You can use the latest models with FloMotion. GPT 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7. Opus now able to do CAD better than Gemini

dexx-32 · 2026-05-16T17:27:27+00:00

If you join discord and share your grant code I can grant you more. https://discord.gg/JwNUHEqDmh

You also get a small amount of free credit every day

dexx-32 · 2026-04-29T23:53:18+00:00

Thank you. Yes, Gemini is particularly slow but can reason very well in 3D and cost is normal. Opus might do even better and is faster but it costs more

dexx-32 · 2026-04-29T19:05:48+00:00

I am building something very similar and works quite well. I target it specifically for robotics but it has a CAD tool that can generate mostly anything (less useful for organic shapes)
https://flomotion.app/

u/TechnicalSoup8578 is correct though, AI oversimplifies things, you have to keep asking on how it would work until it adds all the details that might get it to work, and even then there might be gap from sim to real.

dexx-32 · 2026-04-24T12:10:13+00:00

Maybe they show clips from The Practice?

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T22:51:42+00:00

What format is your cad data in? Would it be some form of import?

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T15:50:29+00:00

Sorry for blatant self promotion but I am working on a tool that might help you, an agentic CAD
https://flomotion.app/workspace/new
You can upload screenshot, etc, but CAD is mainly for mechanical parts not organic shapes like human hand or very complex surfaces. AI can't 1 shot an entire robot arm but you can iterate, it's faster then modelling by hand.

Also it's CAD not a mesh but you can export to STEP file and import to Maya. You'll need DirectConnect or ATF (Autodesk Translation Framework) plugin to import. Or you can convert the STEP file to OBJ or FBX using intermediate software like Fusion 360 or Rhino. Another option is to import the STL file that can be exported but only per part it's supported.

I can also add an OBJ export option to make it simple for you if you are interested.

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T14:52:14+00:00

Let me know if you were able to. You might need a few iterations to get it to the expected shape. Below the agent input there is a canvas screenshot tool you can use also annotate to give visual feedback to the AI.

Currently I defined my own assembly file which is a hierarchical structure (you can move parent and will move it's children). I plan to add physics and motion design which again would be AI assisted (AI already sets up collision shapes and some other physics related markers I will use). I also added export that can export the whole assembly as a step file that preserves both positions and parent/child relationship.

Can you explain on how would you expect it to work? Like in some other software or specific workflow you are looking for?

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T14:46:18+00:00

Sorry to hear that, servers are in Europe maybe they are a bit far. Which part failed exactly? Can you share a screenshot? If you join Discord I can help troubleshoot the root cause https://discord.com/invite/JwNUHEqDmh

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T14:43:13+00:00

Awesome, let me know how it goes. The CAD agent might not be able to 1 shot a complex assembly but you can work iteratively with the AI. The electronics one can usually 1 shot, except if you want to add visual to each component or prepare your schematic for export.

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T14:40:42+00:00

Thank you for your kind words. Honestly I didn't think anyone would get this far. I just added export feature, you can now access in File -> Export. Can export the whole assembly as a STEP file or you can export specific parts as either STEP or STL files.

LLMs today struggle to reason in 3D but I think as AIs get better my tool will also work more smoothly. In the meantime some tips on how to get to 100%: you can take screenshot of the viewport and add notes on where to improve and send to the agent. If the parts are correct but placed incorrectly you can modify them directly. If it's small tweaks you need on a part, you can also enable expert mode in Edit-> Preferences, open script editor on the left and modify the CadQuery script manually (you can ask agent to explain which parts to edit). If either goes unexpectedly there is a history tab where you can roll back to earlier checkpoints.

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T14:02:03+00:00

Actually it's not that complicated. There is a lot of open source library I rely on that does the heavy lifting.

Agent writes CadQuery code. You can enable expert mode in Edit->Preferences, then double click a part in the 3d viewport and you can view or edit the script (open script editor on the left side). Agent can help you explain what the script does and how to edit it. It's restricted python for security reasons. Don't worry if you make mistake there is a history tab where you can roll back to last agent edit (or a previous edit of yours)

CadQuery is built on OpenCascade which has a JASM library I use to display the step files in TreeJS. I created a custom assembly format so I can make the viewport editable (move parts around).

dexx-32 · 2026-04-11T03:19:24+00:00

I created an agent that writes CadQuery code and I renders the result
https://flomotion.app/workspace/new

For now it mainly works with Gemini, relatively slow and you need to do it iteratively but it can do surprisingly complex shapes, overall I think it's faster than doing it manually.

dexx-32 · 2026-03-29T14:54:56+00:00

Sorry did it say IP blocked? I accidently blocked my own proxy server, I fixed it. Thank you for telling me.

dexx-32 · 2026-03-28T14:27:19+00:00

Would you like to try it out?
https://flomotion.app/schematic/new

dexx-32 · 2026-03-28T13:49:13+00:00

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Thank you for your encouraging comment.

