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text-to-cad: agent skills for CAD, CAE and CAM
Open-source library of agent skills that let coding agents generate, inspect, slice, and hand off CAD models for fabrication.
Why it matters
16.6k stars and surging today; skills cover the full loop from plain-language CAD to validated STEP/STL, G-code slicing, DfAM checks, and Bambu Lab print jobs.
What you could build with it
A hardware startup could wire the CAD skill into its design agent so engineers describe a bracket or enclosure in plain language and get an inspected, validated STEP file ready for quoting, cutting prototype turnaround from days to hours.
Does it hold up?
Strong adoption evidence: 16.6k stars with commits landing today, a docs site and CAD-viewer demo, and third-party repos citing it as skill provenance for CAD/SDF workflows. Runs locally and fully open source; setup needs Python 3.11, CAD deps, and a browser for rendering.
Built with text-to-cad
- codex-plugins bundles text-to-cad as a Codex plugingithub · Third-party Codex plugin collection shipping text-to-cad's CAD/URDF skills as a bundled, graded plugin.
- 3d-print-designs builds on the SDF skillgithub · A 3D-print design repo whose agent skills cite earthtojake/text-to-cad as provenance for SDFormat workflows.
- workspace adopts the CAD skill with provenancegithub · A developer workspace whose CAD agent skill files cite earthtojake/text-to-cad as the maintained upstream.
- tomevault-io/codex-pluginsgithub · 2 ★ · Wraps text-to-cad's CAD/URDF skills into installable Codex plugins, graded against the public Tome Standard.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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