v0.2.0 — GUI installer & portable package

CAD backend: Autodesk Inventor 2025+ (production). SolidWorks provider in active development.

Highlights

• GUI installer wizard — double-click McpCad.Installer.exe. Welcome → agent selection + CAD Skills + Backups → progress → finish.
• Portable self-contained package — McpCad.Server.exe + McpCad.Installer.exe, no .NET SDK required.
• CAD skills deploy — installer copies bundled skills into each agent's global skills directory.
• Config backups — optional surgical backup of MCP config files before overwrite.
• TUI preserved — McpCad.Installer.exe --tui; --recommended / --all for CLI.

Quick start

1. Download mcp-cad-v0.2.0-portable.zip below.
2. Extract anywhere.
3. Double-click McpCad.Installer.exe.
4. Restart your AI client and open Inventor.

Full changelog: docs/RELEASE.md

v0.1.0 — First release

80+ MCP tools for Autodesk Inventor parametric control.

What's included

• Sketch: 20 tools (line, circle, arc, rectangle, spline, constraints, dimensions, patterns)
• 3D Features: 21 tools (extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, coil, fillet, chamfer, hole, shell, combine, draft, split, thicken, patterns)
• Assembly: 16 tools (place, ground, constraints, patterns, BOM, extrude-cut)
• Work Geometry: 3 tools (plane, axis, point)
• Params & Properties: 9 tools
• Export: 4 tools (STEP, STL, PDF, DXF)
• Composable Skills: 22 higher-level abstractions

Requirements

• Windows 10/11
• Autodesk Inventor 2025+
• .NET 8.0 Runtime

Quick start

Download and run \McpCad.Server.exe\ — configure your MCP client to point to it. Or use the TUI installer from source.