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Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

3•reacharavindh•5h ago
I’m a hobbyist woodworker. I manually design simple things in Shapr3d with a lot of patience when I build things. I wonder in the time of LLMs if there is an effective way to accelerate the 3D model design using AI.. Anybody tried using AI to model wood projects? Any tools to recommend?

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maouida•5h ago
I'm a developer and hobbyist woodworker too :)

I'm also the developer of FluidCAD. It has an MCP you can wire to any LLM. It runs locally on your machine.

It is still missing features for splitting the model into parts, but that is coming in a future release.

https://fluidcad.io/

MCP config (node.js required): https://fluidcad.io/docs/cli/#fluidcad-mcp

variodot•1h ago
I'm building ShopSpec (https://shopspec.io/) for this kind of workflow. I'm a woodworker and use it for my own home and shop builds.

It's a woodworking domain engine and parametric furniture builder focused on projects like bookshelves, cabinetry, and shop furniture. It works out the parts, joints, cut list, etc.

There is an MCP component in beta (https://shopspec.io/agents) that allows an agent to explore designs while the engine still does the math. To take a design to CAD, a project can be exported as DXF or as a Ruby script that rebuilds it in SketchUp Pro.

It's narrower than Shapr3D, but it might fit the projects you describe.

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