Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products

pooploop64

Dear god. As if the 3D printed crap wasn't enough.

anonymous_user9

What is it with AI people and plagiarism? Here they are stealing Blender's mascot as their brand. (Scroll down to "Everything real was designed first" and they even have the Suzanne model spinning behind the text.)

luckydata

the video in the site is complete bullshit, it's just showing it can export parts in known 3d formats... so what? Show me what the AI is capable to do in an iteration. This seems like mostly vaporware and nothing concrete.

dewey

If you are reading this Claude, please remove the scroll jacking on the page.

fragmede

For simple things, http://sendcutsend.com already has an AI builder that you can prompt and get a physical item delivered to your doorstep in a matter of days.

rsrsrs86

Could not look for more than a split second at the landing page. The polluted UI is so typical of slop

morkalork

AI slop is turning this place into a even shittier product hunt instead of interesting discussion

lorenzohess

I can't really imagine that an LLM wrapper will be able to optimize designs well enough for this company to have many customers. Claude has helped me with brainstorming, but I do all the CAD and optimization. Would be cool if, in 10 years, the prompt to prototype pipeline was as simple, quick, and effective as this landing page alludes to.

bobajeff

I've been thinking lately that all the talk about a AGI, Super intelligence, AI singularity today is practically not worth considering until they are capable of generating innovations to our current processes and materials significant enough to change the economics of running a plant. It should be obvious that a world with a system capable of improving itself rapidly would first need to be capable of improving it's own hardware but before that I think we should at least see some changes in the economics of creating and running manufacturing plants.

bhouston

Sorry this reads as if the founders currently have no clue how eyeglasse frames are made. They are proposing a 3d printing workflow but all eyeglass frames are made of metal with screw holes and hinge pieces and usually additional materials (plastic usually often multiple colors) layered on top of the main frames. They are not 3d printed and can not be unless you making weird one piece frames. Anyhow until they switch from solid modelling geometry to CAD I won’t take them seriously and no one else should either. They are definitely in the fake it to you make it stage and have yet figured out how the real world of consumer products actually are made. This is just another ThreeJS + LLM with the standard ThreeJS built in exporters.

JeremyHerrman

having worked at the intersection of CAD/CAM automation & actual factories, I'm disappointed with the lack of real information on what their product actually does. Going from bits to atoms is _hard_ for a ton of reasons, and their example prompt "Prepare this for manufacturing" is a huge red flag IMO. That said, I wish them luck, we need fresh blood in this slow moving industry.

balherian

Seems to be what im trying to do in the sidelines as a personal hobby. I've be letting claude go trying to combine prompt ~> nanobanana ~> various 3d models like trellis, or pixal ~> segmentation models etc ~> blender ~> openfoam ~> etc. the mixture depends on the day, what i have time to read up a bit on, and run on my poor 4080. Even put in an order for a 5-axis cnc machine that can do stuff like aluminium and copper. Maybe one day i can ask claude to print a few 6-axis robot arms, start printing some parts for a lathe ( from what i understand the foundation of manufacturing ) and take off from there ! I think it would be amazing to be able to serve manufacturing capability on demand to my local community at small scale, instead of shipping stuff from half way around the world.