Zoo to merge Text-to-CAD directly into CAD modeling app in V1.0
Jordan Noone · Text-to-CAD: AI Revolutionizing Hardware Design with Jordan Noone of Zoo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Jul 26, 2024 · at 14:16
Jordan Noone, Executive Chairman of Zoo, describes the upcoming release combining their generative CAD engine with their interactive modeling environment.
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“Right now we're doing a push for what we call version one point O of both of those products. Those will actually merge together that rather than generating text to CAD and having a part, you can now do that in the modeling app and then make downstream changes.”
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