CADFather is an autonomous system that reconstructs editable CAD models from 3D meshes by coordinating vision‑language assistants, learned and algorithmic tools, and numerical optimization. It evaluates and refines candidate CAD programs, maintaining alternatives for each part and preserving the best valid result throughout reconstruction. The system uses pretrained models without additional training and is evaluated on multiple benchmark datasets for reconstruction quality and execution validity.
By Gennadiy Savrasov, Maksim Elistratov, Nikita Gavrilov, Albert Garifullin, Oleg Pavlov, Soslan Kabisov, Vladimir Frolov, Anton Konushin, Andrey Kuznetsov, Dmitrii Zhemchuzhnikov
CADReasoner is a model that iteratively refines its CAD reconstruction by comparing the input shape with the predicted mesh, outputting a runnable CadQuery Python program. It fuses multi‑view renders and point clouds and uses a scan‑simulation protocol to bridge realism gaps during training and evaluation. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on DeepCAD, Fusion 360, and MCB benchmarks for both clean and scan‑sim tracks.
By Soslan Kabisov, Vsevolod Kirichuk, Andrey Volkov, Gennadii Savrasov, Marina Barannikov, Anton Konushin, Andrey Kuznetsov, Dmitrii Zhemchuzhnikov
arXiv:2605. 10873v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recovering editable CAD programs from images or 3D observations is central to AI-assisted design, but progress is difficult to measure because existing evaluations are fragmented across datasets, modalities, and metrics.
By Anna C. Doris, Jacob Thomas Sony, Ghadi Nehme, Era Syla, Amin Heyrani Nobari, Faez Ahmed
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
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
arXiv:2608.28669v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recovering an executable parametric CAD program from an observed object is fundamentally ambiguous, because the same final geometry can result from dif...
By Jizong Zhan
arXiv:2603. 05607v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) relies on structured and editable geometric representations, yet existing generative methods are constrained by small annotated datasets with explicit design histories or boundary representation (BRep) labels.
By Mohammad Sadil Khan, Muhammad Usama, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi
The paper introduces SightCAD, a framework for parametric CAD reconstruction that explicitly handles view feasibility constraints in realistic indoor scenes. It learns a view selector to choose a small set of feasible viewpoints for a vision‑language model that generates executable CadQuery code, and jointly trains the selector and the VLM using a reward that depends on the final geometric fidelity. The approach outperforms baseline methods on several benchmarks, achieving higher intersection‑over‑union scores and a lower invalid‑code rate.
By Kartik Bali, Mahish Guru, Yiderigun Borjigin, Alexandra Starostina, Christian J. Cyron, Roland Aydin
arXiv:2607. 04119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing Computer-Aided Design (CAD) modeling sequences from images is crucial for preserving design intent and supporting parametric editing.
By Zhaopeng Feng, Chen Zhi, Xuhong Zhang, Zhengwen Feng, Xinkui Zhao
arXiv:2609.22688v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating parametric CAD models requires accurate geometry and stable feature dependencies. Existing methods face challenges in selecting geometric re...
By Xi Cheng, Chenxi Zhai, Hang Cheng, Mingyu Fan, Pingfa Feng, Long Zeng
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.
By Yipeng Gao, Lei Shu, Genzhi Ye, Xi Xiong, Ameesh Makadia, Meiqi Guo, Laurent Itti, Jindong Chen
IterCAD introduces an iterative program‑repair framework for generating executable parametric CAD code from dimension‑annotated orthographic drawings. Unlike one‑shot vision‑language models, IterCAD repeatedly evaluates the current CAD output, identifies discrepancies with the target views, and decides whether to revise the code or stop refining. The authors build a structured revise‑or‑stop dataset (IterCAD‑RS) and a three‑stage training pipeline—initial generation, revision learning, and multi‑turn reinforcement learning—to enable this progressive correction, achieving higher code executability and geometric fidelity on the CADExpert benchmark.
By Yuchuan Wu, Ke Niu, Haiyang Yu, Zhuofan Chen, Xiangyang Xue, Bin Li