What Kidge can do.

Documents & project data · 13 tools

Detect the active document, its type, and all open documents; open, close and save documents.

• Read, write, and create iProperties
• Read, change, and add user parameters

Understanding the model · 3 tools

The AI's "eyes": a structured, machine-readable view of the active model.

• Calculate mass, volume, surface area
• Faces, edges & features with stable references
• Screenshots from 10 viewing angles

New: upload images & sketches directly into the chat (attachment button or Ctrl+V) – the foundation for a sketch-to-part workflow.

Sketches, features & material · 18 tools

From the first line to a finished, materialized feature tree.

• Sketches, lines, rectangles, circles
• Extrude & revolve
• Fillets, chamfers, holes
• Patterns (rectangular/circular), mirrors, shells
• Read the material library & assign material

Assemblies · 11 tools

Place components, connect them, and keep the structure in view.

• Place & remove components/sub-assemblies
• Mate, flush, insert, angle & tangent constraints
• Read the full bill of materials (BOM)

✓ Verified end-to-end with real placed components (July 16, 2026).

Drawings · 13 tools

Create new drawings and place and dimension views, without clicking manually through every sheet.

• Create a new drawing from scratch
• Base, projected, section & detail views
• Linear, radius & diameter dimensions
• Read and set title block text, export (PDF/DWG/DXF/STEP)

✓ Dimensioning tools verified end-to-end with correctly measured values (July 16, 2026). New (July 17, 2026): detail views and creating new drawings (create_drawing). Fixed as of July 21, 2026: saving a newly created drawing used to fail due to a wrongly assumed file extension – now corrected automatically based on the actually configured default template, verified live.

Sheet metal · 4 tools

Sheet-metal workflows from the base face to the flat pattern.

• Base faces from sketches
• Flanges on edges
• Flat pattern, corner seams

✓ Tested end-to-end and confirmed working (July 16, 2026).

iLogic · 6 tools

Understand existing iLogic rules and adjust them precisely.

• List rules & read code
• Create, update, run, delete rules

Self-verification · 3 tools

The core of Kidge's agentic approach – no "should work now".

• A task plan with success criteria before multi-step tasks
• Every step needs concrete evidence
• "Done" is only accepted once everything is proven

Memory, code & search · 6 tools

For everything that goes beyond the core toolset.

• Free C# code access for edge cases without a dedicated tool
• Persistent memory across sessions
• Tool and guide search for edge cases
• Web search for up-to-date information

Vault integration · 2 tools

New: a generic bridge to Autodesk Vault, with no hard dependency on Vault's own API.

• List available Vault commands (check out, check in, get latest version, ...)
• Run a specific command found this way

Note: Vault is a multi-user system – actions affect the whole team. Without the Vault add-in installed, the tool list simply returns empty instead of an error.

Session management · chat feature

New (July 17, 2026): 13 local slash commands with autocomplete keep long chat sessions manageable.

• Automatic history compaction past a token threshold (/verlauf locker|standard|kompakt)
• Real token usage display for the running session (/tokens)
• Auto-continue budget for multi-step tasks, now unlimited by default (/limit)

Claude Code & Codex as AI backend · BYO-AI

Two major providers can now be connected as an AI backend with no API key at all, just your existing subscription: an already locally installed and logged-in Claude Code CLI (new July 17, 2026) or – new as of July 18, 2026 – OpenAI's Codex CLI. Both run through a local MCP server that exposes Kidge's tools. Claude Code is confirmed with a real end-to-end test in Inventor (MCP handshake, tool call, response); Codex is verified end-to-end up to the login step (requires a one-time codex login outside of Kidge). Since July 20, 2026, both offer real model choice instead of a single fixed default: Claude Code lets you pick between Sonnet, Opus, Haiku, and Fable; Codex between GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and GPT-5.4 mini.

Honesty note: Claude Code CLI is structurally about 5× slower than direct API access (its own system prompt, internal model routing, a full process restart per message) – the same tradeoff likely applies to Codex CLI. Not a Kidge bug and no fix in sight, but the "no API key needed" promise remains fully intact.

Other CAD systems

Kidge is starting focused with Autodesk Inventor. Long-term, Kidge is planned as a CAD AI for SolidWorks, FreeCAD, Autodesk Fusion 360 and Solid Edge too, once the core scope for Inventor is mature. Autodesk Vault already has a first, generic connection – deeper, native integration follows later.

AI model verification

Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Perplexity, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Cerebras, Together.ai, and local LM Studio have been directly selectable since July 17, 2026 – verification against real accounts is still ongoing.

License server & team management

Central license management for companies with multiple workstations and Inventor installations.

Autodesk App Store

Official release of Kidge on the Autodesk App Store for even simpler installation.

Even more specialized tools

More tools for complex sheet metal, assembly, and drawing cases keep following the existing toolset.