Prompting for "A robot arm" turns up a blank design ;(
Text-to-CAD
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#22The only LLM-as-a-service I use is phind for the sole reason that it allows me to use it without "signing up" first. If the sign up is a necessary barrier for your needs is for you to decide, but I just wanted to let you know that I was excited to try your product for my wood working and 3d printing needs until the required signup. Just some anecdata that even a little friction can be a hindrance in people using your…
If I may ask, why are you so against signing up for these tools?
I am not the OP, but I also skipped on trying the demo, because I didn't want log with my real email into a random website (a few too many times it led to unwanted interactions), and I didn't bother to create a temp account.
It's just easier to wait another few months until somebody does it in the open.
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#23Great start! I have a feeling this is going to cascade (no pun intended) in ways we haven't quite wrapped our heads around. What is the underlying technology here? Is this an LLM driven workflow or Image generation driven workflow? I can imagine a way to do something similar either way given a dataset geared a particular direction. Speaking of... anyone have a lead on a CAD-esque dataset? I have been trying to use lo…
It says they're generating a STEP file, and that's just a text format. Fine-tuned LLM would be my guess.
Most programming language source is just text, how often does GitHub Copilot get things wrong when generating code fragments?
There is an ISO directive to not use any of their standards when training an LLM, would be interested to know what this group has done.
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#24As a prompt "An aircraft enough like a 737 that pilots don't need to recertify but with newer engines", what could go wrong?
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#25I'm really looking forward to the future of this area, especially parallel developments in image-to-CAD. It would be incredible to get an accurate model by taking a couple of photos and then inputting measurements. Sure, you can 3D-scan something, but that makes a messy point cloud when real world objects are mostly make out of primitives that could be far more exactly duplicated.
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#26Is the site working? It accepts input, but the windows just show "Generating", even though the message "You are all caught up" appears.
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#27Great start! I have a feeling this is going to cascade (no pun intended) in ways we haven't quite wrapped our heads around. What is the underlying technology here? Is this an LLM driven workflow or Image generation driven workflow? I can imagine a way to do something similar either way given a dataset geared a particular direction. Speaking of... anyone have a lead on a CAD-esque dataset? I have been trying to use lo…
Looks like it's using a language model to create a modeling script.
> ... In the future, we will give you the generated KCL (KittyCAD Language) code so that you can edit it in our Modeling App!
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#28What about dimensions? It's a good starting point, but which software can use this to alter the dimensions precisely? This should have been called Text-to-3D.
> Today, you can take the generated STEP file of any CAD model from Text-to-CAD and import it into an existing CAD program and edit it. Even more exciting, in the future, we will give you the generated KCL (KittyCAD Language) code so that you can edit it in our Modeling App!
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#29When ever I see CAD mentioned on hackernews it's always 3D and never the more ubiquitous (in the construction industry) 2D documentation CAD. I wonder if this would be able to generate 2D vector files.
The gateway to 3d cad is a properly functioning 2d cad system.
At least, that’s how I view 3d.
At the very least, the tool should be able to do additive and subtractive operations (boolean). Union, add, subtract, intersect, etc.
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#30When ever I see CAD mentioned on hackernews it's always 3D and never the more ubiquitous (in the construction industry) 2D documentation CAD. I wonder if this would be able to generate 2D vector files.
It’s trivial to take a 2D image DALLE3 or midjourney generate and vectorize it (illustrator etc.)
If you're getting your engineering plans from Midjourney etc., something is likely to explode.