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Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds
- odig 3mo agoLarp.
- hahahaa 3mo agoLike it.
- thx67 3mo agoNot signing up if there isn't even a hero animation showing what it does.
- hahahaa 3mo agoI got enough feel from scrolling down. But only just. They need more demoage for sure. Good demo for AI IMO is do 50 canned prompts with cached answers running at simulated speed. Zero AI cost to demo and can be made available without login.
- OsamaAtwi 3mo agoamazing! what are you designing?
- hahahaa 3mo agohttps://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrAPPij8imQ2psBLZ1NHb0MrUwreSDvexvTd-__m9L4infTTt6o5L_C9E&s=10 https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrAPPi...
- cassianoleal 3mo agoAccount created 7 days ago, post that adds nothing to the conversation. Flagged.
- lewi 3mo agoTyped out an entire prompt on the homepage, hit enter, was redirected to sign-up & completed it. My few hundred word prompt wasn't saved/persisted. :'(
- Double_a_92 3mo agoSame. Hated it so much.
- Tade0 3mo agoHaving dealt with similar problems on the implementation side it's incredible how in this day and age it's still so difficult to pass state through sign-in or sign-up. Half of the reason appears to be how the Oauth 2.0 standard is written - it purposefully forbids browser-specific items like the hash fragment in the URL. For passing state you have the "state" field but, despite the name, its original purpose was to prevent XSRF attacks, not store data. Vendor libraries don't go to huge lengths to help here, as they settle on complying with the standard.
- ImHereToVote 3mo agoWhy not just use OPFS?
- Tade0 3mo agoWhat if you're redirected to a different origin? Not a common use case, but it does occur when you e.g. have several services and select where to go in the sign-in form. Ideally one should be able to pass structured state throughout, but all we have is `state` really.
- ImHereToVote 3mo agoSure but the idea is that your content should be on the same origin after the redirect.
- holowoodman 3mo ago
- 55555 3mo agoIt actually works pretty well.
- OsamaAtwi 3mo agoGreat! what did you design?
- shevy-java 3mo agoNot really.
- 2muchcoffeeman 3mo agoWhat was your prompt and what did you design. I’ve tried Gemini (paid) in the past with openscad and then designed the same object myself and I was 10 times faster
- dvh 3mo agoUx on mobile is very bad. First you lure me with a prompt, but when I type it it's lost and I'm redirected to login page. Ok, I signed up, logged in. On mobile the progress panel is 1cm wide, I didn't notice and I set the same prompt now I have 2 generating and no way to cancel. You (correctly) started title of this post with the word "generate" that is your core feature, everything else I see on mobile is unrelated bullshit, including the carousel, including the "choose your role" dialog. On mobile there should be prompt (50% of screen real estate), a generate button, output/progress (50% of screen real estate) and hamburger button that hides everything else. The generation haven't finished yet, I will report when it finishes to see if core feature is even usable.
- OsamaAtwi 3mo agoMobile is tricky, since such design software are very difficult to use on a small mobile screen. We are looking into it though. How was the generation?
- dvh 3mo agoIt's not tricky. I literally told you how it should look like on mobile. Still generating, 53 minutes.
- dvh 3mo agoUpdate: on second try the generation succeeded, the output was hallucination, completely unrelated to the prompt. Useless. Image comparing what I wanted and what was generated: https://files.catbox.moe/kplzpk.png https://files.catbox.moe/kplzpk.png
- Mashimo 3mo agoBlog, youtube channel and landing page is kinda sparse when it comes to examples. And I'm not going to sign up just to test it. I agree with the other ones, have 20 cached examples or at least some videos that show the process from start to finish.
- OsamaAtwi 3mo agoThank you for the feedback! we will consider them both for the website and the product. We have several examples in the product, we will push them to be present on the webpage
- shevy-java 3mo agoNo you won't. This is just corporate soothing. Show us the results. Don't talk about the future. Everyone can yield empty promises "in the future". That means nothing.
- nl 3mo agoI've been doing a lot of 3D design in Codex GPT 5.5 (I found Opus 4.7 wasn't as good - haven't experimented much with 4.8 or Fable). OpenSCAD is a parametric CAD programming language, and the models know it well. The biggest challenge is communicating words like "inside" and "above" to the model - inevitably it's idea of which direction is which is often different. I can't say I've done anything very hard, but for things like ESP32 cases, or parametric rod connectors it is great. You can do things like "add snap connectors" and it'll do a great job.
- 2muchcoffeeman 3mo agoCan you share prompts and the output? I’ve tried building fairly simple models and it doesn’t grasp that I am building a solid object.
- nl 3mo agoIt's not one prompt, but here is a parametric rod connector: Use SCAD and design a connector for square rods. The rods are 18.2 mm square. I want to connect two end-to-end. .. make if the bolt holes are created optional for each side - I want to set them separately. Make them M3.5 countersunk .. it's the +X or -X sides I want to turn the screw holes on or off. .. on each of the 4 sides of the connector add additional connectors at 90 degrees. Make each optional etc etc
- wojciem 3mo agoTried two very open ended prompts: "Home robot" and "Jet engine". First one returned only two plates connected with 4 rods, second model did not produce any 3d model at all. Curious whether some hierarchical modeling could be applied here.
- felooboolooomba 3mo agoAsked for a specific tool and got a tool holder? I hope this project succeeds but it's not ready for prime time HN.
- globalnode 3mo agoasks you to enter a description, and when entered, hits you with a sign in dickover.
- shevy-java 3mo agoIt wants me to log in, so I am their product. No thanks.
- dhumph 3mo agoExamples guys. You are telling me a lot and not showing me. Get rid of the home page animation that does nothing and replace it with examples that show real world use cases, step by step.
- xpct 3mo agoWould be curious to hear from folks who do modelling: My first reaction from seeing the examples on the page, is that they are somewhat simple, almost standardized, or come from templates. They also don't look very time-consuming to model yourself. The product advertises itself on the parameterization aspect, but my hunch is that practitioners have their personal library of models which can be rescaled without much work. Is that somewhat accurate?
- alden5 3mo agoUnless I know I’m making a ton of variations of a model I’ll usually start from scratch every time. Maybe I’m blinded by my own experience but describing unique geometry with just words seems so much harder than just using regular cad. I design fixtures on a manufacturing line for a living and so I spend most of my time turning people’s ideas into 3d models and nobody can explain what they need with just words. People definitely try to explain what’s in their head but words aren’t enough for anything more complex than the examples on the page above. I always need to see a physical demonstration in person or a napkin sketch.
- oschrenk 3mo agoI had a lot of fun with https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova A library/toolkit for the Swift programming language to built parametric 3d objects. Give Claude access to the docs and examples and you can do amazing things.