AnkusDrive MCP server

AnkusDrive is a helper that connects your AI to FreeCAD, a free program for designing 3D mechanical parts. It lets your AI build shapes, drawings and simulations for you instead of you clicking around inside FreeCAD yourself. It is handy for engineers, makers and students who want to design parts by describing them in words.

What this MCP server does

You describe a part or a test in plain words to your AI, for example a bracket with certain sizes. The AI uses this helper to send those instructions to FreeCAD on your computer. FreeCAD builds the 3D model, makes the drawing, or runs the simulation. The helper then reads the results back and shows them to you in the chat, like stress numbers or a picture of the part.

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What you can do with it

• Create 3D parts like boxes, gears and brackets from your description
• Combine shapes together or cut one shape out of another
• Make technical drawings of your part
• Run stress and strength tests on a part
• Run heat, airflow and other physics simulations
• Keep track of part numbers, versions and changes
• Build a product from several parts made in parallel

Try asking your AI

• “Make a box 10 cm wide, 20 cm deep and 5 cm tall and save it as a FreeCAD file”
• “Add a gear with 20 teeth and show me what it looks like”
• “Run a stress test on this bracket and tell me the highest stress”
• “Create a technical drawing of this part and export it”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, like a description of the part that was made, the sizes it used, or the numbers from a simulation such as stress or temperature. It can also save files on your computer, for example a FreeCAD file or a drawing. When something changes, it tells you what it changed. If a step fails, it explains what went wrong.

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Who it's for

Mechanical engineers, product designers, makers and engineering students who want to design parts and run simulations by talking to their AI.