claude-solidworks-review
One-click AI drafting review for SOLIDWORKS drawings via a VBA export macro.
What it does and how it connects
claude-solidworks-review is a one-click AI drafting review for SOLIDWORKS drawings. Run the VBA macro on an open drawing and a few minutes later a review opens in the browser: findings ranked Critical, Major, or Minor, each with a numbered balloon on the drawing where the problem is.
The checklist lives in review-instructions.md and covers the title block, dimensions (missing, duplicate, over-dimensioned, overridden, or dangling), views, notes, GD&T, manufacturability, and the BOM against balloons for assemblies. Claude does not have to read small print off a picture: the macro pulls exact values out of SOLIDWORKS and gives Claude those alongside the PDF, so a value that prints differently from what is stored is flagged as Critical.
The flow is a VBA macro that exports every sheet to PDF plus a drawing-data.md file, then run-review.ps1 hands it to Claude Code in read-only mode, confined to the run folder, producing review.md and review.html. Each run gets its own folder under the Windows temp directory, nothing is written next to the drawing, and run folders older than 14 days are deleted automatically. It is built for SOLIDWORKS 2025 or newer on Windows, and Claude Code needs a Claude Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise, or Console account; the free plan does not include it.
Alternatives
Compare side by side- Auto-SolidWorks
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An agent workbench with a shared canvas and live SolidWorks modeling, rather than a one-click drawing review.
- schematic-review
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- MecAgent
A commercial desktop copilot that acts inside an open SolidWorks session, rather than a one-click review macro.
- eagle-pcb-studio
A Claude agent skill for EAGLE and Fusion 360 Electronics PCB design, rather than a review macro for SOLIDWORKS drawings.
Recurring errors it addresses
Error Index entries this tool is built to reduce or work around.
- Saving an assembly can trigger rebuilds that break mates and randomly alter mate dimensions.Error Index
- Large assemblies can lock up on open with the feature tree failing to populate.Error Index
- Even simple save/check-in operations can take minutes on capable hardware.Error Index
- A SolidWorks MCP bridge returned success JSON and even a normal-looking PDF export while the live document was wrong: a sketch asked for the Right plane silently landed on Front, and a macro call reported success=False with zero errors while never running. Only visual inspection inside SolidWorks itself revealed it.Error Index
Sources
Not verified
- Pricing: none stated on the repo.
- Real user voices: the repo has 0 open issues, and no independent user post was found.
- A named individual builder beyond the repository owner handle kilwizac
- A standalone website: the repo homepage points to the repository's own README.
Last verified November 6, 2026. Listings are informational. The evidence score measures public, verifiable evidence and is not an endorsement or a compatibility claim.