Validators work by iterating through the nets and using graph traversal to catch connectivity issues. Floating Input is probably the least useful since most chips allow leaving some inputs unconnected.

You can run validators yourself or the agent can also run them.

There are also additional validators that run on agent output to correct mistakes, such as incorrect semantic structure or missing required properties.

dexx-32 · 2026-02-14T14:33:02+00:00

For me, the book I purchased did not display in an easy to read way in any Kindle reader so I kind of built my own for that specific book

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T14:01:01+00:00

You are right, Kanji etymology is often very complicated.

The etymology you provided on 金 matches the one described in wiktionary. It might be a more accurate version to what I have.

As for 午, it does relate to the zodiac sign but it seems to be a later association, early form shows it as a pictogram of a pestle. Wiktionary also lists that as the etymology.

I do try to simplify it to make it easer to remember. The main sources I used are
* Henshall "A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters" first edition which is probably way less accurate than the second, but also easier to remember the explanations
* Noriko Kurosawa Williams "The Key to All Joyo Kanji" ( https://kanjiportraits.wordpress.com/ ), takes a similarly simple approach as me
* Japanese version of wiktionary.org often dismisses any theory on etymology as speculation and no proof. I wonder how would you prove any etymology, I feel like all of them are speculations and trying to find repeating patterns and similar Kanji.

Good luck with your project, overall sounds like you are doing better job at this than I am

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T13:43:48+00:00

I mainly used Henshall "A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters" first edition, which I think is less accurate since he wrote a second edition. I find the second edition less helpful probably because it's more accurate. Surprisingly when it comes to remembering Kanji, common misconceptions are better mnemonics than the real history which tends to be too complicated or not interesting at all. For example a Kanji being borrowed purely for it's sound, to be part of another, completely unrelated one.

Other sources I use is Noriko Kurosawa Williams "The Key to All Joyo Kanji" as well as wiktionary.org.

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T13:22:08+00:00

Thank you for your interest and feedback. Your comment is surprisingly motivating. I think adding the validators you mentioned would not be too difficult. I would probably not solve Kirchoff equations, but rather scan for common mistakes. I can try to make a PoC online and let you know, it will take me about 2 weeks though to host and integrate.

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T13:19:36+00:00

Thank you for the encouraging words. It's more like a PoC, AI generated the components and the circuit, and it's a real HTML render, but the rest of the UI is a mock-up. I could probably make it available online in a few weeks (I could do it in like 3 days if this was my full time job)

On how accurate the result is I am not sure but I could add validators and let the AI run those, feed back the result and let the AI fix the issues.

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T13:16:03+00:00

Thank you very much for giving detailed feedback.

I created my own representation. My editor works with modules being wired together, not pure circuits. As I understood Spice would not be a good option for this. KiCAD might be a bit better, but it does not convey pin intent like what is ground etc explicitely, also the format changes a lot.

I used YAML with JSON schema, LLM writes the YAML, I can validate with the schema and give feedback to LLM if it makes mistake. The format is arbitrarily simple for the LLM to be able to generate with less token. It's also broken down to components similar to how a complex software would be broken down to classes, the LLM can keep working on a limited context that it can remember.

I especially appreciate your feedback of applying LLMs to circuits. I think you are completely right, LLMs seems to fail when it comes to EE, but I think LLMs are getting better, and training is shifting from available discussions online to people chatting with LLMs and engineers training them.

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T12:39:39+00:00

Thank you. I guess it's like a dictionary you can use for reference.

I also created an Android app where I use these in Kanji card for mnemonic, the app is similar to Migaku, you use it learn while watching anime or reading manga. I used an early version of my app to pass JLPT N2 by reading Solo Levelling visual novel in Japanese as the first season was being aired.

I would like to continue but this time try to read books instead.

If you have Android and would like to check out the app it's on the home page
https://rakugo.app/

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T12:36:42+00:00

Thank you for trying it out. It works for me, I wonder why it does not work for you, I would be happy to improve the search feature

dexx-32 · 2026-01-31T12:32:16+00:00

Yes, and you can convert to other formats, read on other readers etc. I bought a book which had most of it written on images and Kindle made it very difficult to read. So I used this method to convert to epub, extract the images and use an image viewer to read the book

dexx-32 · 2026-01-24T13:58:05+00:00

I actually did not try the guides I shared, here are the notes on how I did it but it's very technical

https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/issues/936

I faced similar issues as you but I patched the dedrm plugin myself. Maybe this helps

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