[nisegami]

The only time text-to-SCAD has ever worked for me was when Claude (the app, not even Claude Code) decided spontaneously to spin up an environment and check the renderings of its SCAD code. That session lead to something 90-95% of the way to the finished product, and in some ways even surpassing my expectations by looking up measurements for relevant products instead of using placeholders.

Modifying the prompt and then trying it again did not lead to that self-verification loop and the output was unusable garbage.

[hadlock]

GPT5.5 one-shotted an entire mandolin for me. Like, the whole thing, ready to 3d print or CNC. Well, two shotted, the fender style neck came out so good (I didn't think it could do it) I asked for the body and it made the matching body with correct neck pocket etc. with bolt holes. SCAD is really rough, I agree, but cadquery is great for this sort of thing for whatever reason. I linked the pastebin upstream in this same comments section if you want to check it out.