# ParaCrux Solidworks Agent docs

> Plain-English lessons and an index of every published feature with its real status. Reviewed 2026-10-01.

Available = in the paid Agent today. In review = in the next desktop release. Lab = shown in demos, not for sale.

## Your account and seats

Buying, activating, updating and getting help.

### Lessons

- [Install the app and activate it](https://paracrux.com/docs/install-and-activate.md) (Start here, 5 min, Available): From an empty account to a licensed workstation, in three moves.
- [Activate by signing in from the app](https://paracrux.com/docs/sign-in-from-the-app.md) (Start here, 3 min, Available): Approve this computer in your browser instead of copying an activation code.
- [Work offline with a checked-out seat](https://paracrux.com/docs/work-offline.md) (Everyday, 4 min, Available): Check out your seat before you lose the connection, and return it when you are back.
- [Licence a computer with no internet](https://paracrux.com/docs/license-a-computer-without-internet.md) (Everyday, 5 min, Available): Carry two signed files between an offline computer and a connected one, so an air-gapped workstation can hold a seat.
- [Update, and read what changed first](https://paracrux.com/docs/update-the-app.md) (Everyday, 3 min, Available): Updates arrive signed. Read the notes before you install, and save your work first.
- [Get help from support](https://paracrux.com/docs/get-help.md) (Everyday, 5 min, Available): Open a request from your account or the app, choose what to attach, and follow replies. It works with or without an active subscription.
- [Cancel, or ask for a refund](https://paracrux.com/docs/cancel-and-refunds.md) (Deeper, 4 min, Available): Stop the next renewal from My account, know what keeps working until the end date, and how refunds and AI credit are handled.

### Features

- **Customer account** (Available): Register with your email, sign in and recover your password. Where: My account (/dashboard)
- **Seats and subscription** (Available): Buy seats monthly (£39) or yearly (£390); each seat runs on one computer at a time. Where: Pricing, then My account → Subscription
- **Install and update** (Available): Download the Windows app; it checks for signed updates on launch and every four hours. Where: Download page; in the app, Settings → General
- **Activate a computer** (Available): Generate a code for each product in your account and paste it into the app; it takes a seat automatically whenever one is free and you are online. Where: My account → Activation; in the app, Licensing
- **Offline seat checkout** (Available): Check a seat out for offline use for a set number of days, then return it when you are back online. Where: In the app, Licensing → Offline checkout and manual seat controls
- **Managed AI credit** (Available): Each paid seat includes £5 of AI credit per UTC month; optional £10, £25 and £50 top-ups carry forward. Where: My account → Credits; rates in the app under Settings → Agent API
- **Support tickets** (Available): Open a ticket from your account or from the app, attach screenshots, logs or a report of the current Agent session, and follow replies. Where: My account → Support; in the app, status bar → Get help, Crux Plus → Get help, or Settings → General → Help & support
- **Release notes** (Available): Read what changed in each version, on the website or in the app before you update. Where: Release notes page; in the app, Settings → What's new
- **Cancel and refunds** (Available): Stop renewal at any time; refunds follow the published policy. Where: My account, Billing & cancellation; the Refunds & cancellation page
- **Sign in from the app** (Available): Activate a computer by approving it in your browser, with no code to copy. Where: Licensing, Sign in with your ParaCrux account; paracrux.com/activate
- **Offline licence files** (Available): Licence a computer that is never online by carrying signed files to and from a connected computer. Where: Licensing, This computer has no internet; paracrux.com/offline

## The SOLIDWORKS Agent

Asking about your models and making reviewed changes on copies.

### Lessons

- [Ask about the open model](https://paracrux.com/docs/ask-about-your-model.md) (Start here, 6 min, Available): Ask a question in plain English and the Agent reads the answer from the model open in SOLIDWORKS. Reading never changes anything.
- [Write design intent and instructions](https://paracrux.com/docs/write-design-intent.md) (Start here, 6 min, Available): Tell the Agent what must change, what must stay true and how you want it to work. It keeps both up to date as you talk.
- [Find a standard structural section](https://paracrux.com/docs/find-a-standard-section.md) (Everyday, 4 min, Available): Ask for a tube, angle or beam in your own words and get real catalogue sizes back, with their standard.
- [Put cited materials into SOLIDWORKS](https://paracrux.com/docs/export-materials-to-solidworks.md) (Everyday, 5 min, Available): Find a grade in the Materials tab, check where each value comes from, then add the whole library to SOLIDWORKS' Edit Material in one export.
- [Install standard sections as weldment profiles](https://paracrux.com/docs/install-weldment-profiles.md) (Everyday, 4 min, Available): Write all 306 standard sections into SOLIDWORKS as weldment profiles, each checked as a 1 m member, then pick them in Structural Member.
- [Use your design library](https://paracrux.com/docs/search-your-design-library.md) (Everyday, 6 min, Available): Keep house rules, tolerances and material notes in a library the Agent searches before it works.
- [Teach the Agent your company's practice](https://paracrux.com/docs/capture-company-knowledge.md) (Everyday, 5 min, Available): Capture a preferred material, standard detail or lesson from a finished design, approve it once, and the Agent cites it when it applies.
- [Create a simple part from a brief](https://paracrux.com/docs/create-a-simple-part.md) (Everyday, 6 min, Available): Describe a block with all three sizes and get a checked native part and STEP file. Leave a size out and it asks.
- [Change a dimension on a copy](https://paracrux.com/docs/change-a-dimension-safely.md) (Everyday, 8 min, Available): Propose a new value, run it on a copy, check the result independently, then accept or reject. Your original is never touched.
- [Change two dimensions, with a volume limit](https://paracrux.com/docs/change-two-dimensions-with-a-limit.md) (Everyday, 7 min, Available): Change several dimensions in one reviewed run and state a measurement the result must meet. If it misses, you can't accept it.
- [Decide what the Agent can send](https://paracrux.com/docs/share-design-context.md) (Deeper, 5 min, Available): Design context stays on your computer until you allow it. See what goes, choose where it is processed, and switch it off again.
- [How a job spends AI credit](https://paracrux.com/docs/how-a-job-spends-credit.md) (Deeper, 5 min, Available): What leaves your machine, how each step reserves its cost, and where a job always stops.
- [Run the Agent with a local model](https://paracrux.com/docs/use-a-local-model.md) (Deeper, 4 min, Available): Point the Agent at a model server on your own computer or network, so design context never leaves your site.
- [When the Agent stops or asks](https://paracrux.com/docs/when-the-agent-stops.md) (Deeper, 6 min, Available): Why a job stops, what each message means and what to do next. It stops rather than guess, and never retries a CAD step on its own.

