The solid-modeling engine that does booleans, fillets and shelling is now free under Apache 2.0, and until now only legacy licensees could get it. A free Python wrapper, smlibpy, adds an MCP server, so AI agents can build parts and export STEP files. The poster works at AWV Informatik, the company behind smlibpy.
For engineers: an agent can now draft real CAD geometry on an industrial-grade CAD kernel.
When the SCADA vendor ships MCP itself, the question stops being if and becomes who approves writes.
For Controls and SCADA engineers:
Version 2.7.4 drives TIA Portal V20 or V21 to add hardware, generate tags, DBs and SCL or LAD blocks, and compile. It is free under MIT and is not made by or affiliated with Siemens.
For controls engineers: generate PLC blocks and put a TIA Portal project under Git from one prompt.
The German start-up's software pulls values from PDFs, CAD files and emails with a citation for each, flags conflicts for an engineer to approve, and drafts RFQs. Linking design quantities to tender prices is still planned. Owners of storage and substation projects could spend less time retyping data between design and procurement.