Comment by ariwilson

1 day ago

I'm a great user for this problem as I just got a 3D printer and I'm no good at modeling. I'm doing tutorials and printing a few things with TinkerCAD now, but my historic visualization sense is not great. I used SketchUp when I had a working Oculus Quest which was very cool but not sure how practical it is.

Unfortunately I tried to generate OpenSCAD a few times to make more complex things and it hasn't been a great experience. I just tried o3 with the prompt "create a cool case for a Pixel 6 Pro in openscad" and, even after a few attempts at fixing, still had a bunch of non-working parts with e.g. the USB-C port in the wrong place, missing or incorrect speaker holes, a design motif for the case not connected to the case, etc.

It reminds me of ChatGPT in late 2022 when it could generate code that worked for simple cases but anything mildly subtle it would randomly mess up. Maybe someone needs to finetune one of the more advanced models on some data / screenshots from Thingiverse or MakerWorld?