One concept I explored was creating an interactive app where users can experiment with different material options—essentially a real-time configurator. There’s a great example here [1], where if you model an object as a .obj file (possibly similar to Adam’s parametric models), you can tweak its materials and colors dynamically. IKEA seems to have something similar in production for some of their products [2].

I experimented with Adam as well, and it did a surprisingly good job. The only catch: if you try to iterate too much, it tends to alter the form of the object. My ideal version of this would involve a professional photographer capturing high-resolution images of, say, a couch. Then I’d upload them into Adam, generate realistic renders with different fabrics or finishes, and download the final variants as high-quality images to use in catalogs or ecommerce.

[1] https://angon.me/experiments/6/

[2] https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ektorp-2-seat-sofa-hakebo-grey-...

[3] https://app.adamcad.com/share/2f1e68ad-2cdd-4613-8fdc-fc33f2...

Have you considered providing built-in tools for mesh decimation and UV unwrapping? I know it can be quickly done with meshlab, but I imagine not a lot of Adam users would even understand the need for decimation. Any possibility for also automating rigging?

The "creative" mode seems to be ok, but my main interest (the parametric) failed in my first test: generate a bottle.

But anyway, good job!

I asked for "something cute" and got a cute panda. I asked it to make its eyes bigger, and it did.

It wasn't a clean model by any means, but damn, pretty good considering I can probably fix this up faster than I could create it from 0.

https://github.com/jhacksman/OpenSCAD-MCP-Server

Quite surprised that:

>Create a gridfinity storage unit with dividers

failed so badly (it created a vertically oriented wall-mount type thing with two extraneous recesses at the top)

The thing is, OpenSCAD is dead simple for things which can be modeled using cubes, cylinders, and spheres (and mathematical transformations/positioning of such components) --- that's the great thing.

The awful thing is one's ability to model in OpenSCAD is strongly limited by one's fluency with mathematics (and esp. trigonometry) --- if this tool could help with that latter aspect it would be far more interesting to me (but I'm obviously not the target audience).

Copilot + GPT-4 can generate build123d Python code; procedural CAD genai. It's spatially incoherent sometimes like there's not much RLHF for 3d in the coding LLM model, but the code examples are close to compiling and helpful. There's also an ocp-vscode extension to render build123d and cadquery CAD models in a tab in the vscode IDE: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/external.html#ocp...

PartCAD is probably useful for your application as well.

Are there metadata standards for CAD parts, assemblies, and scenes? For example in PartCAD or in a BIM Building Information Model that catalogs part numbers and provenance for the boardroom hinge screws and maybe also 3D-printable or otherwise fab-able CAD models?

nething is an LLM with build123d output: https://nething.xyz/

FWIU it's possible to transform B-rep (boundary representation) to NURBS with a different tool.

B-rep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_representation

NURBS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_rational_B-spline

glTF 2.0 > Adoption of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlTF#Adoption_of_glTF_2.0

PartCAD > Features > Generative AI: https://partcad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features.html#gener... :

> Individual parts, assemblies and scenes can also can be exported into 3D model file formats, including: STEP, BREP, STL, 3MF, ThreeJS, OBJ, GLTF, IGES

Can you upload an existing model and start working from there?

I have noticed that the tool does not do quite what I want it to. It reminds me of MidJourney a couple years ago. I might have to build a workflow where I design parts in Adam and arrange them in other tools. As details I supply for arrangement appear to being applied to individual parts.

Do you have any language that is getting better results than others?

Or parametric structural optimization / topology optimization with parametric constraints?

Or, rather, if these are out of scope for your tool, then I'm wondering, like the other comment, how you'll slot into existing pipelines that do facilitate these techniques.

I'm not in the industry, I'm just curious.

There are a lot of tools to convert figma into code, but is there a reverse? Say you have code already and you neglected figma. Any way to create the figma and iterate on it through an LLM?

I wonder if you think this is still true given how much better the foundation models are now.

Sadly, this appears to be a no go.

But then we need to fill these 3D scenes.

Generating 2D pictures and 2D movies doesn't excite me much. But generating a 3D scene which I can then open from Blender or whatever, modify stuff, change the camera angle, lighting, models, etc. is going to open so many possibilities.

It's exactly the same for audio: I don't want a wav file generated. I want all the individual tracks that I can open in a DAW.

Both are coming. I'm 100% sure about it.