Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by Doerge on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:17PM (#48576229)

Is CADAM also what's used for the commercial product adam.new? How did you manage to write all those plugins? If it is also CADAM isn't stuff getting lost in the Fusion/Solidworks/Onshape -> OpenSCAD -> back process? Do constraints and everything just seamlessly import/export?

Some comments here mention tolerances/functional requirements. Do you think the LLM/screenshot loop will scale to that too? Maybe rendering subassemblies individually until they make sense? Still feels like a full functioning V8 engine block needs _a lot_ of ghost-view screenshots to verify it works. What's your thoughts on a "simulation" approach, since it's not aligned with your bitter-lesson-blog-post?

Are you able to reveal more about what kind of traction you have? 10s/100s/1000s of companies?

Very cool open source project, and thanks for sharing so much!

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Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by zachdive on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:41PM (#48576573)

The same principles of an agent writing cad as code and then visualing inspecting the output in a loop runs through all our products. Whilst CADAM uses OpenSCAD, Fusion uses Python, Onshape use FeatureScript etc..

The majority of our enterprise traction is on our flagship product: https://adam.new/

Here you can connect to your engineering software and use AI to generate:

- CAD - Renderings - Slides for design review - BOM

and much more!

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