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

The linked page has 3 down updates, then says it's back up again after the 3rd one. So presumably resolved.
I love this!

Stupid question: Would BIM solve these issues? I know northern Europe are somewhat advanced in that direction. What kind of digitalization pace do you see in the US?

Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:36PM (#13564724)
I see that it is a _nice_ demo, but don't see how this ends up as #1 here?
Re:Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:25PM (#13564658)
Expected to see a simple ray tracer break down on some edge case. Saw a simple ray tracer, simply ray trace. Was quite disappointed. Why is this posted? What value does it add?