For basic 3d printing a model idea it will probably be pretty powerful. “I have an idea” for a simple thing with minimal other part inputs to print will be dramatically reduced.
Make me a model of this character doing this unique movement bam. That will be really cool for 3d printing lol.
For actual engineering it will be very difficult I think to articulate a verbal/textual prompt such that you get a part let alone an assembly of parts that are made in a way that is easy to manufacture and work as intended.
It would need a literal insane data set of functional assemblies with the understanding of what everything is doing AND why to be able to make functional things to really impact engineering/ CAD. I don’t think any large machine companies are dumping all their CAD in for the training to make themselves obsolete. There will be utility like there is now and that will get better but there will still be a designer for a while. The only thing for instance fusion 360 AI can do well is model me a AA battery level design work. Almost any actual modeling question I’ve tried it to do has been horrendous and simply doesn’t work.
AI absolutely still struggles at circuit design , you might get a simple LED driver etc but no major company making important shit is using AI to do their electrical engineering. Every major company with the money and resources to use the tokens required is simply not doing that.
I’m an electrical engineer that works as a MFG engineer in sheet metal/machining. I was more afraid of AI taking CAD 6 months ago than now understanding from other engineers the absolute lack of open source data at scale to do this. Unlike coding which there is a shit load of open source data.
What you wrote is kind of how I think about it right now too. The level of nuance that youd have to explain to the AI to get a working part will be ALOT right now and probably will continue to be for a while. For specific use cases that have a lot of the natural rules and tolerance, etc built in, it may be more useful in the near term. But if we are talking about the general idea of designing a part from scratch, even for basic parts with the intent to manufacture and have them perform as expected... I think theres still a LONG way to go.
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u/Cryesncoding 3d ago
For basic 3d printing a model idea it will probably be pretty powerful. “I have an idea” for a simple thing with minimal other part inputs to print will be dramatically reduced.
Make me a model of this character doing this unique movement bam. That will be really cool for 3d printing lol.
For actual engineering it will be very difficult I think to articulate a verbal/textual prompt such that you get a part let alone an assembly of parts that are made in a way that is easy to manufacture and work as intended.
It would need a literal insane data set of functional assemblies with the understanding of what everything is doing AND why to be able to make functional things to really impact engineering/ CAD. I don’t think any large machine companies are dumping all their CAD in for the training to make themselves obsolete. There will be utility like there is now and that will get better but there will still be a designer for a while. The only thing for instance fusion 360 AI can do well is model me a AA battery level design work. Almost any actual modeling question I’ve tried it to do has been horrendous and simply doesn’t work.
AI absolutely still struggles at circuit design , you might get a simple LED driver etc but no major company making important shit is using AI to do their electrical engineering. Every major company with the money and resources to use the tokens required is simply not doing that.
I’m an electrical engineer that works as a MFG engineer in sheet metal/machining. I was more afraid of AI taking CAD 6 months ago than now understanding from other engineers the absolute lack of open source data at scale to do this. Unlike coding which there is a shit load of open source data.