So there's OpenSCAD, which is basically programming the geometry parametrically. But... I'd liken it to generating an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle at the current levels of LLMs.

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abdullahkhalids 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Will echo sibling. I have tried using Claude Sonnet for OpenSCAD to design a simple soap mold and it failed terribly in getting the rounded shape I wanted. (1) It's really difficult to explain 3d figures in text, and I doubt there is a lot of training material out there. (2) OpenSCAD is limited in what it can do. So the combination is pretty bad.

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moffkalast 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I needed some gears generated recently, and figured I could just get it done with Claude or Chatgpt in OpenSCAD in a few minutes... but oh man was I wrong. I was so wrong.

Wasted half an hour generating absolute nonsense if it even compiled and ended up going with one of those svg gear generators instead lmao.

	▲	CamperBob2 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You'd probably have been better off giving it a basic summary of OpenSCAD grammar and asking for a C or Python program to emit the code.