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> difficulty of generalizing chamfers/fillets. There's a reason that basically all FOSS CAD packages have struggled with it. Could you decompile CAD, run it th

by echelon 7mo ago

> difficulty of generalizing chamfers/fillets. There's a reason that basically all FOSS CAD packages have struggled with it. Could you decompile CAD, run it through an LLM, and call it a day?

yonatan8070 7mo ago
Aren't there licesing issues with porting a proprietary implementation into an open-source one that could open up the project to legal issues with the proprietary vendor?
- WillAdams 7mo ago
  The Plasticity guy seems to be threading that needle.
  - voakbasda 7mo ago
    That might seem to be the case, right up until he gets taken to court over it. Never presume that a thing is legal (or will not later be punished) on the basis that someone is already doing it.
    - echelon 7mo ago
      You can't stop it. This is just progress. All software that isn't delivered over client/server to thin clients is now subject to being trivially cloned.
      - voakbasda 7mo ago
        That was never in question, even before AI. It just took more monkeys at typewriters.