Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

Hacker News Top 10/13/26, 05:54 AM Tools

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Summary

An Ask HN discussion asking whether LLMs or AI tools can help accelerate 3D CAD design for hobbyist woodworking projects, and whether anyone has recommendations for such tools.

I’m a hobbyist woodworker. I manually design simple things in Shapr3d with a lot of patience when I build things. I wonder in the time of LLMs if there is an effective way to accelerate the 3D model design using AI.. Anybody tried using AI to model wood projects? Any tools to recommend?

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