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What AI-native CAD actually means (and what it doesn't)
Every CAD vendor claims to be AI-native now. Most of them are bolting a chatbot onto a twenty-year-old codebase. Here's what AI-native should mean and what it actually means.
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SolidWorks AURA AI: a first look
AURA is Dassault's AI companion for SolidWorks 2026. You can talk to it, type to it, and sometimes it does what you meant.
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SolidWorks 2026 AI features: AURA, LEO, and whether any of it works
SolidWorks 2026 ships with AI companions called AURA and LEO plus a handful of other AI features. Some of them are useful. Some of them are branding exercises.
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Onshape AI Advisor: what PTC shipped and what it missed
Onshape AI Advisor has been live since October 2025. It gives real-time guidance while you model. Some of it is helpful. Some of it is like a backseat driver who read the manual once.
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Siemens NX AI Chat: enterprise AI meets CAD
Siemens added AI chat to NX. It works the way enterprise software usually works: carefully, slowly, and with a lot of infrastructure underneath.
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Fusion 360 Text to Command: natural language meets feature trees
Text to Command lets you tell Fusion 360 what to do in plain English instead of clicking through menus. It's a different idea from text-to-CAD, and it solves a different problem.
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Fusion 360 Neural CAD: what Autodesk is actually building
Neural CAD is Autodesk's attempt at text-to-geometry inside Fusion 360. It was announced at AU 2025. As of early 2026, you still can't use it.
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Creo AI Assistant: PTC's quiet bet
PTC added an AI assistant to Creo that helps with error troubleshooting and design guidance. It doesn't make headlines, but it solves a specific problem.
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Fusion 360 AI features: what's shipping and what's vapor
Autodesk has announced a lot of AI features for Fusion 360. Some of them are real. Some of them are slide deck material. Here's the honest status.
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Autodesk Assistant AI: what it can and can't do
Autodesk Assistant is the AI chat feature built into Fusion 360 and other Autodesk products. It can answer questions and find commands. It cannot model for you.