AI-assisted CAD operations
Your assistant creates sketches, features, assemblies and drawings through the SOLIDWORKS API. The results are native features you can edit like any other.
Intelligence by KEVOS
Turn engineering intent into CAD.
Connect your AI assistant to your CAD environment. Create, modify and automate engineering models in natural language, while your design files stay in your own workflow.
Your AI assistant
Make a 60 x 40 x 8 mm mounting plate with four M5 clearance holes, 6 mm in from each corner.
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SOLIDWORKS on your computer
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Why CADOS
Engineering intent in, native CAD out.
AI assistants are good at understanding what you mean. CADOS gives them a safe, checked way to act on it in the CAD software your team already uses.
Engineering in plain language
Describe the part, the change or the check. CADOS turns it into dimensioned operations and reports what it did.
Works with your existing files
Open your own parts and assemblies, read their features and dimensions, and change parameters, equations and drawings.
Runs in your own CAD environment
SOLIDWORKS runs on your computer, with your licence and your templates. Your model files are saved there.
Less repetitive work
Batches of features, standard fasteners, drawings with standard views and exports, in one request instead of many clicks.
One connected workflow
One account links your AI assistant, your computers and their CAD sessions, with live status you can see.
How it works
Three parts, one connection.
Your assistant talks to the CADOS service. A small Windows app on your CAD computer holds a secure link to it and hands each command to SOLIDWORKS.
Cloud
Your AI assistant
Claude, ChatGPT or another app that supports MCP connectors.
CADOS service
CADOS gateway
Sign-in, your computers, command routing and checks. Every sketch is solved and every feature checked before it is sent.
Your computer
CADOS for SOLIDWORKS
- KEVOS Companion: secure link, pairing, status
- CADOS add-in: tab, task pane, runs each command
- SOLIDWORKS: your files, your licence
Install CADOS for SOLIDWORKS
Run the installer on the Windows computer that runs SOLIDWORKS, and pair that computer with your account.
Connect your AI assistant
Add the CADOS connector address to your assistant and sign in once.
Work in your CAD environment
Ask for parts, changes, drawings and checks. Watch them appear in SOLIDWORKS.
Download
CADOS for SOLIDWORKS
A native SOLIDWORKS add-in for Windows, installed with one installer. It appears in Tools > Add-Ins and adds a CADOS tab, menu and task pane to SOLIDWORKS.
Sign in with your CADOS account to download. No account yet? Create one, or ask your administrator.
What the installer adds
- CADOS add-in for SOLIDWORKS: the CADOS tab, menu and task pane, and the commands your assistant sends.
- KEVOS Companion: pairs the computer with your account and keeps the secure link. Starts with Windows.
- Registration with every SOLIDWORKS version on the computer. No files to copy, no registry to edit.
- Clean removal from Windows Settings > Apps. Your CAD files are never changed.
InstallerWindows .msi, 64-bit
Windows10 (1903 or later) or 11
SOLIDWORKS2022 or later, 64-bit
Early access. The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows may ask you to confirm it. Validation on SOLIDWORKS installations is in progress: run the self test on each computer.
Integrations
Built on open standards, connected to the tools you use.
CADOS uses the Model Context Protocol, the open standard AI assistants use to reach tools.
SOLIDWORKS
A native add-in: listed in Tools > Add-Ins, with a CADOS tab, menu and task pane. Parts, assemblies and drawings through the SOLIDWORKS API.
Claude
Add CADOS as a custom connector and sign in. Claude Desktop can also use a private address.
ChatGPT
Add CADOS as a custom connector where your ChatGPT plan allows custom connectors.
Other MCP clients
Any client that supports remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or a private address.
SOLIDWORKS is the CAD integration available today. CADOS is in early access: the integration is being validated on more SOLIDWORKS installations.
Capabilities
What your assistant can do in SOLIDWORKS.
Each capability is a CADOS tool your assistant calls. Sketches are solved and features checked before SOLIDWORKS builds them.
Parts
Sketches with relations and dimensions, solved before they reach SOLIDWORKS; over-defined sketches are refused. Extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, hole, fillet, chamfer, shell, draft, mirror, linear and circular patterns, reference planes.
Assemblies
Insert components, add mates, find mate candidates and check interference. ISO screws, nuts, washers and ball bearings made to size.
Drawings
Native .SLDDRW drawings with standard or named views, preferred scales, model dimensions and title block fields. Add section, detail and projected views, notes and a bill of materials.
Inspection
Read the feature tree, sketches and dimensions. Measure faces, edges and points, inspect the design and take preview images.
Parameters
Set global variables and equations, so a design stays driven by the values that matter.
Files
Import STEP, IGES and Parasolid files. Export STEP, STL, Parasolid, IGES, PDF, DWG and DXF. Save and save as.
Control
Undo, delete, follow a long command's progress and cancel it. A guided self test checks each computer.
Several computers
Pair more than one computer, set a default, and tell the assistant which one to use.
Security and architecture
Clear about what runs where.
SOLIDWORKS and your files stay on your computer. The CADOS gateway is a hosted service that signs you in, routes commands and checks them. CADOS is not a local-only product, and it does not pretend to be.
Outbound connections only
Your computer connects out to the CADOS service over HTTPS. It opens no ports and accepts no incoming connections.
Signed-in AI assistants
Assistants sign in with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE. You approve each one on a consent page and can disconnect it at any time.
A key for each computer
Pairing makes a key in the Windows key store, on the TPM where there is one. It cannot be exported. Every request from the computer is signed with it.
Signed commands
The CADOS service signs every command. The computer checks the signature before SOLIDWORKS sees anything.
You confirm destructive changes
Deleting features, undoing, overwriting a file or replacing a drawing asks you in SOLIDWORKS first. No answer means no.
Clear about what passes through
Commands, results and short-lived geometry copies used for checks pass through the CADOS service. Your model files stay on your computer.
Getting started
Up and running in five steps.
Install CADOS for SOLIDWORKS
Run the Windows installer on the computer that runs SOLIDWORKS.
Open SOLIDWORKS and activate CADOS
Pair the computer with your account. The CADOS tab and task pane appear in SOLIDWORKS.
Connect your AI assistant
Copy the connector address from the CAD Assistant page into your assistant and sign in.
Verify the connection
Your dashboard shows each part of the connection live.
Run the guided self test
One prompt checks sketches, features, an assembly and a drawing on that computer.
Bring your AI assistant into SOLIDWORKS.
Install the add-in, then sign in to your dashboard for your connector address and live status.