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AI CAD copilots: the assist pattern every vendor is chasing
Every major CAD vendor now has an AI copilot, assistant, or companion. The pattern is the same everywhere: an AI that watches you work and tries to help. The results vary wildly.
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Zoo text-to-CAD API tutorial: from curl to production
A practical tutorial for the Zoo.dev text-to-CAD API, starting with a curl command and ending with a Python script that generates STEP files in a loop.
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The Text2CAD paper: what the NeurIPS research actually says
The NeurIPS 2024 Text2CAD paper introduced the first end-to-end framework for generating parametric CAD from natural language. Here's what it does, what it proved, and what it doesn't solve.
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Can you self-host text-to-CAD?
If you want to run text-to-CAD on your own servers for IP protection or offline use, the options are thin. Here's what exists.
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Text-to-CAD file formats: what comes out and whether it's usable
Text-to-CAD tools output STEP, STL, glTF, OBJ, and DXF. Only one of those formats matters for real engineering work, and it's the one most tools handle worst.
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Text-to-CAD open source: what exists and what's missing
Open-source text-to-CAD is early. CADAgent works inside Fusion 360, OpenSCAD pairs naturally with LLMs, and FreeCAD has Python scripting. But there's no fully open alternative to Zoo.dev yet.
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Text-to-CAD API: what's available and how to use it
If you want to generate CAD models programmatically from text prompts, there's basically one real API right now. Here's what it can do.
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Text-to-CAD API with Python: a developer walkthrough
A practical walkthrough of calling text-to-CAD APIs from Python, including the Zoo/KittyCAD SDK, handling responses, and saving STEP files.
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DeepCAD dataset: the training data behind text-to-CAD
Most text-to-CAD models learn from the DeepCAD dataset: about 170,000 parametric CAD models. That's not a lot. Here's why that matters.
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KittyCAD Python SDK: getting started
The KittyCAD Python SDK is how you talk to Zoo.dev's text-to-CAD API from code. Here's how to set it up and what to watch out for.