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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by amelius on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:38AM (#37954821)
The main problem I have with most CAD software is that I can't do:

    1. create an object, e.g. a cube
    2. perform lots of random transformations
    3. perform the inverse of the above transformations
    4. subtract the object from the original object
    5. end up with exactly nothing
How are modern approaches solving this (robustness), if at all?
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by ahmetrcagil on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:12AM (#37955051)
What is the inverse operation of, say, beveling?
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by amelius on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:26AM (#37957443)
Beveling is a lossy operation, so there is no inverse in general.
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by iancmceachern on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:26AM (#37964563)
Deleting the bevel
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by abrouwers on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:52AM (#37955369)
As someone who does CAD work (product design) every day, I'm curious about the use case? Starting with Surfaces (in Creo, at least) can be provide such flexibility.
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by amelius on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:11AM (#37956284)
I don't have a practical usecase, it's just the fact that most CAD software is not mathematically correct that bothers me.
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by dymk on Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:09PM (#37968613)
As far as I'm aware, we do not have the math needed to do what you're imagining. CSG requires a lot of numerical methods even for relatively simple operations.
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by iancmceachern on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:41PM (#37963624)
Solidworks would do this no problem
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Re:Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities by iancmceachern on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:26AM (#37964561)
You can even use python or solidworks' own api to do it programmatically
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