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Rebuild my Fusion 360 design inside SolidWorks, feature by feature

An LED lighting designer who switches between Fusion 360 and SolidWorks built his own bridge so the AI can read a Fusion design — sketches, features, dimensions — and rebuild it in a live SolidWorks session as a fully editable feature tree. Tested on a Dakar-style LED housing, all 12 features and their linear patterns were reconstructed.

How it works

  1. Connect the AI desktop to both the Fusion 360 MCP server and his custom SolidWorks bridge
  2. Read the design's sketches, features and dimensions from Fusion
  3. Look up exact SolidWorks API call syntax in a local semantic index
  4. Execute Python against the live SolidWorks COM session through 17 typed tools
  5. Verify with screenshots, interference checks and a 3-axis manufacturability check

Why it’s worth knowing

The AI rebuilt a real Dakar-style light housing inside a second CAD program as editable features — not a converted file.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on vibingtalk.com. See the original ↗

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