SimScale Engineering AI Agent for Onshape
SimScale agent delivered as an Onshape App Store app, launched September 15, 2026, that from a single prompt proposes a simulation setup, prepares raw CAD geometry, meshes, runs CFD, FEA, thermal or electromagnetic physics, and interprets results inside Onshape.
What it does and how it connects
The SimScale Engineering AI Agent launched September 15, 2026, announced at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, and is delivered as an integrated app through the Onshape App Store. Onshape users enable it before it appears in their workspace, the same way any other Onshape app is accessed.
From a single prompt, the agent reasons through the full simulation workflow: proposing a setup, preparing CAD geometry that has not yet been cleaned up for simulation, running the physics, and interpreting the results in plain engineering language, without the engineer leaving the Onshape environment or handing the job to a specialist. It acts as a reasoning agent on top of SimScale's full physics platform, the same CFD, thermal, electromagnetic, and FEA capability used for validation-grade simulation elsewhere on the platform.
The agent runs on the SimScale Agent API, which keeps every run auditable, keeps data under the customer's existing governance, and provisions compute automatically. The engineer can step in at any point to adjust a setup, override a boundary condition, or review assumptions before handing control back to the agent.
Alternatives
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- LEO (Leo AI)
A Large Mechanical Model that identifies formulas and runs engineering calculations with citations, rather than an agent that sets up and runs full simulation inside Onshape.
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- A named individual builder beyond SimScale.
Last verified November 6, 2026. Listings are informational. The evidence score measures public, verifiable evidence and is not an endorsement or a compatibility claim.