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CAD and SolidWorks automation
Inteloflow automates repetitive SolidWorks work: live model edits, BOM property fills, drawing and PDF exports, and full design pipelines driven from customer PDFs with AI vision. Engineers keep control through review gates at every step, and the automation never touches their own working session.
Scoped around your part families and workflow, not a generic template. Fixed-price after a scoping call. No hourly billing.
What we build
- Design pipelines that take a change kit from customer PDF to modified parts, linked equations, and filled BOM properties
- AI-vision extraction that reads device drawings into schema-validated dimensions, cross-checked before any write
- SolidWorks COM automation with safety gates: read-only, equation-driven, and suppressed flags respected, rebuilds verified
- Batch property and quantity tools that work on closed files, with no SolidWorks session required
- Background processing in a hidden SolidWorks instance, so the engineer's own session is never touched
Proven in production
A semiconductor change-kit pipeline spanning 200+ parts and 10+ assemblies took design work from 1-2 days toward 1-2 hours per kit, with engineer review at every gate.
Read the case study: End-to-end CAD design automationCommon questions
How much does SolidWorks automation cost?
Projects start at $4,000 USD for a well-scoped automation of one repetitive workflow. Full multi-stage pipelines with AI-assisted extraction are quoted as a fixed-price scope after we see your parts and process.
Will automation interfere with our engineers' SolidWorks sessions?
No. Long-running work executes in a hidden SolidWorks instance connected by process ID, and batch property edits run on closed files through the Document Manager API. Engineers keep working normally.
Do engineers stay in control of the output?
Yes. Pipelines are built with human-review gates: extracted dimensions are checked against plausibility bands and confirmed by an engineer before any model is modified, and each stage can be run independently.
Which SolidWorks APIs do you use?
The COM API for live model work, the Document Manager API for closed-file property and quantity edits, and C#/.NET add-ins where deeper integration is needed, including an MCP bridge that lets AI read live model state.
Not sure if this fits your process?
Send us your worst manual process and get a personal Loom walkthrough back showing how we would automate it, free.