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What is Onshape AI Advisor?

Onshape AI Advisor is your go-to resource for quick and reliable answers about Onshape's powerful cloud-native CAD and PDM platform. It allows users to ask questions in a natural way and uses artificial intelligence grounded with Onshape's library of training materials to create a natural-language response.


Key Features

Natural Language Assistance

Users can ask design-related questions in simple, conversational language. AI Advisor understands context and provides accurate, relevant answers, reducing the need to manually search through documentation or contact customer support for assistance.

Smart Documentation

AI Advisor pulls insights from Onshape’s extensive library of documentation and tutorial videos, offering direct answers along with links to deeper learning resources. These links help verify the findings, reassuring the user the recommendation is properly vetted.

Built-in PDM Versioning of Drawings in Onshape.

Context-Aware Recommendations

Based on the user’s conversation history, the AI Advisor suggests best practices, relevant features, or troubleshooting tips, helping to shorten workflows and improve efficiency.

New Solutions to Old Product Development Problems

Manufacturers strive to bring high-quality, innovative products to market quickly. However, traditional file-based CAD makes this increasingly difficult. To stay ahead, companies need modern tools. This eBook explores four key challenges and how Onshape’s cloud-native platform helps overcome them.

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Got Questions?

For more answers or to ask a question yourself head over to the Onshape Forum.

Like any AI chat tool, AI Advisor provides helpful guidance based on Onshape’s official documentation and training materials. While it aims for accuracy, users should always cross-check critical design decisions with Onshape’s help resources or experts to ensure the best results.

Yes! AI Advisor offers structured responses and links to tutorials or videos for in-depth learning. While it can break down processes, it may not fully replace guided training for highly advanced workflows. We encourage you to ask AI Advisor for guidance the next time you experience a new design challenge.

Yes, with your feedback, the AI Advisor answer quality will improve over time. In addition, as new documentation is created and ingested, its output will improve related to these new findings. Additionally, there are plans to expand the tool's capabilities to handle more complexity. Stay tuned.

While it excels at answering general design questions and pointing to documentation, it does not generate designs, predict errors in real time, or make complex engineering decisions. Users should still rely on expertise and testing for critical design work.

AI Advisor does not currently support generative design. However, as AI capabilities continue to evolve, expanding its functionality in this area is something we’re actively considering for the future. Stay tuned.

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