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Building a DN80 flange from one sentence
One sentence, a 4-step plan, a finished flange in SOLIDWORKS with its mass checked against a hand calculation.
ReadHow imCAD follows your company's standards
imCAD's knowledge comes in four tiers: Foundation, Standard workflows, Modules, Enterprise. Your company's own way always wins.
Choosing an AI brain for imCAD: Claude or ChatGPT?
imCAD runs on your own AI account. Which plan you need, how to set it up, and how to switch.
Building parts from a PDF drawing or a sketch photo
Drop a drawing or a photo of a sketch into the chat; imCAD reads the dimensions and rebuilds it as an editable SOLIDWORKS model.
Background tasks: imCAD works, you keep designing
Long jobs like drawings for a whole folder or STEP export for a project run in a background SOLIDWORKS, leaving your window free.
5 tips for writing requests imCAD gets right the first time
Write requests for imCAD the way you would brief a new engineer: full dimensions, a clear origin, one job at a time.
What is imCAD? An AI modeling assistant inside your CAD software
Intelligent Modeling CAD: you describe, imCAD plans, lets you review, then builds parts, assemblies and drawings in SOLIDWORKS.
Why imCAD lets you review before it builds
Three approval levels, a sketch before building, undo for the whole turn. The AI never changes your model on its own.
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