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by johnvanommen 30 days ago
> So I would really appreciate a good AI/LLM tool that I can feed my sketch and parameters and it can save me hours of searching web and watching tutorials on how to extrude a circle over a curve

I think this is possible, but the ‘trick’ would be translating your instructions in English into some kind of language that the CAD software understands.

I’m on a bunch of 3D printing forums, and everyone tries to describe what the finished product would LOOK like. They end up making PICTURES when what they really want is a STL file.

Two dimensions are easier to visualize then three, so let’s put it this way:

If you wanted to turn “English” into “a 2D image that’s dimensionally accurate”, you’d want to translate from “English” to “SVG.”

SVG is dimensionally accurate. JPG isn’t. The file format itself has no concept of “dimensions” only “pixels.”