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I've been using Astra to just create things in Blender. It's great. Kill the scroll jacking. It's a sign you're on Windows.
by throwitaway222 19d ago
I've been using Astra to just create things in Blender. It's great.
Kill the scroll jacking. It's a sign you're on Windows.
- s-macke 19d agoExactly. I just give Astra an image such as furniture, and it creates an 3D reproduction in Blender. You don’t even need computer use. Codex and Blender’s scripting engine is enough.
- tayo42 19d agoCan you do this with the 20 dollar plan?
- raincole 19d agoYes, but it eats your 5-hour quota really quick.
- s-macke 19d agoI have an example here. Took 3 hours with Pro Plan. https://simulationcorner.net/chair/chair-evolution.gif https://simulationcorner.net/chair/chair-evolution.gif
- CamperBob2 19d agoThat's cool as hell.
- jrflo 19d agoCAD is a different beast than mesh modeling. For product design you need a parametric model that can have precise dimensions and is constructed mathematically step by step. Mesh modeling is just moving a pile of triangles around in a very imprecise way. Works fine for 3D printing or digital assets, but if you want something that can be manufactured that's not good enough. And there isn't a good way to go from STL -> Parametric CAD so there's still room for a product here.
- ur-whale 19d ago> there isn't a good way to go from STL -> Parametric CAD yet. as a matter of fact, you should try what AI can do on that problem, you'd be surprised.
- jrflo 19d agoI have tried, I really wish it would be better because CAD is a slog and I want it to be automated. It's pretty bad at real world tasks.
- ttul 19d agoIt's just a matter of time. Astra was trained on a new 3D modelling dataset. They will surely train it on CAD apps (if they have not already done so). I don't hold out much hope for competitors hoping to get in front of that train.
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- yakz 19d agoAstra can use build123d, too. You'll get a STEP out of that.
- jrflo 19d agoI've tried Sol on build123d and it was completely unusable, I should take another stab with Astra though.
- ricketycricket 19d agoI had a similar experience, but it worked just well enough that I wanted to try my own similar experiment, but using a functional API in Elixir and giving the agent some introspection tools. I'm very much a novice to this space and learning as I go, but I've been able to make some interesting projects with the library so far, which is all I really want to do: https://smith.hexdocs.pm https://smith.hexdocs.pm If you want to build by hand, there is a Kino renderer to build your projects interactively in Livebook, which is actually surprisingly helpful for learning.
- lukeinator42 19d agoI've had decent success getting Claude Opus to design models using the python cadquery library, and then I can import the step file to fusion 360 to make any changes I want afterwards.
- speedgoose 19d agoI gave some very bad sketch made in jspaint to Astra, plus some text instructions, and I got back some clean STL file and a beautiful 3D render. It even made a second STL file with the same model rotated for 3D printing. I remember all those hours on SolidWorks many years ago, and now you can just speak and present bad drawings to the computer, and it does it okay.
- monkpit 19d agoAre you hooking it up to blender via some MCP or are you just creating files and opening in blender?