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I'm not familiar enough with CAD what type of format is it?

ponyous 1y ago
It’s not a format, but in my mind it implies designs that are supposed to be functional as opposed to models that are meant for virtual games. It generated a blender script that makes the model.
- bilbo0s 1y ago
  Did your prompt instruct it to use blender?
  - ponyous 1y ago
    Yes. I’ve been working and refining the prompt for some time now (months). It’s about 10k tokens now.
    - JulesRosser 1y ago
      Would you mind sharing the prompt please?
- adastra22 1y ago
  I would have used OpenSCAD for that purpose.
  - ponyous 1y ago
    I started with a lighter weight solution (JSCAD) first and quickly hit the limitations. So I wanted to explore the other side of it - fully complex over the top software (blender). I guess openscad would be a sweet spot in the middle. Good shout, might experiment.
    - adastra22 1y ago
      Blender is not CAD. Edit: I’m not but picking. Totally different data structures and internal representations.
      - ponyous 1y ago
        Computer aided design. Tree.js can be CAD. But I agree it’s not meant for CAD even though you can do it.
        adastra22 1y ago
        Three.js is not CAD. It is an API for drawing 3D graphics in a browser. 3D graphics, in general, is not CAD. Blender is not CAD. You cannot do CAD operations in blender. I'm not being nit picky here. I think there are issues beyond terminology that you may not be familiar with, as it is clearly not your field. That's ok. The "design" in computer aided design is engineering design. This is not the same definition of "design" used in, say, graphic design. Something is not called CAD because it helps you create an image that looks like a product on a computer. It is CAD because it creates engineering design files (blueprints) that can be used for the physical manufacture of a device. This places very tight and important constraints on the methods used, and capabilities supported. Blender is a sculpting program. Its job is to create geometry that can be fed into a rendering program to make pretty pictures. Parasolid is a CAD geometry kernel at the core of many CAD programs, which has the job of producing manufacturable blueprints. The operations supported map to physical manufacturing steps - milling, lathe, and drill operations. The modeling steps use constraints in order to make sure, e.g., that screw holes line up. Blender doesn't support any of that. To an engineer, saying that an LLM gave you a blender script for a CAD operation is causing all sorts of alarm klaxons to go off.
        viraptor 1y ago
        > Blender doesn't support any of that. ... without plugins. https://www.cadsketcher.com/ https://www.cadsketcher.com/
koakuma-chan 1y ago
When I see CAD, I always think of Casting Assistant Device.
- Traubenfuchs 1y ago
  Zero magic in this world, sorry.

It’s not a format, but in my mind it implies designs that are supposed to be functional as opposed to models that are meant for virtual games. It generated a blender script that makes the model.

bilbo0s 1y ago
Did your prompt instruct it to use blender?
- ponyous 1y ago
  Yes. I’ve been working and refining the prompt for some time now (months). It’s about 10k tokens now.
  - JulesRosser 1y ago
    Would you mind sharing the prompt please?
adastra22 1y ago
I would have used OpenSCAD for that purpose.
- ponyous 1y ago
  I started with a lighter weight solution (JSCAD) first and quickly hit the limitations. So I wanted to explore the other side of it - fully complex over the top software (blender). I guess openscad would be a sweet spot in the middle. Good shout, might experiment.
  - adastra22 1y ago
    Blender is not CAD. Edit: I’m not but picking. Totally different data structures and internal representations.
    - ponyous 1y ago
      Computer aided design. Tree.js can be CAD. But I agree it’s not meant for CAD even though you can do it.
      - adastra22 1y ago
        Three.js is not CAD. It is an API for drawing 3D graphics in a browser. 3D graphics, in general, is not CAD. Blender is not CAD. You cannot do CAD operations in blender. I'm not being nit picky here. I think there are issues beyond terminology that you may not be familiar with, as it is clearly not your field. That's ok. The "design" in computer aided design is engineering design. This is not the same definition of "design" used in, say, graphic design. Something is not called CAD because it helps you create an image that looks like a product on a computer. It is CAD because it creates engineering design files (blueprints) that can be used for the physical manufacture of a device. This places very tight and important constraints on the methods used, and capabilities supported. Blender is a sculpting program. Its job is to create geometry that can be fed into a rendering program to make pretty pictures. Parasolid is a CAD geometry kernel at the core of many CAD programs, which has the job of producing manufacturable blueprints. The operations supported map to physical manufacturing steps - milling, lathe, and drill operations. The modeling steps use constraints in order to make sure, e.g., that screw holes line up. Blender doesn't support any of that. To an engineer, saying that an LLM gave you a blender script for a CAD operation is causing all sorts of alarm klaxons to go off.
        viraptor 1y ago
        > Blender doesn't support any of that. ... without plugins. https://www.cadsketcher.com/ https://www.cadsketcher.com/

koakuma-chan 1y ago

When I see CAD, I always think of Casting Assistant Device.

Traubenfuchs 1y ago
Zero magic in this world, sorry.