clear, step by step instructions that are easy to follow across fabrication, assembly, training, and customer use cases. Benefit from improved visuals with consistently appropriate zoom levels throughout generation and in the exported PDF, helping each step remain clear and easy to interpret. Generate more complete and intuitive assembly documentation with less interaction and fewer manual decisions.
Enhanced Drawing Generation
Use the improved PropertyManager to generate drawings with greater control over sheet size, dimensioning scheme, and tolerancing while reducing the effort needed to prepare production-ready documentation. Choose automatic settings to let LEO apply the most appropriate options to each drawing in a bulk generation request or enforce preferred standards such as ordinate dimensioning across all selected drawings for greater consistency. Select from supported dimensioning and tolerance approaches or generate drawing views only when dimensions are not required, giving you the flexibility to match different documentation needs. Switch to Ask LEO at any time to refine requirements through natural language and customize drawings before or after generation with less manual setup.
Maximize Material Utilization for Sheet Metal Components
Automatically arrange flat patterns to maximize material utilization, reduce scrap, and prepare efficient sheet layouts faster. Create optimized layouts using standard or custom sheet sizes and quantities, then preview and refine results with precise control over spacing, kerf, rotation, flipping, starting position, and nesting direction. Simply describe the changes you want in natural language to adjust nesting settings without navigating complex controls. Export the finalized layout to DXF and move confidently from design to fabrication with less setup effort and greater control over material usage.
Design Validation
Quality Check and Guidance for Sketch Error Analysis
Review models, assemblies, and drawings automatically against your company-specific or industry-standard release checklists. Get components flagged that don't meet requirements before release, replacing a manual, error-prone review process with guided validation.
Ask what's wrong with your sketch and get an analysis of underdefined and over-defined entities, open contours, and intersecting geometry. Let LEO guide you on how to fix nearby open contours, trim intersecting entities, and apply the relations or dimensions needed to repair the sketch.
Assembly Risk Assessment
Identify the impact of a design change before you commit to it, including which components are impacted within your active assembly. Additionally, find where else your component is used within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to assess change impact across all assemblies. Make changes with full visibility into their downstream consequences.
Assembly Optimization
Enhanced Assembly Structure Generation
Stay in control of the generate assembly structure with an option to manually refine an AI-generated assembly structure by dragging and dropping components to reorder them, deleting components with a keystroke, and selecting multiple components at once. Adjust the generated hierarchy exactly the way you want before continuing your design.
Automatic Explode Views
Create exploded assembly views using natural language prompts. Specify the desired explode direction and spacing between components, and LEO will automatically generate editable explode steps for the assembly.
Hole Creation
Create and propagate aligned Hole Wizard holes across assembly components using natural language prompts. Reference an existing hole or describe the required hole specifications, and LEO creates corresponding hole features directly in the affected parts.
Enhanced Assembly Performance Analysis
Get better-grounded AI recommendations using your full assembly structure, detailed component metrics, and mate, pattern, feature, reference, and rebuild relationships. Quickly understand performance bottlenecks and the most impactful improvements without manually inspecting every component.
Engineering Guidance
Image Generation
Create renderings from your current SOLIDWORKS model through natural language, describing the output you want without navigating rendering settings manually. Describe your desired render settings to LEO in natural language, including job name, denoiser status, resolution, and others. LEO leverages SOLIDWORKS Visualize to create photorealistic renderings without manually configuring each setting. The SOLIDWORKS Visualize add-in must be enabled to create the rendering.
Integrated Command Guidance
Solve SOLIDWORKS modeling problems faster and avoid rework by getting step-by-step guidance on the right features, mates, evaluation tools, and drawing methods for your design.
Pattern Generation
Ask LEO to create a pattern of a feature by describing the spacing and layout you want, or get suggested pattern limits and spacing automatically.
Enhanced Natural Language Selection
Quickly isolate the exact design geometry or information you need across parts, assemblies, drawings, and sketches, even with complex selection criteria, without manually hunting through trees, filters, or crowded graphics areas.
Enhanced Surface Area Reporting
Ask LEO to calculate the surface area for an entire part, a specific set of faces or bodies, or faces grouped by color or feature type, ideal for estimating paint or coating coverage. Get results faster than manually filtering, selecting, and running the Measure tool.
Design Parameterization
Design more robust models by creating equations, relationships, parameters, and conditional design behaviors from natural-language intent, instead of consulting reference documentation.
Assisted Feature Tree Organization
Identify unused or non-contributing features in your model and remove or organize them automatically. Describe how you want features grouped, such as by reference geometry or fillets, and let LEO organize the feature tree instantly instead of building folders by hand.
