Dev uses OpenAI's Astra to turn old blueprints into 3D models with "impeccable engineering taste"
nptacek · x · 2026-10-17
Developer nptacek shared his experience using OpenAI's Astra to turn old engineering blueprints into 3D models, calling its "engineering taste impeccable." He notes industry-standard civil engineering output is typically 50 pages of barely human-readable model files plus tables only a hydrologist can parse, and quips that his AutoCAD-era career might have gone differently with this tech around.
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