Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

Re:Show HN: AI in SolidWorks by skybrian on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:47PM (#46596069)

I think a good UI would be to prompt it with something like "how far is that hole from the edge?" and it would measure it for you, and then "give me a slider to adjust it," and it gives you a slider that moves it in the appropriate direction. If there were already a dimension for that, it wouldn't help much, but sometimes the distance is derived.

I'd love to have that kind of UI for adjusting dimensions in regular (non-CAD) images. Or maybe adjusting the CSS on web pages?

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Re:Show HN: AI in SolidWorks by WillNickols on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:26PM (#46596694)

I think that would make a lot of sense for non-CAD images, but the particular task you described there is do-able in just a few clicks in most CAD systems already. I think the AI would almost always take a longer time to do those kinds of actions than if you did it yourself.

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Re:Show HN: AI in SolidWorks by skybrian on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:44PM (#46596787)

For experts maybe, but beginners would probably find asking questions about how to do things useful.

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