Encube and Siemens Parasolid: Powering an agentic platform for hardware development
Encube is redefining how hardware teams collaborate, review designs, and make engineering decisions. By combining agentic workflows, browser-based 3D visualization, and Siemens Parasolid as its geometric foundation, Encube helps manufacturers work with complex product data in a more connected, accessible, and intelligent way.
The challenge: collaborating around complex product data
Modern hardware development is becoming more complex, distributed, and time sensitive. Mechanical, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams must collaborate across organizations and geographies while working with increasingly sophisticated products and tighter development schedules.
For many companies, the challenge is no longer simply creating innovative products. It is ensuring that everyone involved in the development process can access, understand, review, and improve product data efficiently. Traditional collaboration methods such as screenshots, emails, disconnected design reviews, and desktop only CAD access can slow decision-making and create barriers between engineering and the wider product development ecosystem. As AI becomes more embedded in engineering workflows, the need for reliable, structured, engineering-grade data becomes even more important. AI can only provide meaningful design insight when it is grounded in accurate geometry and product context. Encube set out to address this challenge by creating a collaborative environment where hardware teams can move faster, reduce product risk, and make better decisions earlier in development.
The solution: AI powered insights in a shared 3D environment
Encube has developed an agentic platform designed to help hardware teams collaborate more effectively throughout the product development lifecycle.
The platform brings together engineers, suppliers, manufacturers, and customers in a shared environment where product data becomes easier to access, understand, and act upon.
Encubeʼs vision of collaboration “at the speed of thought” is supported by three core capabilities: multiplayer engineering collaboration, AI built specifically for hardware development, and high-fidelity 3D visualization directly in the browser.
With these capabilities, teams can analyze designs, capture feedback, identify risks, understand product changes, and collaborate across organizations without relying on disconnected review processes.
Browser-based 3D visualization also helps make complex CAD models accessible to a wider group of stakeholders. Manufacturing experts, suppliers, customers, and program managers can participate in design discussions using the same visual context as engineering teams.
This creates a more connected way of working, enabling hardware teams to review engineering data, reason about design options, and take action earlier in the
development process.
Parasolid as the foundation for engineering-grade geometry
At the heart of every engineering collaboration platform is a fundamental requirement: reliable handling of 3D product data. Engineering decisions are only as good as the geometry behind them, particularly when users need to review assemblies, evaluate manufacturability, compare revisions, or use AI to reason about design intent.
Encube integrates Parasolid, Siemensʼ market-leading 3D geometric modeling kernel, as the internal representation for CAD data within the platform. Rather
than simply visualizing CAD files, Encube can build its collaborative and agentic workflows on a proven geometry foundation that supports precise, robust, and scalable handling of complex engineering models.
AI systems are most effective when operating on reliable, structured engineering data. By building on Parasolid, Encube can help ensure that AI-driven analysis and collaboration workflows are grounded in accurate product geometry rather than simplified approximations.
Hugo Nordell, Co-founder and CEO, Encube
Parasolid provides a mature and widely adopted geometric foundation, allowing the Encube team to focus on innovation, agentic workflows, real-time collaboration and browser-based user experiences.
For Encube customers, this combination supports faster and more informed decision-making across the product lifecycle.
Teams can collaborate around high quality 3D product data, reduce development risk, improve design review processes, and bring more stakeholders into engineering discussions without requiring everyone to work inside a traditional CAD environment.
Because Parasolid is trusted across the CAD, CAM, CAE, simulation, manufacturing, and collaboration software ecosystem, Encube can handle engineering data on a foundation already proven in demanding product development environments.
Looking ahead
Manufacturers are facing growing pressure from increasing product complexity, workforce transitions, supply-chain uncertainty, and the need to bring products to market faster.
Encube’s vision is to address these challenges by combining agentic workflows, real-time collaboration and rich engineering visualization in a single platform.
By selecting Parasolid as the geometric foundation for its platform, Encube gains access to proven 3D modeling technology while focusing its own development resources on differentiated capabilities for AI-driven engineering collaboration. Encube and Parasolid together pave the way for next-generation engineering software, combining trusted geometry infrastructure with new approaches to engineering intelligence.
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