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Kalinowski: Current AI models cannot generate true parametric solid CAD models
“Claude can do what is essentially surfaces or point clouds. This is not real CAD. Real CAD is in my world is dense. Like it has shape. It has nerves. Like you have an equation for how, how the surfaces work. And it's an entity that's designed in CAD. It's a so…”
Kalinowski: Hardware CAD automation requires AI world models to understand physics
“These LLMs and even video models, they don't know how to do that. They don't have the ability to understand friction or weight or contact pressure friction, surface texture. Like they're just not able to do these things. And this is the core of what we need. A…”
Lample: Frontier models underperform in legal and CAD due to missing benchmarks
“Things around, like, legal, finance, computer-aided design, all of these things that it's, these models out of the box are never too good at that, because people really don't prioritize this, there is no, like, too many benchmark on that but it's not hard to m…”
Truell: Cursor originally started as an AI CAD tool for mechanical engineers
“Yeah, initial false start of working on, ah, working on mechanical engineering actually, and working on mech models to help people be more productive within CAD systems, and also building, building our own sort of CAD system.”
Esposito: CAD Delays Remodeling Sales by Preventing Instant On-Site Visualization
“And sales happen when people see value and they're emotionally excited. CAD cannot deliver that, because I have to leave the person's home when they're most excited and most wanting to do it, but then the fear comes in because they can't visualize it, and we c…”
Noone: Zoo built the first GPU-optimized cloud CAD geometry engine using CUDA
“So our view was we would start with this geometry engine. That's the world's first GPU optimized cloud-based API accessible CAD engine. We built that from scratch. So that's CUDA, which is kind of GPU level machine language CUDA level implementation of those c…”
Noone: Hardware engineers historically lacked code-based CAD automation tools
“And that code allows scripting, automation, scaling, things like equations and database lookups and logic, things that sound obvious to anyone who's done software before. Of course, you'd think that software could write a loop that changes the geometry of a fe…”
Powers: Physna operates as autofill for 3D CAD design
“So FISNA is best thought of as like an auto fill for three design. So if you're in the process of designing something, FISNA will try to guess what you're designing and search throughout your database be it through CAD or PLM or whatever you use to see if you'…”
Powers: Physna acts as predictive autofill for 3D CAD design
“So FISNA is best thought of as like an auto fill for three design. So if you're in the process of designing something, FISNA will try to guess what you're designing and search throughout your database be it through CAD or PLM or whatever you use to see if you'…”