VisCAD is a foundation model suite that tackles AI-assisted computer-aided design for industrial products, covering both part-level and assembly-level generation. Its core component, VisCAD‑M1, is a 27B model trained for part-level design generation and outperforms existing models on PubCADBench and RealCADBench, achieving a part-level score of 0.5540 and reaching 0.5797 when used as a test-time verifier. VisCAD also offers a domain-specific harness that improves complex assembly generation compared to general-purpose harnesses, showing quantitative and qualitative advantages.
By JoyIndustrial VisCAD Team, Linxin Cai, Qiuhe Hong, Zhichao Huang, Guanlin Li, Hongsen Liu, Ziqi Liu, Yichen Long, Luya Wang, Yuchen Wang, Wenxiang Wu, Huimu Yu, Ning Zhang
arXiv:2606. 01702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning in computer-aided design (CAD) remains fundamentally constrained by the data scarcity challenge: authentic CAD data is difficult to collect at scale, while synthetic data may not faithfully reflect real design practice.
By Ziqin Gao, Zhijie Yang, Qiang Zou
arXiv:2605. 01171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent progress, recovering parametric CAD construction sequences from geometric input, such as meshes or point clouds, is a key challenge for design and manufacturing, as existing CAD reconstruction and generation methods are largely restricted to difficult-to-edit formats like meshes or Breps or editable simple sketch-and-extrude pipelines and low-complexity datasets.
By Ghadi Nehme, Eamon Whalen, Faez Ahmed
arXiv:2606. 31252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can write plausible CAD scripts, but reliable industrial CAD modeling requires more than syntactically valid code: every feature, placement, and assembly relation must be accepted by an exact geometric kernel while remaining editable as parametric boundary representation geometry.
By Fumin Liu, Haoyu Zhou, Fei Hao, Lin Yang
CADKnitter is a compositional CAD generation framework that uses geometric-guiding cues to steer diffusion sampling, enabling the creation of complementary CAD parts that satisfy both geometric constraints of an existing model and semantic constraints from a text prompt. The authors introduce KnitCAD, a dataset of over 310,000 CAD models paired with textual prompts and assembly metadata to support training and evaluation. Experiments show that CADKnitter outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines by a clear margin.
By Tri Le, Khang Nguyen, Baoru Huang, Tung D. Ta, Anh Nguyen
Design-to-Plan is a large language model–based multi‑agent framework that automates end‑to‑end manufacturing process planning from 3D CAD models and 2D engineering drawings. The system uses an orchestrator to coordinate specialized agents for feature recognition, drawing analysis, context fusion, knowledge retrieval, process sequencing, tool selection, and report generation, integrating deterministic modules with LLM reasoning. Evaluation on 300 benchmark cases shows high success rates, strong tool selection accuracy, effective conflict detection, and reduced token usage, demonstrating the framework’s ability to produce consistent, traceable design‑to‑plan outputs.
By Muhammad Tayyab Khan, Lequn Chen, Wenhe Feng, Seung Ki Moon
arXiv:2607. 05123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models and programmatic CAD have significantly improved Text-to-CAD generation for individual parts.
By Yurui Dong, Shu Zou, Siqi Li, Nianchen Deng, Hongbin Zhou, Xuemeng Yang, Pinlong Cai, Licheng Wen, Xinyu Cai, Botian Shi
arXiv:2607. 05750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-aided design (CAD) for industrial components requires long-horizon procedural modeling, robust feature dependencies, editable parametric geometry, and production-grade B-Rep execution.
By Yunhan Xu, Qifeng Wu, Xunjin Li, Yuanwei Bin, Qingsong Yao, Jianghang Gu, Guan Wang, Weihao Lv, Huiyu Yang, Wenfa Luo, Jiao Xiang, Yuntian Chen, Shiyi Chen
Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.
By Adam Zewe | MIT News
arXiv:2606. 05445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We dream of AI agents that can read arbitrary designs and construct real-world objects from reusable building blocks.
By Jiateng Liu, Bingxuan Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Rushi Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Cheng Qian, Jiayu Liu, Denghui Zhang, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Manling Li, Heng Ji
Recent advances in large language models and programmatic CAD have significantly improved Text-to-CAD generation for individual parts. However, production-ready mechanical assembly generation remains largely unsolved.
arXiv:2606. 05058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) underpins modern engineering and manufacturing by enabling the creation of precise, editable 3D models.
By Jingyuan Chen, Sheng Jin, Haopeng Sun, Wentao Liu, Chen Qian