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Re: Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds

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Ux on mobile is very bad. First you lure me with a prompt, but when I type it it's lost and I'm redirected to login page. Ok, I signed up, logged in. On mobile the progress panel is 1cm wide, I didn't notice and I set the same prompt now I have 2 generating and no way to cancel. You (correctly) started title of this post with the word "generate" that is your core feature, everything else I see on mobile is unrelated…

Mobile is tricky, since such design software are very difficult to use on a small mobile screen. We are looking into it though. How was the generation?

Re: Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds

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post #8

Ux on mobile is very bad. First you lure me with a prompt, but when I type it it's lost and I'm redirected to login page. Ok, I signed up, logged in. On mobile the progress panel is 1cm wide, I didn't notice and I set the same prompt now I have 2 generating and no way to cancel. You (correctly) started title of this post with the word "generate" that is your core feature, everything else I see on mobile is unrelated…

Mobile is tricky, since such design software are very difficult to use on a small mobile screen. We are looking into it though. How was the generation?

It's not tricky. I literally told you how it should look like on mobile.

Still generating, 53 minutes.

Re: Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds

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I've been doing a lot of 3D design in Codex GPT 5.5 (I found Opus 4.7 wasn't as good - haven't experimented much with 4.8 or Fable).

OpenSCAD is a parametric CAD programming language, and the models know it well.

The biggest challenge is communicating words like "inside" and "above" to the model - inevitably it's idea of which direction is which is often different.

I can't say I've done anything very hard, but for things like ESP32 cases, or parametric rod connectors it is great.

You can do things like "add snap connectors" and it'll do a great job.

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