alt Hacker NewsJust yesterday I used Claude to great effect in FreeCAD to model a church tower. The tower has a square base and an octagonal top, but connecting the two by creating a loft using the GUI in FreeCAD results in a wrong and ugly abomination.
Claude understood the problem and produced elegant Python code that worked perfectly the first time.
So I continued and described the other features of the tower to Claude, who coded them.
It's sometimes difficult to properly describe what you want in English, and Claude does a lot of thinking, and sometimes goes deep into a wrong direction of which it won't come out easily; but in the end the result is almost perfect.
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Can you describe how you hooked Claude up to freecad?
I've messed around with freecad a bit (I'm still a beginner) and was just saying today I'd like to play around with trying to use llm's for 3d modelling.
EDIT: I found this mcp[0] after searching, was it that? The docs mention Claude desktop, but I assume it works fine with Claude code too, right?
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I've been struggling to get Claude or Gemini to make a project enclosure. I've got it down to a decent set of requirements and have been trying FreeCAD Python output, OpenSCAD, and Build123d. Most attempts fail to generate output (after several minutes of thinking and getting a good way there). When attempts don't fail they get aspects wrong. At this point I think my workflow needs to be breaking up the request into a series of functions for each feature then iterating on the overall model.