Why Engineers Are Using ChatGPT for SolidWorks Macros — And Where It Still Fails
Engineers are feeding SolidWorks tasks to ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude and getting working VBA macros back — sometimes. A Reddit post showing a ChatGPT-generated STL export macro pulled 26 upvotes. A separate thread about building an MCP server for the SolidWorks API drew 15 comments. The interest is real, and for good reason: writing a SolidWorks VBA macro from scratch means wrestling with a COM API that has methods taking 23 parameters and returns boolean values that aren’t actually booleans. ...