### Features

- **Ask about the open model** (Available): Ask in plain English and the Agent reads the model open in SOLIDWORKS: features, dimensions, mass, properties and eight more read-only views. Where: Solidworks Agent workspace, in a design conversation
- **Reviewed dimension changes** (Available): Pick up to 16 driving dimensions, set new values, run the change on a copy and check the outputs before you accept. Where: In the app, Worksheets tab
- **Projects, designs and intent** (Available): Keep each piece of work in a numbered project and design, with the intent and instructions the Agent follows. Where: Home → Solidworks Agent (Open project workspace)
- **Create a simple box part** (Available): Ask for a rectangular block with all three sizes and get a native part and a STEP file, both checked. Where: Solidworks Agent workspace, in a design conversation
- **Standard section search** (Available): Find sizes among 306 standard structural sections in seven families, with their source standard. Where: Solidworks Agent workspace, in a design conversation
- **Design library search** (Available): Search the references and notes you have saved, privately per design or shared across your workspace. Where: Solidworks Agent workspace, in a design conversation
- **What leaves your workstation** (Available): Model files stay local; design context is sent only after you allow it in Agent settings, and you can preview it first. Where: In the app, Settings → Agent API; Instructions → Preview
- **Job limits** (Available): One tool call per step, at most eight steps and £2 per job; credit is reserved per step and unused credit returned. Where: Every managed AI job
- **Materials library export** (Available): Search 1,010 cited materials in 12 families and export them to SOLIDWORKS as one material library. Where: In the app, Home → Materials
- **Weldment profile export** (Available): Write all 306 standard sections as SOLIDWORKS weldment profiles, each checked as a 1 m member before the folder is registered. Where: In the app, Home → Profiles
- **Typed request routing** (Lab): A separate model picks a fixed route for each request, or abstains below 80% confidence. Shadow mode only. Where: How it decides page
- **Feature-by-feature parts** (Lab): Parts built with fully defined sketches and named features, as in the connecting rod recording. Where: See us build
- **Drawings on your sheet format** (Lab): Drawings linked to the part's properties, updated through an engineering change and its revision. Where: See us build
- **Review against a standard** (Lab): Check a design against a named standard, redesign, and check again. Prepared, not certified. Where: Play tower case study
- **Stress checks** (Lab): Linear static studies judged against an engineering standard, with lighter options suggested. Where: Con rod stress case study
- **Local model connection** (Available): Run the Agent with a model server on your own computer or network; nothing is sent to CueCrux or OpenAI. Where: Agent settings, Connect using, Local model · offline
- **Company knowledge** (Available): Capture a preferred material, standard detail or lesson from a past design, approve it once, and the Agent cites it when it applies. Where: Design context, Company knowledge

## When something goes wrong

[66 messages the app and website show, what each means and what to do](https://paracrux.com/docs/fix.md).

## From the lab

What we are building. Not for sale.

- [Parts built feature by feature](https://paracrux.com/docs/lab/parts-built-feature-by-feature.md) (Lab): In our lab, an AI agent models parts the way an engineer would, then changes them through their own dimensions and variables.
- [Drawings that follow a change](https://paracrux.com/docs/lab/drawings-that-follow-a-change.md) (Lab): In our lab, an engineering change carries through from the part to its drawing and a new revision, and the original is kept.
- [Review against a named standard](https://paracrux.com/docs/lab/review-against-a-standard.md) (Lab): In our lab, an AI agent checked a play tower against BS EN 71-8 and Eurocode 5, redesigned it, and checked the new model again.
- [Stress checks against your standard](https://paracrux.com/docs/lab/stress-checks.md) (Lab): In our lab, an AI agent ran SOLIDWORKS Simulation on a copy of a part, judged it against a written standard, then changed it until it passed.
- [How requests will be routed](https://paracrux.com/docs/lab/typed-request-routing.md) (Lab): A separate typed model picks a fixed route for each request, or abstains and leaves the call to you. It runs in shadow mode today.