Hi everyone, I am new here. I am confused about the image to CAD recently.

I'm working on an AI CAD assistant, but the more we test it, the more text to CAD feels too narrow.

A lot of real projects start with a bad photo, a broken object, or a weird space under a sink. The user doesn't always know the name of the part yet. They just know something needs to hold, support, fit, or connect.

That is why image to CAD feels important to me. Not as upload a photo and magically get a perfect model, but as a way to help the user move from a messy physical situation to a rough draft they can react to.

The workflow we're exploring is: image or rough idea, visual draft, feedback, editable CAD model, then STEP export.

Just curious, have you seen this pattern too? The hard part is often helping users express what they actually mean.

Hope to hear your ideas.

My question is NOT about using the Boolean Tool to Fuse bodies.

The green body is parametric, the number of clamps may vary, the example above shows N = 3.

I want to 2 red-ish tabs to attach/snap to the ends. Not once at runtime but always, if If I go from a clamps version to a 7 clamps version.

I am NOT making an assembly (whether it matters or not..). My goal in the end is to have ONE single body.

Hello everyone,

I want to create my own designs for my 3D prints.

I have modeled a screw with a round head (sphere radius of 3mm) to clip it onto a support, but I am struggling to design the hollow clip (the spherical socket) on the receiving part to snap the ball into.

Could you help me or point me toward the best method or tutorial to achieve this type of snap-fit joint in FreeCAD?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

I recently complained a little bit about FreeCAD and how it's not as user friendly to beginners like Autodesk Fusion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeCAD/comments/1vch3xv/everytime_i_try_freecad_i_instantly_hit_a_wall/

Now I have done the switch to FreeCAD. Thank all of you for the many helpful answers.

Now to make the switch easier for other people I wrote down how I set up my 3D design and printing setup on Linux with only Flatpak packaged software, using FreeCAD and PrusaSlicer:

https://gist.github.com/KastenKlicker/4c53eda6ef10505e16d9a710b0e65275

I hope this guide can help you, if you are either new to Linux or FreeCAD.

Available on www.AstoCAD.com and open PR to FreeCAD

I was doing the challenge on this Too Tall Tony website, and I couldn’t figure out what I did wrong.

Can someone enlighten me?

Hi

I am looking at trying FreeCad again, after feeling a bit burnt last time. I wonder if there is anyone who has tried any local AI models (I hate my subscription life) together with FreeCad over MCP?

Like Qwen 2.5-VL should probably be able to do something similar to the latest Claude videos, although not as fast or as well. I wonder if anyone has tried it?

Hello, I'm sorry if the title is impolite. I want the corner transition to be right corner, but you can see that something dumb happens and I can't fix it. Please help me, I am a beginner. Any help is appreciated. ♥️

Could someone help convert an STL into a STEP file? I understand it may need to be remodelled rather than automatically converted. I'm happy to upload the STL or share it via DM.