Developer Admits He Was Wrong: Astra Agent Does CAD in Onshape via Chrome, Design-to-Print Workflow
carlosdponx · x · 2026-09-11
Developer himanshustwts admits he was wrong about LLMs not being the answer for CAD automation. Using the agent product Astra to drive Onshape through Chrome, he knocked out long-postponed CAD tasks in a few iterations.
- Not zero-shot, but a few iterations get the desired result — and this runs in a regular browser, not a dedicated text2CAD tool
- He's already automated design-to-modeling-to-printing; printed parts' forgiving tolerances suit the workflow
- Caveat: high-precision work stays manual for now — not because Astra can't do it, but describing the requirement would take longer than doing it
- His call: another model iteration or two, and this is "the" AI CAD tool
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