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• There is a bevy of AI-to-CAD tools coming out. Some are finding users; some are raising millions in funding. Many new ones are coming out all the time, so we...
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The two I’d like to focus on for now are checkers and Text To STL. Checkers are now quite overlooked. But if we look at what LLMs are very good at—categorizing and matching things—they could become very powerful. AI, more generally, is great at spotting patterns and deviations from them. You can review their work, and they just highlight mistakes. This means they can make mistakes, but you can ignore them. And it means they take dreary work out of your hands and help you be more successful and faster, without threatening your work. There’s also a lower chance of developing faulty geometry; more importantly, faulty geometry that you won’t know is faulty until it’s too late. Checkers, therefore, could very well achieve broad adoption much more quickly than other tools, where people may be fe