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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 #48588492
yup!
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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 #48578781
nice!
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Comment #48577708
Sweet!
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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!