ParaCruxFind a standard structural section
Ask for a tube, angle or beam in your own words and get real catalogue sizes back, with their standard.
Video in production
Until it is ready, this is the running order. Each step is also written out below, and you can try it in the simulator.
- Ask in your own words
Type 'I need a 50 mm square tube' in a design conversation.
- The search it runs
Expand the tool call: family and query.
- Reading a result
Designation, size, wall, source table and fingerprint.
- Narrowing
Add the wall thickness and get one result.
You need
- The app activated
- Agent connection set to CueCrux Credits or OpenAI Subs (shown beside Send)
- A design conversation open in the Solidworks Agent workspace
You'll come away with
- Search 306 sections across seven families
- Read the size, wall and source standard for each result
- Know when to narrow a search
Step by step
Say what you need
In your design's conversation, describe the section. The Agent turns that into a search by family and designation.
“I need a 50 mm square tube”
Read the results
Each result lists its designation, the dimensions in their catalogue units and the table it came from, with a fingerprint of that table so you can tell if it changes later.
Narrow it down
A search returns at most 20 sizes. If it says there were more, add the wall thickness or the full designation.
“a 50 by 50 tube with a 4 mm wall”
Decide for yourself
Results are catalogue candidates. The Agent does not check that a section suits your loads or matches a drawing you have. That call stays with you.
Try it here.
This searches the real bundled catalogue with the same matching rule the app uses. The plain-English requests show how the Agent might phrase each search; you can edit the search yourself.
3 matches
| Designation | Family | Dimensions |
|---|---|---|
| SHS 50x50x3.0 | Square hollow section | size (mm) 50 · thickness (mm) 3 |
| SHS 50x50x4.0 | Square hollow section | size (mm) 50 · thickness (mm) 4 |
| SHS 50x50x5.0 | Square hollow section | size (mm) 50 · thickness (mm) 5 |
Source: Square hollow section
EN 10210-2 (hot finished) and EN 10219-2 (cold formed) square hollow sections. Designation is side x side x wall thickness in millimetres, so every dimension below is stated by the designation itself.
Search and data: the product's own catalogue and matching rule · The requests in quotes are examples of how the Agent might phrase a search
What it won't do
- Candidates only: geometric match and engineering suitability are not checked.
- At most 20 results per search.
- Custom profiles from DXF or DWG are not connected to this search.
Covers: Standard section search. See the full index