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Very encouraging results. Spatial intelligence of LLMs was very bad, one year back. I spent quite some time to make them write stories in which objects are put

Very encouraging results. Spatial intelligence of LLMs was very bad, one year back. I spent quite some time to make them write stories in which objects are put into up and down positions, left and right, front or back, they always got hopelessly confused. I asked GPT which one is the most scriptable CAD software, it's answer was Freecad. Blender is not a CAD software as far as I understand, the user cannot make measurements like Freecad. Unfortunately Freecad's API is a little bit scattered and not well organized, GPT has trouble remembering/searching and retrieving the relevant functions. Blender is a lot more popular, more code on the internet, and it performs much better.

ThomPete 1y ago
Would it be possible to write a script for CAD that could do measurements
- emporas 1y ago
  Measurements are printed and given usually to construction workers, usually along some axis. People who lay the bricks take a top view from a house with the dimensions along the y axis. People who build the doors and windows take a side view of the dimensions along the x axis. And so on. Blender cannot do that as far as I understand. Something like that for example: [1] [1] https://all3dp.com/2/freecad-2d-tutorial/ https://all3dp.com/2/freecad-2d-tutorial/
  - ThomPete 1y ago
    Looks like it can
    - emporas 1y ago
      I may start using Blender if that's the case. I was waiting for some kind of success modeling 3D shapes using code, and automatically generating the code with LLMs, for quite some time.
bravesoul2 1y ago
OpenSCAD?
- emporas 1y ago
  OpenSCAD doesn't seem to be bad at all, but not thrilled with a custom language to write scripts on it. I found a Rust crate which might help. I haven't managed yet to write Rust and interoperate with FreeCAD or Blender, so if it is easier to write Rust for OpenSCAD I might settle on OpenSCAD. I have to experiment somewhat to find the most compatible with Rust between the three.

ThomPete 1y ago

Would it be possible to write a script for CAD that could do measurements

emporas 1y ago
Measurements are printed and given usually to construction workers, usually along some axis. People who lay the bricks take a top view from a house with the dimensions along the y axis. People who build the doors and windows take a side view of the dimensions along the x axis. And so on. Blender cannot do that as far as I understand. Something like that for example: [1] [1] https://all3dp.com/2/freecad-2d-tutorial/ https://all3dp.com/2/freecad-2d-tutorial/
- ThomPete 1y ago
  Looks like it can
  - emporas 1y ago
    I may start using Blender if that's the case. I was waiting for some kind of success modeling 3D shapes using code, and automatically generating the code with LLMs, for quite some time.

bravesoul2 1y ago

OpenSCAD?

emporas 1y ago
OpenSCAD doesn't seem to be bad at all, but not thrilled with a custom language to write scripts on it. I found a Rust crate which might help. I haven't managed yet to write Rust and interoperate with FreeCAD or Blender, so if it is easier to write Rust for OpenSCAD I might settle on OpenSCAD. I have to experiment somewhat to find the most compatible with Rust between the three.