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
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
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:2606. 13368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-Aided Design is pivotal in modern manufacturing, yet existing automated methods predominantly rely on open-loop, one-shot generation, creating a mismatch with iterative real-world practices.
By Tao Hu, Jiaxin Ai, Licheng Wen, Xueheng Li, Shu Zou, Siqi Li, Nianchen Deng, Xinyu Cai, Hongbin Zhou, Pinlong Cai, Daocheng Fu, Yu Yang, Hairong Zhang, Botian Shi, Xuemeng Yang
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
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
arXiv:2608.30617v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reconstructing editable Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models from images is essential for downstream modification, manufacturing, and design reuse. Howev...
By Yihe Sun, Ziyu Lu, Kaihua Tang, Xian-Sheng Hua
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: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...
By Zihan Dong, Yuanzhe Liu, Zhiyuan Ma, Qishi Zhan, Dehan Kong, Guohao Li, Kaixin Li
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:2607. 05573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable the automatic generation of parametric 3D designs from natural-language specifications.
By J de Curt\`o, Victoria Guill\'en, I. de Zarz\`a