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Sep 18, 2026
Chris GammellHOST
Yeah.
Chris GammellHOST
FreeCAD was also on there.
Dave JonesHOST
Yeah.
Chris GammellHOST
FreeCAD is not, uh, you know, racing up the charts of, like, uh-
Dave JonesHOST
Oh, no
Chris GammellHOST
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Dave JonesHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Chris GammellHOST
So, like, I, I don't know if you've seen, like, any of, like, the, the stuff with, like, Blender has an MCP.
Elliot WilliamsHOST
And something that, again, some of the more experienced folks in the comments were like, oh yeah, that's all we ever do.
Elliot WilliamsHOST
And like, if you fire up FreeCAD, which is what I'm using today, one of the big successful workspaces there is the architecture one.
Elliot WilliamsHOST
I, again, I never use this.
Elliot WilliamsHOST
I'm not 3D printing houses, but it's there for people to make architectural plans and to say, what's this going to look like if it works like this? And if I open the door, does it hit the couch? you know and and stuff like that so i do think there's this whole like i guess for me other world of cad where it's just like here i'm doing this to make blueprints or to make plans or to make something like that and not necessarily to make something that's a first step in a direct fabrication chain which is what i'm always doing with it Like, have you ever made art with OpenSCAD?
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OpenAI says Astra can lay out a printed circuit board in KiCad, build a 3D city scene in Unity, create an animated automobile transmission in FreeCAD and Blender, and fill out a tax return draft from a W-2.
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In scientific work, the model helped improve a mathematical result on gaps between prime numbers and set new marks on several biology, chemistry, medical, and physics evaluations.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Jensen Huang also calls it AGI, but he calls everything AGI.
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Axios.
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OpenAI says Astra can lay out a printed circuit board in KiCad, build a 3D city scene in Unity, create an animated automobile transmission in FreeCAD and Blender, and fill out a tax return draft from AW2.
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Jensen Huang also calls it AGI, but he calls everything AGI.
AdrianHOST
But when you take this secure local AI capability and combine it with the open source CAD movement, you get a deeply, deeply fascinating workflow.
ClaraHOST
This is where FreeCAD and CAD Query enter the picture.
ClaraHOST
According to the release notes in our sources, FreeCAD just hit version 1.1.
ClaraHOST
This is a huge milestone for the open source engineering community.
AdrianHOST
It's a game changer.
ClaraHOST
Because FreeCAD is entirely free, there is no vendor lock-in, all your files belong to you on your hard drive, and this new version includes a built-in assembly workbench using the on-sale solver.
ClaraHOST
But sitting right next to FreeCAD is a tool that seems, well, tailor-made for AI, CADQuery.
AdrianHOST
CADQuery is the missing link here.
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So for example, here it's using Unity to build a city scene completely from scratch.
speaker_0HOST
Here's another example where we can get it to create a 3D model of a 5-speed car transmission in FreeCAD and then use Blender to animate the gears in motion.
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And here's an example where you can easily get it to fill out tax forms or any other forms directly on your browser.
speaker_0HOST
Here are some ridiculous benchmarks for your reference.
Will SmithHOST
But Inkscape doesn't open EPS.
Will SmithHOST
So I'm going to have to figure out like I don't know what the best or is like FreeCAD better for this kind of thing.
Will SmithHOST
EPS are encapsulated PostScript
Brad ShoemakerHOST
files.