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zachdive

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    Comment #48588505

    Gemini 3.1 whilst not the best agentic coding model, has extremely strong vision (which makes it reason spatially very well). Fable 5 was top for a brief moment, whilst it was arou…

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    Comment #48588490

    Could I see what you tried to generate?

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    Comment #48588487

    To be completely honest CADAM is not at all a revenue driver for us. The majority of our customers are on our flagship app: https://adam.new/ which uses OpenCascade and allows you …

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    Comment #48588451

    Thank you for giving it a shot!

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    Comment #48578896

    CADAM is pretty good at building Gridfinity

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    Comment #48577703

    Most of our users on CADAM are makers/tinkerers. Their #1 usecase is to generate a printable stl file for which openSCAD is ideal (LLMs are very good at generating it) For professi…

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    Comment #48577502

    You can use https://adam.new/ if you want to connect to your CAD applications or generate real breps

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    Comment #48577442

    tackling all that in: https://adam.new/ don't you worry ;)

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    Comment #48577181

    This is so the .scad file stays the canonical state. With -D, the rendered geometry diverges from what the file says.

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    Comment #48576830

    I agree openSCAD isn't anywhere near powerful enough for professional workflows. Hence why I framed this as AI TinkerCAD. However, you can drive any professional CAD software thoug…

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    Comment #48576573

    The same principles of an agent writing cad as code and then visualing inspecting the output in a loop runs through all our products. Whilst CADAM uses OpenSCAD, Fusion uses Python…

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    Comment #48576133

    Honestly I would've liked to MIT. It's mainly that the openscad wasm we use is GPL

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    Comment #48576128

    Yes it can! You can even use mesh mode which is very strong for this!

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    Comment #48576019

    I strongly believe that by scaling up LLMs we will get there. I write about this here in more detail: https://adam.new/blog/bitter-lesson-ai-cad

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    Comment #48575789

    yes i agree, this would probably fix it

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    Comment #48575783

    curious how this compares to on baseline: https://adam.new/ let me know!

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    Comment #48575691

    Yes I intentionally called this AI TinkerCAD

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    Comment #48575163

    I largely agree with you. It's case by case and the ideal ux imho is to have both.

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    Comment #48575140

    generally professionals our flagship app at https://adam.new/ hobbyists and makers use CADAM

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    Comment #48574860

    Fable is considerably better from my experience: https://x.com/LLMJunky/status/2065229625702109340?s=20 Fingers crossed it comes back!

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    Comment #48574760

    you can upload an image or a sketch! we actually have drawing suppor in our extensions, but we've found our users use it far less than we expected!