Looks like it's using a language model to create a modeling script.
> ... In the future, we will give you the generated KCL (KittyCAD Language) code so that you can edit it in our Modeling App!
Re:Text-to-CAD
by regularfry on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @06:58PM
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It says they're generating a STEP file, and that's just a text format. Fine-tuned LLM would be my guess.
Most programming language source is just text, how often does GitHub Copilot get things wrong when generating code fragments?
There is an ISO directive to not use any of their standards when training an LLM, would be interested to know what this group has done.
>There is an ISO directive to not use any of their standards when training an LLM
What? This seems mind bogglingly short sighted. You would thing a standards body of all places would want AIs outputting standards compliant output.
DXFs are also text files.
Do people really want train a LLM on CAD models treating them as text? I would be more interested in trying to work from the conceptual model behind the exchange file format.
Re:Text-to-CAD
by regularfry on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @06:57PM
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There's probably mileage in just generating python that calls the FreeCAD API.
What is the underlying technology here? Is this an LLM driven workflow or Image generation driven workflow? I can imagine a way to do something similar either way given a dataset geared a particular direction. Speaking of... anyone have a lead on a CAD-esque dataset?
I have been trying to use local llm's for openSCAD code generation. My results have been quite terrible, and I would rather use Fusion or Solidworks if I am going to "sit down" and CAD something. I would really like to see the dataset used for this or something similar. My guess is this is an openSCAD or similar workflow.