solidworks-automation-skill

Why we included this project

Mechanical design teams who want an AI coding agent to actually drive SolidWorks or AutoCAD on a Windows machine will find this toolkit useful. It wraps the SolidWorks COM API into local MCP tools and a Skill package, so clients like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Windsurf can create parts, build assemblies, add mates, and run motion studies from natural-language requests, then export STEP, STL, DXF, or PDF. What stands out is the honesty about reliability: capabilities.yaml is the single source of truth for what is verified, and FEA, routing, and complex surfaces sit behind a pilot flag that still needs human review rather than being sold as turnkey. For a CAD pipeline, where silent failures are costly, that restraint matters. The project also includes a headless open-format backend that writes STEP, IGES, and DXF without SolidWorks installed, plus a desktop CAD Studio for managing jobs, previews, and diagnostics, so teams can test agent-driven CAD automation before committing to a full workflow.