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Okay, I will read it and then probably need to google most of these :D
https://x.com/adamdotnew/status/2050264512230719980?s=20 Here you can see how code drives the modeling
This is very exciting.
Next step, I need the same for PCB design, with good understanding of EMI issues.
Mechanical Engineer here, stop using AI to deal with the most enjoyable part of design PLEASE An automated drafting too where I can describe design intent and requirements would be a million times better, especially if it is CAD context aware. I would say around 5-20% of mENG is not actually modelling, the endless pursuit of text to cad and other ai works is both not helpful and not enjoyable (PS: The feature tree re…
AI in CAD are solutions searching for a problem... :/
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That still sounds much slower than actually making it yourself. Also you have to take extra time to review the agent's work. The idea of it making subtle errors, hard to find, non-obvious errors is off putting.
you need to get off pudding.
Mechanical engineer here. The idea of having to sift through every intricate detail this thing spits out, just to guard against one hallucinated miscalculation making its way into the real world, is enough to keep me up at night. This AI shit is getting ridiculous.
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Could be camera and canvas to CAD - be more apt for your use case? Something akin to minority report + AI? Asking seriously. Context: Have some overlapping interest in the space because I am prototyping a camera based edge device that allows for AR/AI interactions.
The problem is more so that I think I'd need a brain-machine interface to get what I want. If I'm brainstorming a way to solve a problem mechanically, some if it is drawing but honestly a lot of it is just imagining it in my head. From there I go straight from imagination or sketches to CAD, which is why text-to-CAD or drawing-to-CAD generally doesn't work, the act of making the CAD file is how you learn and figure o…
There are more elegant solutions to this problem. Why are you trying to get an LLM to work with bloated, archaic tools that you have to rent from a feudal lord in the cloud when there are free open-source alternatives like OpenSCAD. This is just one example of a superior tool that's natively easy for LLMs to interact with, because the source files are just composable scripts containing lists of shapes and then lists…
You won’t be taken seriously if you push OpenSCAD - it’s simply not a tool that professionals will adopt due to not doing Breps. I think the recent progress of FreeCAD and its spin-off libraries cadquery and build123d will be better to push.
There is an OpenSCAD Workbench in FreeCAD --- does it work so as to get a workable representation?
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I second the friend's opinion. A lot of the people who post online have no experience with the paid PCB tools and those tools already have quite a lot of automation, and the automation interfaces work between different CAD & EDA vendors. Shared, hierarchical, and repurposed schematics are also totally a thing. I spend almost no time on boiler plate stuff. And with good constraints, which require serious thought and u…
> those tools already have quite a lot of automation Not to mention the level of customization and tooling that companies like Apple have themselves built out around the PCB tool. Playing around with Cadence at home is going to be a different experience than using it at a large tier1 company. I was mostly sticking with more systemic factors against AI adoption, but I agree with you completely. As you said, profession…