Generate buildable Lego CAD models from a text prompt
Over several months a Hacker News poster taught GPT and Claude agents to write LDraw, the text format for Lego CAD where each line places one part. The open-source toolset lets an agent plan a model, render it from several angles, inspect the renders, run collision checks using real connector data, and fix its own mistakes; it ships as a Docker web app with a sample gallery. Common categories like houses come out well, with rotation sign-flips the usual error the validation loop catches. A Technic mechanism costs roughly $5 in tokens. There's no physics or stability check yet.
Tools used
- GPT
- Claude
- LDraw
Sources (3)
- Originalhttps://github.com/anteloc/ldraw-nova (opens in a new tab) ↗
anteloc · GitHub
- Originalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937916 (opens in a new tab) ↗
antelocnova · Hacker News
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