# CAD Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Computer-Aided Design (CAD): The digital foundation that enables engineers and architects to precisely create, modify, and optimize 2D technical drawings and complex 3D models.

CAD is the essential software system used across architecture, engineering, and manufacturing to replace manual drafting with a digital-first process. It allows professionals to create precise 2D and 3D models, facilitating design analysis (e.g., stress simulation) before physical production even begins. This technology significantly increases productivity, reduces design errors, and streamlines the workflow: A designer can iterate on a complex assembly, generate a Bill of Materials (BOM), and produce manufacturing instructions (like CNC code) all from a single digital file. Industry adoption of tools like AutoCAD and SolidWorks has made CAD a non-negotiable standard for modern product development.

- Official technology site: https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/cad-software
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Vertical agents for end-to-end drone design](https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ui_a_S-v_t4)

I'm working on Isembard - a tool aiming to orchestrate and automate CAD and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tasks by combining these tasks with LLMs and reasoning models. I'll be presenting progress so far (early days) - showing what decisions the LLM calls are currently controlling, and inviting ideas on how higher-level planning of designs could be controlled via reasoning models working upon a knowledge base, and armed with a library of modules for performing CAD/CFD tasks

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - San Francisco - February 2025 Demos + Science Fair — 2025-02-28 — San Francisco
- Public talk page: https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ui_a_S-v_t4

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- [FreeCAD](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/freecad) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/freecad.md)) — 1 public demo
- [LLMs](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/llms) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/llms.md)) — 83 public demos
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