These enhancements apply to SOLIDWORKS Design Standard/Professional/Premium/Ultimate and SOLIDWORKS Design Standard/Professional/Premium/Ultimate with Cloud Services.

All AI capabilities listed below are in Beta state as of July 11, 2026. Features are subject to being removed from Beta at any future release.

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• Drawings for modified parts and assemblies update in the background, eliminating manual rebuilds and keeping design work moving.
• Speed up placement of complete fastener stacks, like bolts, washers, and nuts, as Pattern Assistant recognizes related components and assembles them automatically.
• Improve assembly performance with AI that automatically suppresses 3D modeled threads on fasteners.
• Generate step-by-step assembly instructions with visual snapshots, powered by AI, for manufacturing, service, and training use.
• Collaborate across company boundaries on shared SOLIDWORKS projects with improvements based on user feedback, making it easier to share data, manage access, and work alongside external partners on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
• Keep platform data instantly in sync as every local save updates in the background, bypassing manual PLM dialogs and eliminating extra clicks.

AI: Intent to CAD

Convert BREP Geometry to Parametric Models

Transform imported BREP geometry into fully editable parametric models to unlock greater design flexibility. Convert “dumb” geometry into feature-based designs that you can modify, refine, and reuse for future iterations. Use this capability to accelerate design changes, support reverse engineering workflows, and extend the value of existing CAD data. Invoke the conversion directly through LEO, the virtual companion, to streamline the process and reduce the effort required to prepare models for editing.

AI: Engineering Guidance

Generate SOLIDWORKS Macros

Create custom automations in SOLIDWORKS using simple, natural language prompts. Describe the task you want to automate, and LEO, the virtual companion, will generate a VBA macro for you and open it directly in the editor. Review and run the macro immediately, or continue the conversation with LEO to refine and improve it. Reduce the need for manual coding, speed up repetitive tasks, and make automation accessible to users of all experience levels.

Surface Area Report

Ask LEO to calculate the surface area of an entire part, specific faces, colored face groups, or selected bodies, returning results for painting, coating, or surface treatment planning. Scope the calculation by color, visibility, or manual selection to get the exact number you need without manual measurement.

Scale Assist

Ask LEO to rescale your design to a new target size, regenerating dimensions so they reflect the new scale rather than the original values. Reuse drawing dimensions accurately after rescaling, without the stale-dimension problem that comes from using a scale feature at the end of the tree.

Material Appearance Manager

Accelerate design exploration and model understanding by identifying, highlighting, and updating features through natural language requests.

Natural Language Selection

Work faster by telling LEO what you want to select instead of manually picking items one by one. Quickly isolate the design elements you need across parts, sketches, assemblies, and drawings, then continue your workflow with fewer clicks, less searching, and fewer selection mistakes.

PLM Model Insights

Ask LEO questions about a file's configurations, open tasks, and change management history through a conversational interface, without navigating separate PDM or PLM views. Get answers about revision context, pending approvals, and configuration details directly within SOLIDWORKS.

Equation Assistant

Create and edit SOLIDWORKS equations by describing your intent to LEO, which helps with syntax, corrects formula errors, and guides you through the equations dialog through conversation. Reduce the time spent learning equation syntax and troubleshooting formula mistakes.

Expert SOLIDWORKS Guidance

Make better modeling decisions with CSWA-level guidance that brings SOLIDWORKS best practices into your design workflow on demand.

AI: Manufacturing Documentation

AI Drawing Creation and Refinement

Create complete, production-ready drawings by describing your intent to LEO rather than navigating dialog boxes and PropertyManager options. Define views, annotations, and sheet layout through conversation, refine the result iteratively, and export or print without leaving the conversational workflow. This reduces the manual setup and adjustment work that makes drawing creation one of the most time-consuming steps in product documentation.

This workflow is enabled by the following enhancements:

• Natural Language Drawing View Creation: Create, place, and modify drawing views by describing your intent to LEO, including view style, scale, position, and line weight settings
• Natural Language Drawing Annotation Control: Create and modify annotations by describing them to LEO, covering attachment points, display properties, font, leader style, and placement on the sheet or within a view
• Drawing View Manipulation: Reposition views with precise distances, align them relative to other views, or rotate, scale, and remove them through conversation
• Flat Pattern Views and Bend Tables: Generate flat patterns for sheet metal parts, create bend tables, include them in drawing sheets, and export to DXF or PDF or print through conversation
   

Assembly Instruction Generation

Ask LEO to generate step-by-step assembly instructions with visual snapshots for manufacturing, service, and training use.

