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lovemenotyesterday at 12:44 AM3 repliesview on HN

Such languages can be amenable to LLM generation, reducing barriers to entry.


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jwagenetyesterday at 1:43 AM

The hard part with 3d part creation isn’t the graphical interface or language, it’s actually describing and translating part requirements to a manufacturable design, weighing material, weight, fit, geometric, and cost tradeoffs. Openscad, opencascade, etc have been around for a long time and have specs for describing features in a way that llm should be able to handle, but if all the part constraints were available it’s far faster to make accurately in Solidworks.

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2muchcoffeemanyesterday at 1:24 AM

I’ve tried getting Gemini to follow descriptions to generate a simple object in OpenScad.

I finally got it to do what I wanted.

But I’m much much faster and if didn’t have some amateur CAD experience, I don’t know I would have ever succeeded.

aclindsayesterday at 1:22 AM

Just yesterday I had an LLM write an openscad module for generating a 2d rounded rectangle. It worked great! I then tried to get it to write a module to extrude a 2d shape into a 3d shape and it failed spectacularly several times before I gave up.

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