Show me, or do it for me

Caddie can walk you through a task with highlights on screen, or make the change itself after you approve it. You choose.

Guides: Caddie shows you where to click

Ask how to do something, such as "how do I shell this but leave the top open" or "show me how to measure between these holes", and a guide card appears above the chat box. Each step is highlighted on screen: a ribbon button, a menu item, a field in the PropertyManager or a feature in the FeatureManager tree.

SolidWorks with the Tools menu open; Caddie has outlined Evaluate › Measure and labelled it Measure. — A guide step highlighting Tools › Evaluate › Measure, in SolidWorks 2026.

The guide card

Show me	Highlights this step on screen again.
Open it	Opens the command for you, when the step starts one.
Do it for me	Makes this step's change, when it's one Caddie can make.
Done	For steps SolidWorks can't confirm by itself.
Skip and ×	Skip a step, or stop the guide.

Most steps tick themselves off. When you open the Fillet command, or the error clears, the guide moves to the next step on its own.

A guide card titled Reduce Fillet1's radius, step 1 of 3: Right-click Fillet1 and choose Edit Feature, with a Show me button. — The guide Caddie opened for a failing fillet. Its three steps: edit Fillet1, change 12 mm to 1 mm, click the green check.

Changes: Caddie does it, after you say yes

When you ask Caddie to make something, or the fix is clear, it shows a card with a one-line summary and every change it will make. Nothing happens until you click Do it.

A proposal waiting for approval. Each line is a change Caddie will make.

What Caddie can change

Sketches	New sketches on a plane or a flat face, with lines, arcs, circles and rectangles. Open or close a sketch.
Features	Extrudes and cuts (blind, through all, mid-plane, both directions or from an offset), fillets, chamfers, shells, mirrors, and linear and circular patterns.
Edits	Change a dimension, make a dimension driven, rename, suppress or unsuppress, delete a feature, delete a sketch relation.
Properties	Material and custom properties.

Undo

After a change, the card shows what happened and an Undo button. Undo reverts the whole set at once, including renames and materials. It works until you change the model yourself; after that, use Ctrl+Z in SolidWorks. Deleted sketch relations can't be restored, so Caddie always asks before deleting one.

If something fails

The changes in one card are applied together. If one of them fails, Caddie puts everything back and tells you what went wrong.

Don't ask again

For routine work, tick Don't ask again this session. Caddie then makes changes without asking first, and still shows what it did. Deleting a feature or a relation always asks.

Which should I use?

Learning SolidWorks, or want to be faster at it: guides. You do the clicks, so it sticks.
Know what you want and want it done: changes.
Say which you'd like: "show me how" or "just do it".