The AI designed my bookshelves and cabinets. Cutting lists in minutes, not days.

He had been designing wooden bookshelves and cutlery cabinets in FreeCAD and finding it hard work. He used AI to make the designs and send the results to FreeCAD, and got fully parametric designs and cutting lists in minutes rather than days.

How it works

Asks the AI to make the furniture designs
The AI produces fully parametric designs
The results go into FreeCAD with cutting lists

Why it’s worth knowing

The slow part of woodworking, the drawings and cutting lists, went from days to minutes.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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