Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds

OsamaAtwi 48 points 42 comments July 06, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (13 comments)

lewi

Typed out an entire prompt on the homepage, hit enter, was redirected to sign-up & completed it. My few hundred word prompt wasn't saved/persisted. :'(

55555

It actually works pretty well.

dvh

Ux on mobile is very bad. First you lure me with a prompt, but when I type it it's lost and I'm redirected to login page. Ok, I signed up, logged in. On mobile the progress panel is 1cm wide, I didn't notice and I set the same prompt now I have 2 generating and no way to cancel. You (correctly) started title of this post with the word "generate" that is your core feature, everything else I see on mobile is unrelated bullshit, including the carousel, including the "choose your role" dialog. On mobile there should be prompt (50% of screen real estate), a generate button, output/progress (50% of screen real estate) and hamburger button that hides everything else. The generation haven't finished yet, I will report when it finishes to see if core feature is even usable.

Mashimo

Blog, youtube channel and landing page is kinda sparse when it comes to examples. And I'm not going to sign up just to test it. I agree with the other ones, have 20 cached examples or at least some videos that show the process from start to finish.

OsamaAtwi

Thank you for the feedback! we will consider them both for the website and the product. We have several examples in the product, we will push them to be present on the webpage

nl

I've been doing a lot of 3D design in Codex GPT 5.5 (I found Opus 4.7 wasn't as good - haven't experimented much with 4.8 or Fable). OpenSCAD is a parametric CAD programming language, and the models know it well. The biggest challenge is communicating words like "inside" and "above" to the model - inevitably it's idea of which direction is which is often different. I can't say I've done anything very hard, but for things like ESP32 cases, or parametric rod connectors it is great. You can do things like "add snap connectors" and it'll do a great job.

wojciem

Tried two very open ended prompts: "Home robot" and "Jet engine". First one returned only two plates connected with 4 rods, second model did not produce any 3d model at all. Curious whether some hierarchical modeling could be applied here.

globalnode

asks you to enter a description, and when entered, hits you with a sign in dickover.

felooboolooomba

Asked for a specific tool and got a tool holder? I hope this project succeeds but it's not ready for prime time HN.

shevy-java

It wants me to log in, so I am their product. No thanks.

dhumph

Examples guys. You are telling me a lot and not showing me. Get rid of the home page animation that does nothing and replace it with examples that show real world use cases, step by step.

xpct

Would be curious to hear from folks who do modelling: My first reaction from seeing the examples on the page, is that they are somewhat simple, almost standardized, or come from templates. They also don't look very time-consuming to model yourself. The product advertises itself on the parameterization aspect, but my hunch is that practitioners have their personal library of models which can be rescaled without much work. Is that somewhat accurate?

oschrenk

I had a lot of fun with https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova A library/toolkit for the Swift programming language to built parametric 3d objects. Give Claude access to the docs and examples and you can do amazing things.

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