Opus 5.5 rebuilds a SolidWorks vessel from a PDF drawing; GPT 6 vs Opus for CAD automation
leftballsack1 · reddit · 2026-10-11
An engineer reports that Claude Opus 5.5 successfully recreated a pressure vessel drawing from a PDF sheet entirely from scratch in SolidWorks. Before training seriously on company data, he's weighing Opus 5.5 vs GPT 6, prioritizing MCP support, geometry handling, and eventually building systems with SolidWorks DriveWorksExpress. He's asking the community for model-choice advice.
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