Hacker News: zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zachdiveHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:36:05 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>CADAM is pretty good at building Gridfinity

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:24:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578896zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578896https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578896<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>nice!

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:08:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578781zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578781<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>yep

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:02:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578224zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578224https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578224<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>Sweet!

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:15:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577708zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577708https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577708<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>Most of our users on CADAM are makers/tinkerers. Their #1 usecase is to generate a printable stl file for which openSCAD is ideal (LLMs are very good at generating it)

For professional workflows you can use https://adam.new/ which can work natively in your CAD software and generate .STEP via build123d

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:15:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577703zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577703<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>You can use https://adam.new/ if you want to connect to your CAD applications or generate real breps

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:58:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577502zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577502https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577502<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>tackling all that in: https://adam.new/

don't you worry ;)

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:54:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577442zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577442<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>This is so the .scad file stays the canonical state. With -D, the rendered geometry diverges from what the file says.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:29:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577181zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577181https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577181<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>I agree openSCAD isn't anywhere near powerful enough for professional workflows. Hence why I framed this as AI TinkerCAD.

However, you can drive any professional CAD software though code. As we drive Autodesk Fusion via python through agents.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:00:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576830zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576830https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576830<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>The same principles of an agent writing cad as code and then visualing inspecting the output in a loop runs through all our products. Whilst CADAM uses OpenSCAD, Fusion uses Python, Onshape use FeatureScript etc..

The majority of our enterprise traction is on our flagship product: https://adam.new/

Here you can connect to your engineering software and use AI to generate:

- CAD - Renderings - Slides for design review - BOM

and much more!

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:41:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576573zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576573https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576573<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>Honestly I would've liked to MIT. It's mainly that the openscad wasm we use is GPL

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:09:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576133zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576133<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>Yes it can! You can even use mesh mode which is very strong for this!

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:08:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576128zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576128https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576128<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>I strongly believe that by scaling up LLMs we will get there. I write about this here in more detail: https://adam.new/blog/bitter-lesson-ai-cad

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:01:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576019zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576019<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>yes i agree, this would probably fix it

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:42:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575789zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575789https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575789<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>curious how this compares to on baseline: https://adam.new/

let me know!

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575783zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575783https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575783<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>Yes I intentionally called this AI TinkerCAD

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:37:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575691zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575691https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575691<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>I largely agree with you. It's case by case and the ideal ux imho is to have both.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:03:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575163zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575163https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575163<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>generally professionals our flagship app at https://adam.new/

hobbyists and makers use CADAM

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:02:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575140zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575140<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>Fable is considerably better from my experience: https://x.com/LLMJunky/status/2065229625702109340?s=20

Fingers crossed it comes back!

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:45:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574860zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574860<![CDATA[New comment by zachdive in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]>you can upload an image or a sketch! we actually have drawing suppor in our extensions, but we've found our users use it far less than we expected!

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:39:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574760zachdivehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574760https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574760