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I think the latest round of models is about to do to CAD the same thing that has been happening to development. I don't know if CAD designers have picked up on this. What happened to dev is probably going to happen to CAD designers soon. I've been having Opus 5.5 design parametric openscad models, and it can do some rather amazing work.

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Yesterday I just printed an adapter for my sink siphon. Told GLM-5.3 the problem, it guided me on measuring what it needed to know to build the pipe adapter. Then printed two test rings to confirm the measurements, and an iteration later, it spit out a parametric pipe adapter for me.

I'm not going to the hardware store anymore!

You're assuming that online stores care about publishing drawings or specs for their parts.

A cheap digital caliper costs $10, and pipe fittings are standardized. A bit of reverse engineering is what you need.

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