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by Doerge 3 days ago
Is CADAM also what's used for the commercial product adam.new? How did you manage to write all those plugins? If it is also CADAM isn't stuff getting lost in the Fusion/Solidworks/Onshape -> OpenSCAD -> back process? Do constraints and everything just seamlessly import/export?

Some comments here mention tolerances/functional requirements. Do you think the LLM/screenshot loop will scale to that too? Maybe rendering subassemblies individually until they make sense? Still feels like a full functioning V8 engine block needs _a lot_ of ghost-view screenshots to verify it works. What's your thoughts on a "simulation" approach, since it's not aligned with your bitter-lesson-blog-post?

Are you able to reveal more about what kind of traction you have? 10s/100s/1000s of companies?

Very cool open source project, and thanks for sharing so much!

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The same principles of an agent writing cad as code and then visualing inspecting the output in a loop runs through all our products. Whilst CADAM uses OpenSCAD, Fusion uses Python, Onshape use FeatureScript etc..

The majority of our enterprise traction is on our flagship product: https://adam.new/

Here you can connect to your engineering software and use AI to generate:

- CAD - Renderings - Slides for design review - BOM

and much more!