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Create and edit CAD models into production-ready prototypes

  1. 1FG

    Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling. What it does: - Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM-aware context management) to local models running on consumer hardware - Takes an 8B model from ~53% to ~99% on multi-step agentic workflows without changing the model - just the system around it - Ships with an eval harness and interactive dashboard so you can reproduce every number I wanted to run a handful of always-on agentic systems…

    May 2026 · github.com

  2. 2AC

    Hi HN, I'm Zach, one of the co-founders of Adam (https://adam.new). We've been on HN twice before with text-to-CAD/3D experiments [1][2]. The honest takeaway from those threads: prompt-to-3D model web apps are fun, but serious mechanical engineers don't want a black box that spits out an STL. They want help inside the CAD tool they already use, with full visibility and control over the feature tree. So we built that. Adam is now a harness that integrates directly with your CAD. It reads your parts, understands the existing feature tree, and edits it for you agentically. We are…

    May 2026 · fusion.adam.new

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    agentcad110

    A CAD design tool for coding agents (free + open source)

    Jun 2026 · agentcad.dev

  4. 4JA

    Hello HN, I don't post on here much, but wanted to get some eyes on a new project I'm just launching. I think we definitely need one more AI code agent.. I'm a long-term C++ dev, and over 30+ years I've created some successful audio dev tools (JUCE, the Tracktion DAW, the Cmajor DSP language). All of these came from me getting annoyed with something I had to use, and deciding to have a go at my own take on whatever it was. So Juggler is my attempt at an AI code agent, after spending too many hours loving what the models could do, but hating the CLI experience, and having some opinions of…

    Jul 2026 · github.com

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    CADAM87

    AI Tinkercad

    Jun 2026 · adam.new

  6. 6

    The best AI design agent to go from idea to production

    Apr 2026

  7. 7

    Real-time observability dashboard for OpenClaw AI agents

    Feb 2026

  8. 8SM

    We built a model router that plugs into coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) and intelligently sends requests to the best model to serve them. Here's a quick demo of running it locally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isKhAyivtfM. At Weave, we write most of our code with AI, and it's been getting more expensive. This came to a head when Opus 4.7 was released and, thanks to its tokenizer changes, our costs shot up. We knew we didn't need Opus for everything but we didn't want to lose out on the intelligence for the cases where you really need it. So we decided…

    Jun 2026 · github.com

  9. 9

    AI CAD inside Onshape and Fusion

    Jul 2026 · adam.new

  10. 10

    Transform 2D images into immersive 3D models with AI

    2025

  11. 11PB

    2016 · prandtl.design

  12. 12

    The first AI agent for product, design, and code

    Nov 2025

  13. 13

    From words to manufacturing-ready parts.

    Jun 2026 · meshra.ai

  14. 14OA

    Hi HN, we built world-model-optimizer, an open source tool to continually improve a specialized model for an agent. It does this by simulating production tool responses through text world modeling (similar to QwenAgentWorld, summary here https://x.com/silennai/status/2073887455884058814). We can then use this to train a router for frontier, OS, and local models (use defaults or pick which ones to optimize against). wmo ingests agent traces, builds the simulation, embeds the traces, runs different models you choose against the simulation scenarios, and then uses a KNN…

    Jul 2026 · github.com

  15. 15

    The AI agent for synthetic data generation

    Nov 2025

  16. 16CW

    2024 · cadwithai.com

  17. 17

    Open-source MCP bridge for Blender AI workflows

    20d ago · github.com

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    MeshPilot102

    Your AI workspace for terminals, tasks, and agents

    Jun 2026 · meshpilot.in

  19. 19

    Generate print-ready D&D miniatures from text or image

    Apr 2026

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    Turn text into real CAD files

    Jul 2026 · aicadgen.com

  21. 21QA

    Q12 is a new web-based 2D parametric drawing tool built specifically for geometric problem solving, for playing interactive "what if" games with drawings, and for the design and optimization of mechanisms. Q12 has the usual set of drawing constraints found in other CAD tools (e.g. "lines are parallel") but also supports inequality constraints, area constraints, and arbitrary expressions between geometric quantities. We built Q12 to solve problems like those below, after finding that existing CAD systems couldn't handle them well: * Given dimensions on a surveyor's map, figure out if the…

    Feb 2026 · q12.app

  22. 22

    Free AI text to CAD generator

    Jun 2026 · textocad.com

  23. 23IB

    I run a small AI lab and playground and got super excited about Anthropics paper "Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models" (https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspace/index.html) It talks about how they use a tool they call a Jacobian Lens to view inside the middle layers of LLM while it's working before it commits to a word (token). I wanted to see if I could get a version of this running on the open models and to my surprise it worked! I ran some experiments with it and build a public facing free tool anyone can use with your…

    Jul 2026 · lucid.earthpilot.ai

  24. 24MR

    The most common failures for production agents are behavioral: looping, reasoning leakage, user frustration, and more. Using a frontier model like GPT or Sonnet to judge every turn is too expensive and slow to run at scale. To solve this, we built Reflexes: semantic signals from agent traces, served fast and cheap over API. Built on custom kernels and a custom inference engine forked from vLLM. Under the hood, it is a small LLM architected around multi-head inference. Small models need to be trained for specific tasks, but running 50 separate small models on the same input for 50 tasks makes…

    Jun 2026

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