PTC adds AI Advisor to Onshape design environment
Oct 15, 2025 - Industry News
PTC announced AI Advisor for Onshape, bringing real-time design guidance directly into the cloud-native CAD and PDM workspace. The release is powered by Amazon Bedrock and provides secure access to new AI capabilities across the platform.
What's available today
- Updated in-workspace interface for continuous, context-aware guidance.
- Step-by-step recommendations to keep designs moving.
- Troubleshooting tools and best practices surfaced where you work.
What's next on the roadmap
- Agent workflows that help teams work faster while meeting enterprise security and data protection needs.
- Design agents that interact with model metadata, assist with troubleshooting and routine tasks, generate FeatureScript code, and streamline repetitive operations.
- AI-assisted rendering to improve visualization and design reviews.
Future vision
- Automated geometry creation to speed up early concept work.
- Design optimization to explore alternatives with less manual effort.
- Toolkits that support customer AI initiatives on top of Onshape's platform.
Why this matters for product development teams
Onshape's cloud-native architecture, open API, and public model library give teams the ingredients to put AI to work without fighting file-based bottlenecks. Scalable cloud resources, a public data library, and configurable tools enable teams to train models and generate synthetic data for experiments and pilots.
These capabilities have already supported collaborations with AI startups and research groups, helping companies move from exploration to implementation faster than traditional systems.
How to put this to work
- Start a focused pilot: pick a recurring design task (e.g., feature reuse, standard checks, early-stage reviews) and measure cycle time, rework rate, and ECO throughput.
- Prepare your data: clean up metadata and naming conventions so agents can read, reason, and act with less friction.
- Set guardrails: define access scopes, approval steps, and audit logging to meet security and compliance requirements.
- Document your standards: collect best practices and FeatureScript snippets the team wants surfaced in-context as guidance.
- Plan for reviews: use AI-assisted rendering to speed up visualization, comment resolution, and sign-offs.
Release cadence and access
Onshape ships new capabilities on a three-week release cycle, so teams get updates without manual installs or downtime. The AI Advisor is part of that rhythm and will expand as agent workflows and visualization support roll out.
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