For too long, engineering has lived with an artificial divide. Geometry and design happen in one set of tools, while physics and simulation live in another. The handoffs are clunky, the workflows brittle, and the pace of decision-making painfully slow. Engineers are often forced to make decisions on incomplete information or wait days or weeks for answers.
That’s why Luminary Cloud and Onshape are partnering together to collapse this artificial barrier between CAD and simulation, and to give engineering teams the ability to design with confidence in real time.
Derisking Design with Physics Intelligence
Onshape has redefined CAD with its cloud-native, API-first platform. Luminary Cloud has redefined simulation with a Physics AI Platform to generate simulation datasets at scale and train models that deliver near real-time performance predictions. Together, they make it possible to integrate geometry, simulation, and AI into a single, unified loop.
With the launch of this integration, engineering teams using Onshape can now iterate on large design spaces natively using Onshape’s parametric capabilities and Luminary Cloud’s Physics AI platform.
This integration is an important step forward in unlocking new levels of engineering productivity:
- For engineers designing vehicles, drones, electronics systems, or turbomachinery, it means direct, accurate analysis triggered from within their design environment.
- For R&D teams, it means thousands of design variants explored in the time it once took to evaluate one.
- For engineering leaders, it means faster time-to-market, lower development costs, and a competitive edge in innovation.
Proof in Action: SHIFT-Wing
Demo of Luminary’s Onshape integration.
The promise of this integration is best understood with SHIFT-Wing, our demonstration of a Physics AI model for transonic wings, that showcases what’s possible when CAD, simulation, and AI converge. SHIFT-Wing is built on more than 3,000 high-fidelity simulations, which were generated using Onshape in a matter of days.
“The SHIFT-Wing collaboration with Luminary demonstrates how Onshape’s industry-leading cloud-native CAD is uniquely positioned to power the next generation of AI-driven engineering,” ssays Darren Henry, SVP Onshape General Operations at PTC. “By integrating Onshape’s parametric modeling directly into the Physics AI pipeline, we’ve enabled engineers to generate and iterate on thousands of design variants while maintaining full design intent, version history, and auditability. This seamless data flow from CAD to AI and back represents the future of engineering.” *
*The SHIFT-Wing loop—geometry in Onshape, simulation and model training on Luminary, and instant inference with a Physics AI model—demonstrates this new engineering paradigm in action: faster decisions, smarter designs, and reduced risk.
By integrating Onshape’s parametric modeling directly into the Physics AI pipeline, we’ve enabled engineers to generate and iterate on thousands of design variants while maintaining full design intent, version history, and auditability.
— Darren Henry, SVP Onshape General Operations, PTC
A New Paradigm for Engineering
For decades, engineers accepted the process bottlenecks as inevitable: analysts waiting on CAD, designers waiting on simulation, leadership waiting on results. With the new Luminary Cloud and Onshape integration, that stalling loop collapses resulting in accelerated engineering throughput across the organization.
The future of engineering is rapid, collaborative, scalable, and AI-enabled. And with the launch of this integration, that future is here today.
Try It Yourself
Whether you’re designing a next-generation aircraft wing, optimizing a thermal system, or exploring turbomachinery configurations, the Luminary Onshape integration puts Physics AI inside your design loop. Build your own proprietary model for your unique design space, and accelerate the decisions that matter most.
