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Re:Show HN: AI in SolidWorks by moffkalast on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:07PM (#46595439)
I needed some gears generated recently, and figured I could just get it done with Claude or Chatgpt in OpenSCAD in a few minutes... but oh man was I wrong. I was so wrong.

Wasted half an hour generating absolute nonsense if it even compiled and ended up going with one of those svg gear generators instead lmao.

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Re:Show HN: AI in SolidWorks by CamperBob2 on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:43PM (#46595692)
You'd probably have been better off giving it a basic summary of OpenSCAD grammar and asking for a C or Python program to emit the code.
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Re:Show HN: AI in SolidWorks by knicholes on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:06PM (#46609704)
That worked! I didn't have to give it the grammar, though. https://github.com/knicholes/llm-gears
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