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It did a great job with this prompt. Got it done in about the time it would take me to login and load Fusion. I forgot to include the wire diameter but it made a reasonable assumption and included it in the params for edits "Make a grommet seal for a hole in an aluminum pipe where a cable goes through. The hole is 0.48 inches in diameter. The wall of the pipe is .25 inches thick. Make the seal split so it can be inst…
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…
The most difficult thing about these projects is for me to consider why anyone would want to use words to describe a 3D object. How do you reference objects? Saying "Make the hole at the end of the bracket 3 mm and move it up" isn't going to cut it. How do you know which end of the bracket I mean, and which direction does up refer to? So then I'd have to be more precise in what I'm asking for, and structure my words…
I would love a text to Blender Animation to Things to Print then things to machine (CNC).
I find all current LLMs to have pretty poor spatial awareness. It is becoming better, but still very poor. How are you dealing with that? Got any special tricks, any advice?
I write about this in detail here: https://adam.new/blog/bitter-lesson-ai-cad This is improving greatly in recent model releases
"Before working at Adam I worked at an AI Lab called Adept. We trained foundation models to do actions on a computer.
What does computer use now? The best general models. They just got good at it."
You were working for 4 months in Adept. What could you deliver or even learn in such a short period of time?
Sounds like an excuse tbh
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> shitty 3D prints don't count Why not? The 3D print market is pretty large and tools to generate some designs that can then be tweaked are pretty useful in that context. I don't think that type of AI CAD tool would replace professional CAD work, that's something that requires way too much context and human judgement. But being able to prototype something to be 3D printed via an AI thing is one of the few places wher…
Yes I intentionally called this AI TinkerCAD
perfect