Built-in AI · MCP
AI-assisted CAD.
Describe what you want to design: AI creates the sketches, features and assemblies in Octopus 360, right before your eyes. This is made possible by the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets an AI assistant such as Claude use software. Octopus 360 builds it in.
Inside the software
The ✦ Claude chat, built in.
Click “✦ Claude” in the status bar and describe what you want to do. Claude uses the Octopus 360 tools and you watch the model being built. It goes through your own Claude account (Claude Code or Claude Desktop installed and signed in).
✦ Claude chat open in Octopus 360
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- Documents — create, open, save, export (STEP, STL, SVG, PDF), switch tab
- Modelling — planes, sketches, extrudes, revolves, holes, fillets, chamfers, patterns, mirrors
- Editing — edit or delete a feature, undo
- Assemblies — insert components, mates, flexible components, screwing, welds, bill of materials
- Checking — model state, measurements, materials and mass properties, screenshots
?Good to know
- The MCP server ships with Octopus 360: no Node.js or other tool to install.
- You can also connect another MCP client from the OCTOPUS 360 ▸ Claude connection (MCP) menu.
- Your models stay on your computer. What you type in the chat is sent to the assistant you chose, under its own terms.
- AI is optional: every Octopus 360 feature works without it.