GOPR-CAD builds CAD models through progressive operation graphs
On a 300-part MHCAD benchmark, the training-free pipeline reaches 82.7% Structural Yield.
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FunCAD-Harness checks whether LLM CAD designs actually function
FunCADBench spans 46 mechanism families; the harness turns abstract requirements into candidate-specific physical tests.
Study finds GPT-6 Astra useful but unreliable for engineering CAD
Tests cover model understanding, generation, editing, and evaluation, with recurring failures in freeform geometry, parameters, and mating.
Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)
SolidCraft is an open-source parametric CAD program in Rust with MCP support.
CADFather: Autonomous CAD Reconstruction through Coordinated Tool Use
CADFather coordinates tools and a vision-language agent to reconstruct editable CAD programs from 3D meshes.
LMBuild: Evaluating LLM Agents for Generating Buildable and Functional Structures
LMBuild benchmarks LLM agents on generating structures that are buildable, functional, and physically realizable.
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering raised $50 million at a $750 million valuation for AI hardware-design agents.
StepCAD: Mesh-to-CAD Code Generation via LLM Policy and Geometry-Guided Search
StepCAD turns 3D meshes into executable CAD programs with an LLM policy and geometry-guided search, beating prior baselines.
EngiWorld: What Can Frontier Agents Deliver in Professional Engineering Environments?
EngiWorld benchmarks frontier agents on 1,301 professional engineering tasks; the best EngiScore is only 44.3.
NeuSOGA3D: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Explainable 3D Geometric Reconstruction
NeuSOGA3D combines learned perception with symbolic spline reasoning to produce explainable, CAD-compatible 3D reconstructions from point clouds across all forty ModelNet40 categories.
Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
Formas launches Cartesian, an AI 3D modeling tool for architecture and product design with natural-language editing and CAD exports.
CADWorld: Computer-Use Benchmark for Long-Horizon Computer-Aided Design
CADWorld benchmark evaluates computer-use agents on 200 long-horizon FreeCAD tasks; best agent reaches 17.5% success versus 87% expert reference.
Kaininja: Extending Native 3D Generators to the Part Level
KaiNinja extends TRELLIS.2 native 3D generation to part-level assets via a dual-volume O-Voxel representation, cutting whole-object Chamfer distance by 40%.
ZDI-26-587: Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt VS File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI advisory ZDI-26-587 details a heap-based buffer overflow RCE (CVE-2026-19781, CVSS 7.8) in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt VS file parsing, requiring user interaction.