To those who make things,
You didn't take up engineering to name a face. You took it up because you like it when a thing fits — when the tolerance stacks, when the bracket lands on the bolt circle, when the part comes off the machine right.
Somewhere between the idea and the drawing, the work turned into operation. Pick the plane. Set the constraint. Rename the reference. Rebuild, and watch it fail three features deep because a chamfer moved.
So describe the part instead — the way you'd say it to someone across the bench. A plate, 100 × 50 × 10, two ⌀15 holes on a 50 pitch. What comes back is a model with its features intact: sketches you can open, dimensions you can drive, a history you can edit.
Not a mesh. Not a picture of a part. A solid that rebuilds to the same cubic millimetre, every time.
The geometry is still yours. The bookkeeping isn't your job anymore. This is for you.
- Part
- bracket-plate
- Material
- AL 6061-T6
- Units
- mm
- Rebuild
- deterministic
- Rev
- A
From a sentence to an editable model.
Three movements, in order. Every model is a feature history you can open, change, and rebuild — the same way you'd work in CAD.
Brief it in words
Type the part and its dimensions the way you'd hand it to a colleague. No plane picking, no constraint hunting.
It plans the features
OrionFlow lays out sketches, pads, pockets and patterns — a parametric tree, not a static mesh.
Change a number, rebuild
Tweak any parameter and regenerate. Take the solid out as STEP, STL, or GLB.
Engineering-grade, not a toy renderer.
The properties that decide whether a generated model is worth anything on a Monday morning.
- Feature history
- Sketches, pads, pockets and patterns you can reopen and re-dimension. Geometry stays driven by parameters, not baked into triangles.
- Sketch constraints
- Profiles carry their dimensions and relations, so an edit moves what it should and holds the rest.
- Deterministic rebuild
- A model rebuilds to the same solid every time — verified against volume and topology, not eyeballed.
- Stable references
- Faces and edges are pinned by geometric signature, so an edit survives instead of breaking on a renamed face.
- Exports
- STEP · STL · GLB. Into your CAD, your slicer, or the browser. Standard formats, no lock-in.
- No black box
- Every model compiles to industry-standard STEP you can open anywhere. Nothing is trapped in a proprietary format.
How we're building it.
Notes from the work — the representation, the training signal, and the parts that are genuinely hard.
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A kernel-independent IR for editable CAD↗
Why every OrionFlow model is a FeatureGraph first — one representation that compiles to FreeCAD and build123d alike.
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Teaching a model to think like a CAD engine↗
Multimodal extraction: feature graphs, rolling geometry, sketch constraints, and topology-stable anchors as training signal.
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Deterministic round-trip, verified↗
How we prove a generated model rebuilds to the exact same solid — down to the cubic millimetre.
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Beating the Topological Naming Problem↗
Replacing fragile face IDs with geometric coordinate signatures, so an edit doesn't break on a renamed face.
Put a part into words.
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