> I love code-based CAD.
So do I. A lot.
But wait until you try to pair it with an Agentic AI, it will simply blow you away.
Until, that is, you realize LLM's have strictly no sense of how 3D geometry works, but still, it's amazing.
So do I. A lot.
But wait until you try to pair it with an Agentic AI, it will simply blow you away.
Until, that is, you realize LLM's have strictly no sense of how 3D geometry works, but still, it's amazing.
I have not used Constructive Solid Geometry CAD MCPs myself (but I have used some of the AI model creators). Some of the videos I've seen look very cool.
But, I wonder how much longer the claim of "LLM's have strictly no sense of how 3D geometry" works will stand.
Last week I used Claude extensively to design the upgrade to my homemade pontoon boat. In addition to my textual descriptions, I uploaded pictures of hat channel cross-sections with dimensions and screenshots of my CAD drawings. I was asking questions about strength and stability and relationships between parts and evolved the design. It took some sort of world understanding of boats, relationships of parts, types of physical interconnects, materials properties. There's definitely some understanding going on.
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Actually, show rather than tell. I just took Cadova for a spin, using screenshots of my boat's CAD and the previous conversation. Then I vibe-coded my boat up with Cadova, in an agentic loop with Claude Desktop and VSCode and the Cadova Viewer and screen shots. Pretty wild. Certainly not perfect, and I don't think this is how I would actually go about it, but it was interesting!
There's nothing proprietary, so I'll made a quick GitHub project [1] since the Claude links don't show files.