AI: Assembly Optimization

AI Large Assembly Management

Optimize large assemblies faster by asking LEO to simplify heavy geometry and recommend the right lightweight representation strategy through conversation. LEO helps you reduce assembly complexity without manually inspecting every component or navigating multiple SOLIDWORKS commands. This improves assembly performance while preserving design intent, drawing representation, and downstream usability.

This workflow is enabled by the following enhancements:

• Thread Simplification: Convert modeled threads on imported fasteners and assembly components to cosmetic equivalents with LEO's assistance, reducing assembly file size and improving performance without losing thread representation in drawings. Apply the conversion across the entire assembly in a single guided operation.
• AI-Guided SpeedPak Creation: Create lighter assemblies faster by asking LEO to recommend and generate the right SpeedPak strategy at the top level or at the subassembly level through conversation, based on assembly structure, component usage, and performance needs.

Assembly Error Diagnosis

Fix assembly errors faster. LEO identifies the root cause of model, mate, and component failures and walks you through the repair, so you spend less time manually tracing every warning.

Parts, Assemblies, Drawings

Edit Parts in Large Design Review (LDR)

Large Design Review (LDR) is the fastest way to open, review, and work on extremely large assemblies. Edit parts in Large Design Review (LDR) mode without resolving the assembly. The full assembly stays visible while you work, so you can make part edits in context.

Background Drawing Updates

Update drawings of modified parts and assemblies in the background, and continue working while the drawing regenerates. Reduce the time spent waiting for drawing updates on complex assemblies.

Family Table Improvements

A new System Option lets you automatically match dimension names to Family Table columns.  In addition, you can replace models with their associated Family Tables in drawings, reducing manual updates and keeping configuration data consistent.

Fastener Pattern Assistant

Create fastener patterns faster by detecting clustered components that belong together and adding them to the pattern automatically, reducing the time spent manually identifying and selecting every related fastener.

Assembly Visualization Appearance and Lightweight Performance

Audit and manage assembly appearance data directly in Assembly Visualization, reducing the need to inspect components individually. In addition, improved lightweight performance reduces load times for models with many appearances.

Rendering

UV Unwrapping and Editing

Achieve more realistic visuals with UV unwrapping and editing, giving you precise control over how textures wrap around 3D models and reducing distortion.

Collaboration and Data Management

One-Click Recommended Platform Settings

Apply SOLIDWORKS-recommended platform settings for new tenants in a single step from the Welcome app, reducing onboarding time and ensuring consistent configuration across new SOLIDWORKS deployments on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Cross-Company Collaboration Improvements

Collaborate across company boundaries on shared SOLIDWORKS projects with improvements based on user feedback, making it easier to share data, manage access, and work alongside external partners on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Composed Drawings in MySession

Access drawings faster by linking physical products directly to their drawing files through a composed representation relationship, simplifying cross-referencing and lifecycle management.

Auto Save to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Every local save now syncs automatically to the platform in the background, with no extra clicks or PLM dialog interruptions. Lock your file once, and from there every Ctrl+S keeps your platform data instantly in sync. 

Maturity Change Save Prompt

Protect design integrity with automatic prompts to save local, unsaved work before committing maturity state changes, preventing data loss during lifecycle transitions.

Multi-Product Cut-List Publishing

Publish weldment cut-list items across multiple physical products simultaneously on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, expanding manufacturing data coverage without repeating the process for each product.

Enterprise Item Number Display for Deformed Objects

Keep Enterprise Item Number values for deformed objects accurate in the FeatureManager Design Tree and BOM, preventing incorrect EIN data from appearing in downstream documentation.

Iteration Comment Management

Keep iteration comments anchored to their respective file iterations, ensuring accurate search, sorting, and comparison across the lifecycle.

Save Only Loaded Files

Accelerate design iterations by saving only locked components and mandatory dependencies, eliminating unintended modifications to unrelated assembly files.

Local Cache Repair

Prevent file opening errors and sync failures with alerts for incomplete local caches and context-menu repair actions available directly in the Task Pane.

Missing Reference Replacement with Platform Files

Replace missing components with files on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, restoring assembly references and reducing design interruptions without manual relinking.

Task Creation in SOLIDWORKS Design

Accelerate collaboration across design and project teams by creating tasks directly from within SOLIDWORKS Design, without switching to a separate project management environment.

Duplicate Reference Detection on the Platform

Ensure design accuracy by detecting duplicate references and validating existing platform content before saving, preventing conflicts before they affect downstream work.

3DEXPERIENCE Dashboard Access

Open preferred applications, customize workspace layouts, and review projects on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform without switching environments.