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Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by munksbeer »

incorene2 wrote: post #58

What exactly is the use case for this? Just making pretty little 3d models? There are so many reasons why I, as an engineer, will never even attempt to use AI for mechanical design, that trying to list them all is about to give me an autistic screeching fit. Even if all I need is a simple little bracket or something, I can model that and know it's right much quicker than I can ask the AI to do it and then check it's…

I remember thinking like this about software development several years ago.

"AI will never be able to reason and write code as well as a human".

I was terribly wrong. I assume you will end up being wrong about engineering too.

Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by tricky »

I need custom bumpers for some exposed bolts on a boat lift that are scratching the hell out of my pontoon. Modeling them has been on my todo for months. Saw this and after 5 minutes of prompting I have four custom bumpers printing. This is a great product. Thank you.

Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by dmpanch »

No matter how much I’ve experimented with similar text-to-image projects including this one - the LLMs still don’t fully understand the visual feedback loop, and the results are far from what expected. And it doesn’t matter how the task is described, whether there’s a reference, or even if there’s a part of a finished model that just needs to be integrated into another component - the resulting models may be visually close to what is required, but they are not technically accurate.

Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by zachdive »

tricky wrote: post #102

I need custom bumpers for some exposed bolts on a boat lift that are scratching the hell out of my pontoon. Modeling them has been on my todo for months. Saw this and after 5 minutes of prompting I have four custom bumpers printing. This is a great product. Thank you.

Thank you for giving it a shot!

Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by zachdive »

fxtentacle wrote: post #95

Congratulations on the launch. The propeller demo looks good :) BTW, customising gears (which are then laser cut from sheet metal) is also a common request from untechnical people who need CAD help. How do you differentiate from other open source AI CAD solutions? I’ve also had a good experience with Claude Code and CadQuery, which is a Python toolkit for generating CAD designs based on OpenCascade. I.e. what’s your…

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 to connect to your CAD, PLM & PDM tools.

We built CADAM largely to give back to community and support a tool for hobbyists and individuals.

Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by zachdive »

dmpanch wrote: post #103

No matter how much I’ve experimented with similar text-to-image projects including this one - the LLMs still don’t fully understand the visual feedback loop, and the results are far from what expected. And it doesn’t matter how the task is described, whether there’s a reference, or even if there’s a part of a finished model that just needs to be integrated into another component - the resulting models may be visually…

Could I see what you tried to generate?

Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by zachdive »

momoraul wrote: post #97

Surprised Gemini 3.1 Pro beat Claude in your evals for code-gen. Any intuition why - spatial reasoning, or just cleaner OpenSCAD output?

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 around!

Re: Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Post by dmpanch »

zachdive wrote: post #106
dmpanch wrote: post #103

No matter how much I’ve experimented with similar text-to-image projects including this one - the LLMs still don’t fully understand the visual feedback loop, and the results are far from what expected. And it doesn’t matter how the task is described, whether there’s a reference, or even if there’s a part of a finished model that just needs to be integrated into another component - the resulting models may be visually…

Could I see what you tried to generate?

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