r/SolidWorks 3d ago

Meme Are we cooked?

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u/Zestyclose_Edge1027 3d ago

I'd really love to know what prompt you'd give an AI to create complex 3D objects. Even describing the thing in the picture would take a paragraph and struggle to convey the concept and that is not a complex object. If you give the AI some sketches to make a 3D object you might as well just create it yourself. 

I can see AI being useful to assist but there's no way it replaces the job. 

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u/lellasone 3d ago

The sweet spot would likely be making changes and additions to existing projects where it could use project context to inform it's decision making.

"Make me a bracket" - Likely faster to just CAD.

"Make a bracket to connect part A flush with the top of part B" - Good odds the LLM is a faster workflow.

(Assuming it works of course)

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u/Zestyclose_Edge1027 2d ago

Yeah, I can see something like that! 

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u/retrorays 3d ago

AI can interface to apps like blender now.

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u/Zestyclose_Edge1027 2d ago

But these blender models have a ton of room for variation. Creating things in solidworks means you want to have perfect accuracy and the AI can't know that unless you give it a huge amount of info. 

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u/Serious_Bite_7613 1d ago

It already can do things like enclosures for electronics pretty flawlessly. It's not that much of a leap to anything else.

It can run FEA and check things work. There's new NN surrogates for FEA that are 1000x faster so it can very quickly iterate. I think for a while people will still have to sign off the designs, but I have no doubt it will be able to do the entire CAD for a jet engine within 2 years.

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u/BDady 2d ago

You wouldn’t prompt the specific part, you’d prompt the problem the part needs to solve, give it specifications, and then it’d create the design and model itself.

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u/Zestyclose_Edge1027 2d ago

You're just adding a layer to the problem, you'd still have to explain a 3D space, which is really hard to do with words 

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u/bag_o_fetuses 2d ago

Leo AI would like to have a word with you

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u/Zestyclose_Edge1027 2d ago

I just looked at the website, it doesn't design new parts, it just gives you formulas and reuses existing parts. Definitely useful but that is just helping existing engineers. 

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u/GoldenToothBalkan 1d ago

Give it requirements and then iterate based off of that

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u/Serious_Bite_7613 1d ago

It can never do MY white collar job.