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Engineering Leader Series

Simulation for Every Designer: How AI Agents Democratize Simulation Inside Onshape

October 28, 2026

3:00 pm CET / 10:00 am ET

In collaboration with

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This webinar will cover:

  • How AI agents extend what you can explore inside Onshape: from design question to validated physics, without leaving your CAD environment.
  • How text to code to CAD turns a plain-language prompt into a reusable, parametric Onshape feature that captures your team’s design intent and makes design variants easy to generate, all in the cloud with no files to move around.
  • How those designs connect to simulation: the SimScale agent sets up, runs, and explains the study straight from Onshape, closing the loop from prompt to validated design.
  • A live demo of the SimScale Engineering AI agent in Onshape.

By watching this webinar you will learn:

  • How an agent taking on the simulation engineer’s work lets CAD users launch simulations and get results back themselves.
  • How Onshape tools and an AI simulation agent can capture your team’s engineering know-how and share it across your organization.
  • What this new model of democratized simulation means for your design engineers and your simulation team.
  • How to try the agent with your own team.

Meet your presenters

Dan Kane

Dan Kane

Director of Partnerships & Market Development

Dan Kane leads partnerships for Onshape at PTC, where he drives strategic and technical collaborations with partners across the engineering software ecosystem. He started his career in simulation and has spent the past decade in engineering software.

Dr. Steven Lainé

Dr. Steven Lainé

Director Solution Engineering

Steve is Director of Solution Engineering at SimScale. He has a technical foundation, with a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science. Steve has 7 years of industry-relevant experience from working in aerospace design and engineering simulation.

Alex Graham

Alex Graham

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Alex has a technical background in simulation and started his career in aerodynamics at the Renault F1 Team. Now his focus is on communicating the value of engineering simulation to the community and advocating for solutions. He holds a Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University.

About SimScale

SimScale is the world’s first cloud-native SaaS engineering simulation platform, giving engineers and designers immediate access to digital prototyping early in the design stage, throughout the entire R&D cycle, and across the entire enterprise. By providing instant access to a single fluid, thermal, and structural simulation tool built on the latest cloud computing technology, SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application to a user-friendly web application, accessible to any designer and engineer in the world.

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