SolidWorks MCP Server 🔧

Automate SolidWorks using natural language through Claude AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

🎯 What is This?

SolidWorks MCP Server is a production-ready Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude AI control SolidWorks through natural language. Instead of manually clicking through menus, you simply tell Claude what to design — and it builds it for you.

Example prompts you can use:

• "Create a new part, draw a circle with radius 30mm and extrude it 15mm"

• "Add a fillet of 2mm to all edges"

• "Draw a hexagon and cut extrude it 10mm"

• "List all features in the current part"

Related MCP server: SolidWorks MCP Server

✨ Features

• ✅ 22 Tools covering parts, sketches, features, and utilities

• ✅ SolidWorks 2023–2025 Compatible with version-aware API fallbacks

• ✅ Auto-detects SolidWorks installation via Windows registry

• ✅ Multi-unit support — mm, cm, inch, meter, foot

• ✅ Modular architecture — clean, extensible Python package

• ✅ Robust error handling — cascading fallback chains for COM API

• ✅ JSON configuration — easy to customize without touching code

• ✅ Comprehensive logging — full debug output for troubleshooting

🛠️ Available Tools

📋 Requirements

• OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11

• SolidWorks: 2023, 2024, or 2025 (must be installed and licensed)

• Python: 3.10 or higher

• Claude: Claude Desktop app or Claude Code

⚡ Quick Start

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/alisamsam/solidworks-mcp.git
cd solidworks-mcp

2. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configure Claude Desktop

Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json:

Location: C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "solidworks": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["C:\\path\\to\\solidworks-mcp\\solidworks_mcp_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

4. Launch

1. Open SolidWorks first

2. Restart Claude Desktop

3. In Claude, type: "Connect to SolidWorks"

4. Start designing! 🎉

📁 Project Structure

solidworks-mcp/
├── solidworks_mcp_server.py      # Entry point
├── solidworks_mcp/               # Main package
│   ├── __init__.py              # Package exports (v3.0.0)
│   ├── server.py                # MCP server & tool definitions
│   ├── config.py                # Configuration management
│   ├── config.json              # Default settings
│   ├── constants.py             # SolidWorks constants & enums
│   ├── automation/              # Core automation modules
│   │   ├── base.py             # Connection management
│   │   ├── documents.py        # Document operations
│   │   ├── sketches.py         # Sketch operations
│   │   └── features.py         # Feature operations (SW 2025 fixed)
│   └── utils/                   # Utility modules
│       ├── units.py            # Unit conversion system
│       └── sw_finder.py        # Auto-detect SolidWorks
├── requirements.txt
├── .gitignore
└── DEVELOPMENT_ROADMAP.md       # Future development plan

⚙️ Configuration

Edit solidworks_mcp/config.json to customize behavior:

{
  "exe_path": "auto",
  "default_unit": "mm",
  "startup_timeout": 120,
  "log_level": "INFO",
  "default_extrude_depth": 10.0,
  "default_fillet_radius": 2.0
}

🔧 SolidWorks 2025 Compatibility

This server includes special handling for SolidWorks 2025 API changes:

• Extrusion fallback chain: FeatureExtrusion3 → FeatureExtrusion2 → FeatureBossSimple

• Safe property access for feat.Name, feat.GetTypeName2(), IsSuppressed2()

• stdout capture fix for execute_python tool

• Registry-based SolidWorks auto-detection

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please:

1. Fork the repository

2. Create a feature branch: git checkout -b feature/my-feature

3. Commit your changes: git commit -m "Add my feature"

4. Push to the branch: git push origin feature/my-feature

5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.

👤 Author

Samsaam Ali Baig

• GitHub: @alisamsam

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Anthropic for Claude AI and the MCP framework

• SolidWorks COM API documentation

• Inspired by ros2-claude-code-template by Harun KURT

⭐ If this project helps you, please give it a star!