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Founder @digitalmetalinc, CAD enthusiast, We make the fastest castings in the west!

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Building an Artificial Casting Engineer (ACE) "Building hardware at the speed of software" remains immensely challenging because the traditional software for engineering, and more specifically manufacturing (Solvers, CAM, etc,) is too damn slow. Introducing Ace-Mini-1, the 1st purpose built AI Casting model from Digital Metal. Ace-Mini-1 is another tiny parameter model fine tuned on casting simulations (filling, solidification, deformation, and more) that cuts an average industry leading solve time of ~65 minutes down to just 0.26 seconds with an average error rate less than 5% across all data. An 8042x speedup in complex CFD with phase change sim time. Ace-Mini-1 allows engineers and agents to close mfg process iteration loops faster, run 100s of simulations in seconds, and optimize geometry and manufacturability of your part.

Building an Artificial Casting Engineer (ACE) "Building hardware at the speed of software" remains immensely challenging because the traditional software for engineering, and more specifically manufacturing (Solvers, CAM, etc,) is too damn slow. Introducing Ace-Mini-1, the 1st purpose built AI Casting model from Digital Metal. Ace-Mini-1 is another tiny parameter model fine tuned on casting simulations (filling, solidification, deformation, and more) that cuts an average industry leading solve time of ~65 minutes down to just 0.26 seconds with an average error rate less than 5% across all data. An 8042x speedup in complex CFD with phase change sim time. Ace-Mini-1 allows engineers and agents to close mfg process iteration loops faster, run 100s of simulations in seconds, and optimize geometry and manufacturability of your part.

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It's kinda crazy that with an iphone and 15 minutes you can produce accurate 3D scans and point clouds this is a part we're reverse engineering for a customer, window hinge from the 30's, no CAD or drawings available

It's kinda crazy that with an iphone and 15 minutes you can produce accurate 3D scans and point clouds this is a part we're reverse engineering for a customer, window hinge from the 30's, no CAD or drawings available

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Custom Cast Steel Pulley, 1040 Steel From a STEP file to a cast metal part in Days. How do we do it? A Thread 🧵 (1/6)

Custom Cast Steel Pulley, 1040 Steel From a STEP file to a cast metal part in Days. How do we do it? A Thread 🧵 (1/6)

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Building an Artificial Mechanical Engineer: All of the "AI CAD" demos you've seen have been essentially the same thing, a frontier lab LLM writing code that is translated by an existing geometry kernel into a 3d B-rep model. I think this approach is fine, but generally lossy, and lacks true spatial understanding and geometric reasoning that humans naturally posses and apply when encoding their designs in a CAD system. So I attempted to do something unique in the generative design space, building off of other generative 3d research, and trained my own (two tiny, 16M Parameter) AI models on a hyper specific set of data. Introducing FieldGeo - a set of models that encode geometry, physics (FEA, Stress) and DFM into the same latent space, and reproduces (assisted with an additional design agent) geometries to meet the stated cases. Today, it's just for L shaped brackets.

Building an Artificial Mechanical Engineer: All of the "AI CAD" demos you've seen have been essentially the same thing, a frontier lab LLM writing code that is translated by an existing geometry kernel into a 3d B-rep model. I think this approach is fine, but generally lossy, and lacks true spatial understanding and geometric reasoning that humans naturally posses and apply when encoding their designs in a CAD system. So I attempted to do something unique in the generative design space, building off of other generative 3d research, and trained my own (two tiny, 16M Parameter) AI models on a hyper specific set of data. Introducing FieldGeo - a set of models that encode geometry, physics (FEA, Stress) and DFM into the same latent space, and reproduces (assisted with an additional design agent) geometries to meet the stated cases. Today, it's just for L shaped brackets.

84,820 views • 18 days ago

Introducing digicast: The world’s first instant quote & mfg service for metal casting! - No CNC design limits - No high metal 3D printing costs - No die casting tooling minimums - 50% fewer steps, 75% faster turnaround Get solid metal parts—faster & cheaper. ⬇️

Introducing digicast: The world’s first instant quote & mfg service for metal casting! - No CNC design limits - No high metal 3D printing costs - No die casting tooling minimums - 50% fewer steps, 75% faster turnaround Get solid metal parts—faster & cheaper. ⬇️

298,193 views • 1 year ago

Introducing Digital Metal. we make cast metal parts, fast. we've built the tools to accelerate reindustrialization, starting with metal casting. aerospace, defense, auto, and robotics - from CAD file to solid metal part in days, not weeks, made in the heart of SF.

Introducing Digital Metal. we make cast metal parts, fast. we've built the tools to accelerate reindustrialization, starting with metal casting. aerospace, defense, auto, and robotics - from CAD file to solid metal part in days, not weeks, made in the heart of SF.

122,727 views • 1 year ago

Introducing instant quote and target DFM feedback for cast metal parts. Now live in the Digital Metal quote engine. - Instant pricing on your cast metal part - Sub 10-second targeted DFM feedback - Adjust your model, reupload, and order. Get better cast parts, faster.

