Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.
DesignSolidWorks 3D Experience (3D Creator / Design Assistant)
The software uses machine learning to analyze surrounding geometry and sketch history, automatically suggesting repetitive actions like placing holes in multiple corners to speed up the sketching process.
“So what we've done with machine learning is inside 3D creator, and 3D sculptor, when you're sketching something, it actually looks at the surrounding geometry. … So we're just automating what you're most likely to do next, in the sketch environment.”
DesignSolidWorks 3D Experience (3D Creator)
The cloud-based application uses machine learning to learn from user selection patterns (edge length, direction, hidden features) to refine suggestions for selecting groups of edges or faces, making the tool more intelligent over time.
“So we do a little bit more there. If you click on an edge, we actually look at the length of the edge, the direction, whether there's other edges that are in different directions that are the same length or similar edges. … so we can, we can actually learn from what you've done in the past as well. So it gets more intelligent.”
DesignSolidWorks 3D Experience (3D Creator - Design Guidance)
The generative design tool generates optimized shapes based on user-defined forces and constraints, providing hints on average weights and forces to guide the creation of material-efficient structures.
“So it basically you can start with nothing. You can just start with a couple of sketches and some forces and we even give you hints as to what forces you should be using. … and it will go off and generate a guided kind of shape to say that this is where you want the material to go at the very kind of minimum.”
DesignSolidWorks 3D Experience (Function Driven Generative Design)
The tool generates shapes optimized for specific manufacturing processes (like 3D printing without supports, machining, or casting) by applying manufacturing rules to the generative design algorithm.
“And within that, you can actually specify a manufacturing process. So, if you wanted to 3D print it without support structures, you can say I want to 3D print it, but make sure there's no overhangs beyond this angle, and it will generate the the shape that that you want that that is still manufacturable.”