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A video and article series on pairing Claude Code with mechanical engineering tools — CAD, PLM, and the scriptable seams between them.

1. 01Why I'm Pointing Claude Code at My CAD WorkflowScripting carried me through years of CAD and PLM work — VBA for batch Pack and Go, Jupyter for a 2,000-file PLM migration. AI-native CAD is the next step in that arc, and this series documents it.August 18, 2026 · 5 min read
2. 2AOne Recipe, One Pass: Claude Designs a Vise Mounting PlateI wrote a one-page workflow recipe and let Claude run it end to end in Onshape: import a vendor table vise, measure its mounting holes, build a custom aluminum plate in FeatureScript, assemble, assign properties, and verify hole strength.August 19, 2026 · 9 min read
3. 2BThe Forty-Five-Minute MateApplying the lessons from Part 2A produced the correct model, but the build still took forty-five minutes. More than half of that time was spent creating a single assembly mate through the Onshape interface. By defining the mate connectors in FeatureScript instead, I reduced the same build to ten and a half minutes.August 23, 2026 · 17 min read
4. 3AUsing Claude Code to Turn a Vendor STEP File into a Working Drawer Slide AssemblyA vendor STEP file reduced a drawer slide to fifteen frozen bodies. Claude Code rebuilt it as a working pair with five members, four Slider mates, and eight end stops. The successful take ran in less than half the time because the failures from the first attempt had become written rules.August 31, 2026 · 14 min read