Introducing instant quote and target DFM feedback for cast metal parts. Now live in the Digital Metal quote engine. - Instant pricing on your cast metal part - Sub 10-second targeted DFM feedback - Adjust your model, reupload, and order. Get better cast parts, faster.

21,409 views • 2 months ago

I built a manufacturing-aware CAD interpretation engine that uses LLMs to query any step model's geometric data, saving $10k/Yr on analysis software. This web-based CAD analysis tool is a workbench for developing bespoke DFM tools for manufacturing services.

I built a manufacturing-aware CAD interpretation engine that uses LLMs to query any step model's geometric data, saving $10k/Yr on analysis software. This web-based CAD analysis tool is a workbench for developing bespoke DFM tools for manufacturing services.

50,853 views • 8 months ago

I built an interactive tool to map the relationships in CAD modeling software, their underlying geometry kernels, and the companies that own them. try it out at

I built an interactive tool to map the relationships in CAD modeling software, their underlying geometry kernels, and the companies that own them. try it out at

35,163 views • 6 months ago

We built the geometric intelligence layer for manufacturing and AI. Blazing fast, critical manufacturing data from just a CAD file. Features: - Quick DFM & feature checks - Rapid thickness, clearance, and draft analysis - Deterministic, configurable rulesets for mfg method - CNC (3ax & 5ax), Casting, Additive, Molding - API and MCP We know it works, the API already powers Digital Metal's Quote engine, cutting the typical lead time for casting quotes from 2 weeks to just 10 seconds. What others are already using it for: - RL generative AI CAD models to produce manufacturable designs - a design Engineering copilot - a pre-sales tool for large orders of parts. - other instant quote mfg businesses. Shipped today. API/MCP integrations available.

We built the geometric intelligence layer for manufacturing and AI. Blazing fast, critical manufacturing data from just a CAD file. Features: - Quick DFM & feature checks - Rapid thickness, clearance, and draft analysis - Deterministic, configurable rulesets for mfg method - CNC (3ax & 5ax), Casting, Additive, Molding - API and MCP We know it works, the API already powers Digital Metal's Quote engine, cutting the typical lead time for casting quotes from 2 weeks to just 10 seconds. What others are already using it for: - RL generative AI CAD models to produce manufacturable designs - a design Engineering copilot - a pre-sales tool for large orders of parts. - other instant quote mfg businesses. Shipped today. API/MCP integrations available.

19,090 views • 3 months ago

the VERY first part from our prototype casting process was a success! (kinda) - Dimensionally Accurate casting - Within 0.02mm tolerance - features greater than 0.7MM This part would be priced at $64, a step change in affordability for complex metal parts.

the VERY first part from our prototype casting process was a success! (kinda) - Dimensionally Accurate casting - Within 0.02mm tolerance - features greater than 0.7MM This part would be priced at $64, a step change in affordability for complex metal parts.

58,781 views • 1 year ago

Digital Metal - the fastest way to get cast metal parts - is live We made this complex dual sided drone motor mount in less than a day from receiving the customer's CAD file. We're saving hard-tech teams hundreds of hours so that we can win the race to reindustrialization.

Digital Metal - the fastest way to get cast metal parts - is live We made this complex dual sided drone motor mount in less than a day from receiving the customer's CAD file. We're saving hard-tech teams hundreds of hours so that we can win the race to reindustrialization.

46,952 views • 1 year ago

cad model --> quote > 30 seconds digicast is the first to offer instant quoting in the metal casting space why metal casting? metal casting has less restrictions - design what you want, how you want it, and get it made fast and cheap. cast quote: ~$150 CNC quote: ~$350

cad model --> quote > 30 seconds digicast is the first to offer instant quoting in the metal casting space why metal casting? metal casting has less restrictions - design what you want, how you want it, and get it made fast and cheap. cast quote: ~$150 CNC quote: ~$350

47,854 views • 1 year ago

We just dropped the most robust DFM (design for manufacturability) guide for Investment Cast parts. Super useful for our awesome customers to have all this information right upfront. Really shows the amazing design freedom we unlock here Digital Metal

We just dropped the most robust DFM (design for manufacturability) guide for Investment Cast parts. Super useful for our awesome customers to have all this information right upfront. Really shows the amazing design freedom we unlock here Digital Metal

11,655 views • 3 months ago

Did you know that 20% of the products you interact with daily have a cast metal part? Cars, Planes, Trains, even doorknobs! Before, there was no way to prototype with cast metal without sacrificing quality or spending TONS of money. We're changing that with DigiCast ⬇️

Did you know that 20% of the products you interact with daily have a cast metal part? Cars, Planes, Trains, even doorknobs! Before, there was no way to prototype with cast metal without sacrificing quality or spending TONS of money. We're changing that with DigiCast ⬇️

35,692 views • 1 year ago

We make custom cast metal parts, fast. - design to final cast in 28 hours. - fine details and thin walls down to 0.5mm See the progress ⬇️

We make custom cast metal parts, fast. - design to final cast in 28 hours. - fine details and thin walls down to 0.5mm See the progress ⬇️

21,177 views • 1 year ago

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