text-to-cad v0.5, just in time for Astra - generate STEP, STL, GLB, 3MF, DXF files with code - runs locally as a library of agent skills - 100% open source and free have fun mechies

skills: install: npx skills add earthtojake/text-to-cad

text-to-cad writes headless build123d code to generate models, and has lots of plumbing to parallelize and cache builds. the latest release brings the builds up to parity with scripting in FreeCAD (built on the same kernel)!

One of the top CAD sloppers on X keeps slopping!

dude those valves are not even aligned to the pistons

This is very cool

Shouldn't we develop CAD-as-Code (CAC ™️) tech first? Would be even easier as a middle step to eventually land on Text-to-CAD LLMs don't you think? 🤔

mechies are gonna love the local agent skills for generating those file types

no thanks i prefer asking gemini to use openscad

what is this black magic fudgery

let's go @earthtojake !! Awesome update

so, I'm a specialized industrual structural engeneer now

Check mine at Used Fable 5.1 + opensource resources

This is crazy—in the best way. Could this approach be extended to apparel CAD software like CLO3D or TUKAcad? Could an AI agent read fashion designs, generate and adjust patterns, run 3D fittings, and iteratively refine them until it becomes an AI pattern maker?

wait the builds are build123d under the hood? then yeah STEP without babysitting FreeCAD is real

Wow, that looks like an Apple-preview..

no more freecad pain

Whats the license can i use this in my own saas

@SpaceScienceGod

When someone credible says the CAD kernels are dead and AI is producing parametric B-Rep CAD - I’ll start to pay attention.

I love the local-first angle. Polish on live doesn't outrank an unfinished build that lets someone actually generate and inspect the artifact.

This is from its built in viewer itself?

Excellent

I pull live ERP data and mapped the production floor

Your own agentic design office.

Which one?

is cad solved?

Holy duck

Local skills still travel when the lab pipe moves. Open files beat a locked demo.