CADCoPilot Help

Guides and example prompts for getting the most out of your AI CAD assistant.

CADCoPilot is an AI assistant for SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, Siemens NX, Solid Edge and AutoCAD. A small desktop agent floats beside your CAD window: you describe what you want in plain language, and CoPilot executes real CAD operations in the open document — creating parts, adding features, producing drawings, building assemblies and answering questions about your models.

Choose your CAD system

Installation, where to find CoPilot, and the CAD-specific features (macros, journals, data management) live on each system's page.

SOLIDWORKS

Add-in installation, macro management and SOLIDWORKS PDM connectivity.

Autodesk Inventor

Ribbon add-in, iLogic/VBA macros and Autodesk Vault connectivity.

Siemens NX

Ribbon and menu commands, and NX journal management.

Solid Edge

The CoPilot ribbon tab and Solid Edge macros.

AutoCAD

2D drafting, blocks, xrefs, layers, drafting symbols and plotting — and what is deliberately not available.

Learn the features

These work the same way in every CAD system.

The Desktop Agent

The floating balloon, the quick ask bar, the chat card, the Target box and the tray.

Chat Basics

How to talk to CoPilot, live tool execution, screenshots and exporting a chat.

Examples

Ten worked use cases, from a first part to batch edits, families of sizes and marking up a screenshot.

Industry Use Cases

Fourteen rule-governed parts across aerospace, marine, casting, plastics and more — run and measured on all four CAD systems.

Part Modeling

Worked examples: plates, holes, fillets, patterns, feature edits and model queries.

Drawings & Dimensions

Create engineering drawings by chat, with auto-layout views and validated dimensions.

Assemblies

Insert and mate components, replace components, and run BOM and interference queries.

Showing & Hiding

Hide and show components, bodies, planes, views and annotations — and NX layers — with read-back-verified results.

Markup Board

Draw on a CAD screenshot, an image or a PDF page and send it to CoPilot — a circle can become the actual face.

Skills

Reusable, named instructions you and your team can save and invoke by name.

Macros

Record what you did as a .cadmacro script and run it over a folder or a spreadsheet — with no AI model in the run.

Variations

Capture what drives a design, fill in a grid of named instances, and generate them all at once.

Native Macros & Automation

Your CAD system's own macros and journals, the Automation Hub, and scheduled tasks.

Spending Fewer Tokens

Where the cost of an AI conversation really goes, and the habits that cut it.

Knowledge Base

The Index Document button, how indexing works, and what CoPilot remembers.

Feature Tree Translation

Extract a part's feature tree and recreate it in another CAD system, or transfer via STEP.

Simulation & FEA

Set up and solve stress, frequency, buckling and thermal studies by chat, and export a report.

Setup & account

Getting Started

Install the add-in for your CAD system, sign in and run your first prompt.

Sign In & Out

Signing in with your organization account, staying connected and signing out.

Settings & Languages

Every setting in the dialog, plus switching between the 12 supported UI languages.

Channels & Messaging

Chat with your CAD workstation from Telegram, WhatsApp or Microsoft Teams.

The web portal

Everything CADCoPilot does outside the CAD window — in a browser, no installation needed.

Data management

SOLIDWORKS PDM

Connect to your PDM vault and check files in and out from chat.

Autodesk Vault

Connect Inventor to Autodesk Vault and manage files from chat.

For administrators

Organization Admin Guide

The org portal, AI keys, enabling channels, connections and your knowledge base.

Connections (ERP & Email)

Let chat reach your ERP, CRM or email — worked setups for Dynamics 365, SAP, Salesforce, SendGrid and more.