He designs his own furniture with AI and gets cutting blueprints in a couple of hours

A hobbyist designs his own furniture in OpenSCAD with AI, reusing code from earlier pieces. A new design takes a couple of hours including the PDF blueprints, drawn like shop instructions, that he prints so the person cutting his wood panels cannot go wrong.

How it works

He describes the piece he wants
The AI writes and adjusts the OpenSCAD design, reusing code from past pieces
It generates PDF blueprints of how each panel must be cut
He prints them for the cutter and builds the furniture

Why it’s worth knowing

The design work that made code based modelling exhausting now takes a couple of hours, blueprints included.

Where it’s from

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

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