alt Hacker NewsPrintytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL
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It's a nice demo and appreciate the guides on what won't work well. Also pretty nice to be able to try it out anonymously without having to sign in.
It'd be nice to have some info on how it's substantially different from something like https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad (besides from being hosted). Is there a 'document' format you're working with besides from being able to export to stl? Can we download that / continue our work with another editor if we need to make updates? I guess how far into production parts is this project aiming to go?
This was very unexpected to wake up to this morning! I'm seeing about 10 to 20 times the traffic I normally would.
Please if you have any user feedback or bugs or feature requests - let me know! I'm listening.
I'm just trying to make a product people love and delivers value.
And if you find it useful, please share it with a friend.
This is really cool. I'm interested in getting into 3d printing parts to help with my wood working but I can't find the time to get productive in CAD software. Something like this feels like it might tip the balance into having a 3d printer actually save me time instead of becoming another black hole of tinkering time.
Seems similar to https://nurb.dev/ which can run entirely local.
Oh wow. I ran FreeCAD today to design a little block with 2 holes to 3D print - just a little spacer.
This did in in 2 messages, I'm impressed.
I'll like to extend my compliments to the creator (is it op?). Generated a 17*17 MURA mask within 3 messages.
Dude! This is so freaking cool. Curious to know how much are you spending in LLMs to generate each model.
Pretty impressive demo. Though I’m not looking forward to even more slop models to go through in 3d print catalogs such as makerworld
This is implemented well.
FWIW: I find explaining to Claude or Gemini what I want and that I’m using Openscad works super well. The bonus is that I can make further changes in Openscad or continue the chat to further refine the code.