alt Hacker NewsMechanical Engineer here, stop using AI to deal with the most enjoyable part of design PLEASE
An automated drafting too where I can describe design intent and requirements would be a million times better, especially if it is CAD context aware.
I would say around 5-20% of mENG is not actually modelling, the endless pursuit of text to cad and other ai works is both not helpful and not enjoyable
(PS: The feature tree renaming does look very useful)
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grp • today at 8:32 AM
Hello, the feature tree renaming can be done with scripting macros in nearly every major CAD software (i.e. CATIA, Creo, Solidworks, Inventor).
AI in CAD are solutions searching for a problem... :/
There is definitely some truth to that. I am an EE and have played around with some of the prompt -> schematic tools. If I need 10mins to prompt it to draw the inverting op-amp amplifier circuit that I need. It is pointless. I can draw that in 10s. Also, ECAD software have design blocks and I have a design block libarary. So large parts of a schematic is really just two clicks for me already. If one wants to go into the PCB space with AI, probably the nicest application would be an AI librarian: Enforcing consistency in the parts library, finding datasheets, 3D models, simulation models etc. , listing alternative parts, checking if parts are close to their EOL. This should all be trivial for an AI. Drawing schematics is really a very small part of what an EE does day to day (at least for me).