- I continue to be skeptical of text to CAD, because to make it work, you're going to be doing a whole lot of this [0]. This is an extremely high bar to clear to be better than even the most basic of CAD skills.
I'd wager that for most of the CAD I work on, I would not be able to accurately describe what I want in natural language. If you've been able to, please share examples!
[0] - https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/15day4-mailbox.html
- That's pretty freaking cool!!! Got exactly what I wanted with the following prompt:
Create a 200x100mm rectangle with depth of 12.7mm, 6mm filleted corners, a 25mm center hole, 6.35mm holes in each corner offset 12.7mm each edge, with 1mm chamfer on top of center hole and 0.5mm chamfers on corner holes.
Now, just give me a picture to parametric model prompt generator...and then we can get into assemblies! ;)
- It would be killer to be able to integrate this with 3d scans. Eg "make me a mount that hugs this shape" where you can draw both render the scan and mark it with a 2d paint tool
- Keep in mind that OpenSCAD doesn't support exporting .step files. Ticket to add support has been open for a long time but it's a hard to implement.
https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery is much more capable in that regards. It's based on more capable Open CASCADE Technology and Freecad also uses it.
As for use cases, the only viable use case I see is to ask it to make a model based on a picture. Or ask it to fix the topological error. In other cases it's much faster to model than to describe it to agent
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- Sick.
The first feature I wanted to add was a "Quote from xometry" panel; I cloned/GPT'd for a couple minutes and found that actually adding this would mean pulling tricks with selenium that don't scale.
Have you reached out to xometry/hubs.com/other Print-aaS companies for a partnership?
- Readme could really use some pictures
- > CADAM uses ngrok to send image URLs to Anthropic
FYI you can send base64 encoded PNGs, no need to mess about with ngrok.
- Cool project. AI is surprisingly good with openscad. I wonder what a custom trained model could do?
- "CADAM" name is conflicting with an old commercial CAD...
- I like it!
I had the idea of printing a gripper to carry heavy plastic bags. When I described the idea without specifying the size, it automatically created a model with parameters for me to adjust. Most of the parameters matched my manual solution. The slot for the bag handles was a bit more difficult, but it worked out after a third attempt with more specific instructions. It’s also great that new parameters are automatically added to the system.
In total, it took around 15 minutes, compared to hours with an easy-to-use system such as 3D Builder (including the time it took to learn how to use it).
However, I don’t know if it can work for objects that require more complex and precise constructions. But hey, why not give it a try!
- do you have examples or any getting started guide to know what can I expect ?
- Have you seen what google's nano banana can do?
- Thank you
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- is this a joke ?
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