So I've been working on the request from a client that does CNC machining to make a tool that would make them a STEP model from the 2D CAD technical drawings so that they can import the model into CNC machining software for tool planning and actually getting the G code. they said it is actually easier for them to manually model a part, than wait for their client to send them the model. So they said tha it is a major bottleneck for them and if we could automate this task.
I am using Fusion360 Python API, Claude Code Opus 4.7 and Claude Desktop also Opus 4.7 as a manager so that Code does not go off rails 😄 I kid you not.
Now at least the shape family is right. Some parts (distance rings) come out perfect. These kind of parts are already a bit hard for the Claude's vision model. So I'll have to fine tune a couple of models.
To make my life easier I focused on rotational parts first.
Once the STEP models are finetuned, I'll move to parametric reconstruction in Fusion.
Parametric Fusion360 Python API is really good and I got it to produce nice result, but I realised the vision models are really good at tagging cats and dogs, but for serious industrial work the models, even the frontier ones are still on a kindergarten level.
But the most important part is making progress 😄
