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Solidworks-MCP (ycpss91255-research)MCADConfidence: Medium

The MCP server found planes by their English names, so on a non-English SolidWorks no sketch could be made. Worse, "SwPlanes.get() returned the Front plane for any unknown plane name, so a typo could silently put a sketch on the wrong plane." The fix finds planes by the direction of their normal and makes an unknown name an error. Verified live with the planes renamed to Chinese. The same report exists upstream in German. The fix went straight to main first and the issue and PR were written after the fact. An agent that guesses a plane and reports success is worse than one that fails.

Impact Analysis

Persona
Mechanical Designer
Team Size Impact
5x Multiplier
Prototype Delay
3 Days
Est. Annual Cost
$30,000
  • 1 user · 1 month240 min
  • Rest of team960 min
  • Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 2 2026 (Nov 2 8:41 AM ET through Nov 2 10:41 PM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-03: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.