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A developer describes building a Claude Code skill that verifies AI-generated CAD geometry before export, catching silent OpenCASCADE failures like un-shelled parts and misplaced cuts using volume, bounding box, and point classification checks.
TraceCAD is a persistent recovery layer for LLM-based CAD agents, diagnosing faulty operations and performing localized, reusable repairs to improve final geometric quality and repair reliability.
This video tutorial explains how to use the MCP protocol to let an AI Agent drive CATIA V5 modeling, including installation/configuration and automatic 3D model generation.
Backflip AI unveils a second-generation AI model that turns physical parts into native parametric CAD models in minutes for about $10, drastically reducing the cost and time of reverse engineering and aiming to digitize entire factories.
Introduces CADENA, a model that reconstructs 3D meshes as parametric CAD programs step by step, comparing intermediate geometry with the target, plus the CADENA-Bench benchmark. Outperforms prior methods on multiple datasets.
A free comprehensive course on 3D printing and additive manufacturing, covering core technologies, materials, design, and applications, is now available on freeCodeCamp.
The author praises the Kimi 3 model's performance in 3D modeling CAD, stating that its texture and interaction surpass the previous generation Kimi 2.7, and includes a video demonstration.
A thread explaining how to go from a STEP file to a custom cast steel pulley in days using advanced casting techniques.
ArtisanCAD is a skill-guided industrial CAD agent that uses expert-grounded knowledge distillation to convert ambiguous prompts into executable CAD procedures, improving performance on the Text2CAD benchmark and enabling editable B-Rep models for complex automotive components.
A browser-based Haskell-powered programmable CAD environment that runs via WebAssembly, requiring a large WASM blob download.
A developer ports the open-source 2D CAD application LibreCAD to run in the browser using WebAssembly and Qt's WebAssembly support, leveraging a large language model for assistance.
Presents Embodied CAD, a closed-loop framework that grounds LLM agents in a CAD execution environment for parametric B-Rep assembly modeling, using solver feedback for planning and refinement.
Adam CAD Copilot is an AI assistant for CAD design, integrated into Onshape and Fusion.
Announcement of the 2026 Summer Open CAD Speedmodeling Tournament hosted by Too Tall Toby. Registration is closed and the qualifier leaderboard is available.
BIM-Edit is a benchmark for evaluating LLMs on natural-language editing of Building Information Models (BIM) in IFC format. Results show a substantial gap, with the best model achieving only 49.5% average score across geometric, semantic, and topological metrics.
Hanno Braun announces the shutdown of Fornjot, a six-year-old open-source CAD kernel project, citing unsustainable development pace and inability to deliver something meaningfully different from existing solutions.
Introduces FllumaOne, a multimodal CAD dataset of 100,000 samples generated by executable Python programs in the Flluma CAD system, providing feature trees, STEP geometry, point clouds, and language descriptions to support editable CAD research.
Claude Fable 5 generated a fully working CAD model of a V8 engine in under 10 minutes, demonstrating advanced 3D modeling capabilities.
step.parts is a searchable directory with over 12,000 open-source STEP files, making it easy for CAD modelers to quickly find and use standard parts.
This paper introduces a probabilistic polygonal representation for plane curves using Gaussian Mixture Models, preserving local tangent, normal, and arc length while encoding uncertainty in the normal direction. The framework applies to various plane curves and supports uncertainty-aware geometric modeling for CAD, robotics, and trajectory planning.