Cotan2 creator says the AI mesh editor may not keep evolving as models build custom apps faster
rms80 · x · 2026-07-26
The creator of Cotan2 says the project may not be developed much further, despite believing it could be a strong mesh-based 3D design tool.
- Cotan2 started as a focused prototype for mesh-based biomedical CAD.
- Over the past two years, it evolved into a sandbox for speeding up traditional mesh and texture editing with AI.
- The author says Claude Code has made them dramatically more productive, to the point that they question whether broad, UI-heavy “general user” DCC tools still make sense.
- Their conclusion: software that exposes a wide capability set behind a traditional interface may struggle when models can assemble custom apps on demand.
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