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Such languages can be amenable to LLM generation, reducing barriers to entry.
by lovemenot 1y ago
Such languages can be amenable to LLM generation, reducing barriers to entry.
- aclindsa 1y agoJust yesterday I had an LLM write an openscad module for generating a 2d rounded rectangle. It worked great! I then tried to get it to write a module to extrude a 2d shape into a 3d shape and it failed spectacularly several times before I gave up.
- ponyous 1y agoInteresting. I’m building a SaaS around this idea. And I managed to do things waaay more complex than that using LLMs. Especially “several times”. My AI can do a parametric trophy cup from one prompt in a couple of attempts, I would be shocked if it didn’t know how to make rectangular cube…
- 2muchcoffeeman 1y agoI’ve tried getting Gemini to follow descriptions to generate a simple object in OpenScad. I finally got it to do what I wanted. But I’m much much faster and if didn’t have some amateur CAD experience, I don’t know I would have ever succeeded.
- jwagenet 1y agoThe hard part with 3d part creation isn’t the graphical interface or language, it’s actually describing and translating part requirements to a manufacturable design, weighing material, weight, fit, geometric, and cost tradeoffs. Openscad, opencascade, etc have been around for a long time and have specs for describing features in a way that llm should be able to handle, but if all the part constraints were available it’s far faster to make accurately in Solidworks.
- atrettel 1y agoThis is my experience too. I took a course a long time ago in design for manufacturing, and it became abundantly clear that just because you can conceive of an idea doesn't mean that you can build it. That requires a lot more work and technical know-how that isn't always put into books or other "training data".