An agent drove his CAD tool from a screenshot and made a printable self-watering cat bin

Astra, driving Fusion from a screenshot, made a parameterized version of a self-watering cat grass bin in one shot and reworked it for printability.

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How it works

The agent, driving the CAD tool from a screenshot, makes a parameterized version of the bin in one shot
Reworks it for printability

Why it’s worth knowing

From a screenshot to a sized, printable object is the CAD dream, working.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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