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The AI cracked a CAD file format and built a converter tested on about 3,500 files

Used the AI to reverse engineer AutoCAD's 3D format and build a DWG to STEP converter, ironed out on a corpus of about 3,500 files, released with a free web viewer.

How it works

  1. The AI reverse engineers the 3D format
  2. Builds a converter to the standard format
  3. The converter is ironed out on about 3,500 real files
  4. Released with a free web viewer

Why it’s worth knowing

The format was undocumented, so the agent had to work it out from the files themselves.

Where it’s from

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

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