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Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by ezst on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:33PM (#47589914)
That people on this forum convinced themselves that it's a reasonable take to vibe code a useful geometric kernel is profoundly depressing.
Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by progbits on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:10PM (#47592029)
Indeed. I would love for it to be true, but aside from opencascade^1 all the professional kernels are proprietary and not in the training set, so LLMs can't just regurgitate them.

^1: Which I really appreciate, but let's be real, it is far behind eg. parasolid.

Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by faangguyindia on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:51PM (#47590176)
Just wait for sometime, there will be one.

There are many geniuses on HN for tacking up challenge

Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by fainpul on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:06PM (#47590390)
So you think AI can do this – why exactly is a genius needed?
Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by faangguyindia on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:52PM (#47595810)
genius is needed in pilot seat to guide AI :)
Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by WillAdams on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @08:42AM (#47600067)
Vibe coding only seems to work, insofar as it does when the training data includes multiple exemplars of solutions to a given problem.

As noted elsethread, there's only one geometric kernel which is decently far along and opensource and it's over 1 million LOC --- I doubt it's being included in any training data, and I doubt that an LLM could regurgitate such a large project which would then compile w/o errors and then work as expected --- the number of tokens required to get such a project to an initial state is a marked hurdle as well.

Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by stackedinserter on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:17PM (#47590552)
Correct me if I'm wrong, kernel is already there, and it's decent enough. What's lacking is a good user interface to it.
Re:Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) by progbits on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:11PM (#47592050)
FreeCAD is perfectly good user interface for opencascade. The problem is that as your geometry gets more complicated you start running into the kernel limitations.