Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.
The article introduces "InstructMesh," a new tool that allows users to repair AI-generated 3D models and then fabricate them exactly as desired. It can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and suitable for both experts and newcomers to 3D modeling.
arXiv:2608.00800v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Injection molding is the cornerstone of mass-producing plastic components. While current algorithms can automate mold design for basic geometries u...
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.
arXiv:2606. 30429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-3D systems can now synthesize a mechanical part from a single sentence, yet the result is a shape to render, not a design to edit.
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.
arXiv:2605. 28579v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently advanced text-driven 3D generation, yet Text-to-CAD remains far from supporting industrial product design.
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.
Computer-use agents are increasingly evaluated in realistic desktop environments, but existing benchmarks provide limited coverage of professional engineering workflows whose outputs are persistent, s...
arXiv:2606. 01057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Procedural 3D modeling through code is emerging as a versatile paradigm, offering deterministic, engine-ready, and precisely editable assets that neural 3D generators inherently lack.
arXiv:2609.16251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents are increasingly evaluated in realistic desktop environments, but existing benchmarks provide limited coverage of professional engi...
arXiv:2606. 28126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article addresses the combinatorial complexity inherent in modern high-tech system design by presenting automation-in-design (AiD) as a transformative paradigm.