SOLIDWORKS AI & Concile AI
SOLIDWORKS now ships with two AI companions — AURA for knowledge and LEO for engineering work — on top of the assistive features already built into the interface. Concile is the partner that goes further: we configure the companions for your process and build customer-specific agents on top of them, so the AI knows your standards, your products and your rules.
Request a QuoteBook a DemoThree layers of AI, one design environment
The first layer runs locally and costs nothing: command prediction, selection accelerators, sketch and mate repair, fastener recognition and automatic drawing generation, all inside SOLIDWORKS Design. The second layer is the Virtual Companions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform: AURA answers questions about the open model and your company knowledge; LEO does engineering work — generates assembly structures, diagnoses what is wrong with a model, turns a prompt into a drawing, rebuilds a dumb STEP file into parametric features. The third layer is Concile’s: agents we build for a specific customer that encode their design rules, release checks and manufacturing constraints. In every layer the engineer reviews and decides; the AI proposes.
- Command Predictor and selection accelerators learn how you work
- Fastener recognition and pattern assistance on imported hardware
- AutoGenerate Drawing: views, dimensions and hole callouts in one step
- AURA: context-aware answers, citing your own wikis and communities
- LEO: assembly structure generation and What’s Wrong analysis
- LEO: prompt-to-drawing and STEP-to-parametric (Intent-to-CAD)
- Performance analysis, auto-explode, macro generation, nesting to DXF
- Customer data never used for training without written approval
What changes when the busywork is proposed, not typed
Hours per engineer per week
Drawing views, hardware insertion, assembly skeletons and model diagnostics are the repetitive half of a design job. Proposing them automatically gives the hours back to design.
Answers without the search
AURA reads the open model and your company’s own knowledge base, so ‘what standard applies here’ or ‘why was this changed’ is a question in a side panel, not a hunt.
Your rules, enforced
Concile agents turn tribal knowledge — this bracket always gets that fillet, this customer wants that drawing format — into checks that run before release.
Built-in, companions and Concile agents
Everything in the first two columns is included with a current SOLIDWORKS Design licence on subscription with Cloud Services active; companion usage is metered in Blue Tokens. Concile AI is scoped and priced per customer.
Assistive features in SOLIDWORKS Design
Runs on your workstation with no cloud dependency.
- Command Predictor, selection accelerators
- Sketch relation and mate reference repair
- Fastener recognition, pattern and simplification
- Silhouette defeature
- AutoGenerate Drawing
AURA
The engineer’s reference desk.
- Answers about the active model and project, with citations
- Summarises reviews, documents and community threads
- Searches your 3DSwym wikis and company knowledge
- Available in SOLIDWORKS and in the browser
LEO
Does the work, you approve it.
- Generate assembly structure from a description
- What’s Wrong analysis and model insights
- Prompt-to-drawing and drawing refinement
- STEP/IGES to parametric features (Intent-to-CAD)
- Assembly performance fixes, auto-explode, hole alignment, macros
Concile AI agents
Built on the companions and the SOLIDWORKS API for your process.
- Design-rule and release checkers trained on your standards
- Configurators that turn a quote into models, drawings and BOM
- Legacy-data recovery at scale (drawings and dumb solids)
- Manufacturing-readiness review before release
- Delivered as add-ins or 3DEXPERIENCE apps
| Capability | Built-inlocal | AURAcloud | LEOcloud | Concile AIcustom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modelling | ||||
| Command and selection prediction | ||||
| Fastener recognition and simplification | ||||
| Assembly structure generation | ||||
| STEP to parametric features | ||||
| Drawings & documentation | ||||
| AutoGenerate Drawing | ||||
| Prompt-to-drawing and refinement | ||||
| Company drawing-standard enforcement | ||||
| Diagnosis & knowledge | ||||
| What’s Wrong analysis | ||||
| Context-aware Q&A with citations | ||||
| Company knowledge search | ||||
| Process | ||||
| Change-impact analysis | ||||
| Release and manufacturability checks on your rules | ||||
| Quote-to-model configurators | ||||
Companion skills are released progressively through 2026 and SOLIDWORKS 2027; availability depends on release level and region. Academic, student and maker licences are excluded from the initial token rollout.
Concile AI: the solution-partner side of what we do
We are an AI company that happens to know SOLIDWORKS to the API level, and a SOLIDWORKS partner that happens to build AI. That combination is what lets us turn an engineering intent — make this manufacturable, get this ready for release, why is this failing — into completed work inside the tools your engineers already use.
- Workflow discovery: where the hours go, which decisions are rules and which need judgement
- Companion enablement: tokens, Cloud Services, 3DSwym knowledge base seeded with your standards
- Agent design and build on the SOLIDWORKS API and 3DEXPERIENCE platform
- Pilot on one product family with measured before/after hours
- Deployment as add-in or platform app; training; monitoring and tuning
- Governance: every proposal is reviewed by an engineer; data stays in your tenant
Questions we get asked most
Is SOLIDWORKS AI an extra licence?
No. The companions are included with commercial SOLIDWORKS Design licences (named-user or device with Cloud Services), 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, Collaborative Designer and xDesign. Usage is metered in Blue Tokens; each eligible user starts with an allocation and token packs can be added.
What are Blue Tokens?
The platform’s unit of AI consumption, pooled at company level. A quick insight costs a token or two; generating a drawing or rebuilding a STEP file costs more. Administrators see consumption in the control centre and can buy yearly packs.
Does the AI see our designs? Are they used for training?
Companions run on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform within your tenant. Dassault Systèmes states that customer data is not used to train models without written approval; defaults are trained on proprietary and synthetic data. Details are in the 3DS Trust Center.
Can it design a part from a sentence?
Not a finished part. LEO can generate an assembly structure, produce a drawing from a prompt and convert dumb geometry into features. Full generative design from a specification is on the roadmap. Concile configurators are the practical route today for rules-driven products.
What do we need to turn it on?
The latest service pack, Cloud Services activated, the platform connector running and an internet session. We enable and test it as part of any Design deployment.
What does Concile build that DS doesn’t?
Agents that know your company: standards checkers, release gates, quote-to-model configurators, legacy recovery pipelines. DS ships general capability; we encode your specific rules on top of it.
Where do we start?
With a workflow discovery call. We look at one product family, find the repetitive hours, and propose the smallest pilot that proves the saving.
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Licences are supplied through MSD Facilitators and Ekspe Software Services LLP, our Authorised Dassault Systèmes Partner companies; implementation, automation and support come from Concile engineers in India and the UAE.
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