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Show HN: Nurb – Agentic CAD for 3D printing

https://github.com/Shpigford/nurb
1•Shpigford•47m ago
I've had a love/hate relationship with Fusion over the years. I can model stuff there but it's just always slow and painful and Fusion has a deep desire to crash on me.

I started dabbling with the Fusion MCP a couple of months ago and found that to be a much more pleasant way to interact with it. But then I realized I was just using Fusion as a rendering engine, which was terribly overkill.

So I built Nurb.

You just describe what you want ("Make an adapter that connects my shop vac hose to the dust port on my table saw") and it asks for clarification, does web searches for part measurements/details and then generates an interactive viewer as well as optimized STL files to print.

The whole system hangs on the convention that a part is a function, and its keyword defaults are its parameters. That concept drives the CLI, the viewer’s sliders, the tests, and the agent’s interface. There’s no schema, no project file, no init step. A project is any directory with a parts/ folder.

Under the hood it’s build123d on the OCCT kernel, so parts are B-rep solids with working chamfers, fillets, and STEP export, not meshes. That also means the model already knows the API, since build123d is in every training set.

The agent can’t see, so nurb check is its eyes. Printability rules (overhangs, thin walls, slivers, stability) run against the exact solid and come back as text with coordinates, so the agent can fix what it can’t look at. The rules were calibrated by porting my real parts catalog from Fusion.

It’s source-available under FSL-1.1-MIT. Install is a one-liner on https://nurb.dev, which also sets up the necessary SKILL.md file for you.

Works great with all major LLMs!

Claude users' shared conversations were showing up in Google searches

https://www.fastcompany.com/91580420/claude-users-shared-conversations-were-showing-up-in-google-...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•52s ago•0 comments

Darwin Among the Machines(1863)[pdf]

https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/e0da505d-200c-43ab-be4b-6604a4df816f/content
1•kelseyfrog•1m ago•0 comments

Procore to Acquire DroneDeploy for $845M

https://www.dronedeploy.com/blog/procore-to-acquire-dronedeploy-creating-next-generation-platform...
1•datadrivenangel•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindFlock – Parallel AI coding agents, each in its own Git worktree

https://github.com/MindFlock/MindFlock
2•emandel2630•3m ago•0 comments

Transfer context from one agent to another agent mid task

2•iamalizaidi•3m ago•0 comments

URL Design

https://www.jstools.space/blog/url-design-routing-query-parameters-fragments/
1•pentagrama•4m ago•0 comments

The Last Conjecture

https://the-last-conjecture.netlify.app/story.html
1•dawdler-purge•5m ago•0 comments

Imperial Russia

1•larmetjoel•5m ago•0 comments

AGI has arrived. We just call it backpropagation

1•thomastill•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Interactive Python Projects in the Browser – Trading Card Builder

https://www.codembark.com/projects/k3m9x2v4pd/trading-card-builder
1•camdenreslink•6m ago•0 comments

Garry Tan is a Rubyist and speaking at a RoR conference?

https://evilmartians.com/events/sf-ruby-startup-conference-2026
2•camimirabal•9m ago•1 comments

Anonymity Is Fun

https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/anonymity-is-fun/
1•theorchid•11m ago•0 comments

Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted

https://firstprinciples.com/blog-article/ai-system-theo-conjecture-solves-35-year-old-math-conjec...
2•otalp•11m ago•0 comments

A Shortlist of Potential Future Euro Banknote Designs

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html
1•karakoram•12m ago•0 comments

RimWorld's Code Defines Strict Gender Roles (2016)

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rimworld-code-analysis
1•Tomte•14m ago•0 comments

HAR Extractor

https://github.com/azu/har-extractor
1•soupspaces•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Resume Tailor – Fit your resume to any job

https://tailor.resume.academy/
1•vednig•17m ago•1 comments

A Trampoline

https://dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/07/29/a-trampoline/
3•matthewsharpe3•18m ago•0 comments

Basebrowserproject

https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116965925134524215
1•birdculture•18m ago•0 comments

XGBoost 3.3.0 Release

https://xgboost.ai/2026/07/21/xgboost-3-3-release.html
2•nickbecker•20m ago•0 comments

Anyone else think Claude Code and Codex are too slow? We hate it

https://bullet.davidhf.com
3•alsima•21m ago•0 comments

YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed

3•codexon•24m ago•2 comments

Neuroprosthesis restores hand movement&sensation in human w complete tetraplegia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04498-0
1•bookofjoe•24m ago•0 comments

Benchmarking LLMs on SAST Triage

https://www.fencer.dev/blog/llm-triage-sast-false-positives
8•timols•25m ago•0 comments

FrameCut – Split contact sheet negative film scans in Chrome

https://github.com/stabruriss/framecut/blob/main/README.md
1•chriswunan•25m ago•0 comments

Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging source-code access preceded rival AI gateway

https://runtimewire.com/article/runlayer-sues-rippling-alleging-source-code-access-preceded-rival...
2•ryanmerket•26m ago•0 comments

Collection of Vintage User-Interfaces

https://typewritten.org/Media/
1•karakoram•26m ago•0 comments

A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10754-7
1•sbulaev•26m ago•0 comments

China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinas-moonshot-ai-reportedly-...
2•rndsignals•28m ago•0 comments

Thorpe – semi-WYSIWYG Markdown editor

https://thorpeapp.com/
1•jasoncartwright•28m ago•0 comments