text-to-cad is an open-source plugin and skill set that gives AI coding agents local CAD workflows.
Agents can generate 3D models as STEP, GLB, STL or 3MF, run design-for-manufacturing checks, produce engineering drawings and connect to 3D-printing, sheet-metal and CNC fabrication services.
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3D model generation to STEP, GLB, STL and 3MF
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Design-for-manufacturing checks and engineering drawings
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Bundled `cadgen mcp` server and CAD Viewer that shows models in chat or the browser
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Plugins for Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Codex, plus skills for Cursor, Gemini, Grok and other agents
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Connections to 3D-printing, sheet-metal and CNC fabrication services
Free
text-to-cad is free and open source under the MIT license and runs locally through uv; any connected fabrication services are billed by those providers.
Best for
Engineers and makers who want their coding agent to design and check real, manufacturable parts from a prompt.
Not ideal for
Teams that need full-featured parametric CAD suites such as SolidWorks or Fusion with collaborative PDM workflows.
A capable, agent-native bridge from prompts to manufacturable CAD files that fits naturally into existing coding agents.
text-to-cad shipped v0.7.14 on October 5, 2026, and the repository passed 17,000 GitHub stars while appearing on GitHub Trending.
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Is text-to-cad free?+
Yes - text-to-cad is Free. text-to-cad is free and open source under the MIT license and runs locally through uv; any connected fabrication services are billed by those providers.
Is text-to-cad open source?+
Yes - text-to-cad is open source. text-to-cad is free and open source under the MIT license and runs locally through uv; any connected fabrication services are billed by those providers.
Who is text-to-cad best for?+
Engineers and makers who want their coding agent to design and check real, manufacturable parts from a prompt.
Who is text-to-cad not ideal for?+
Teams that need full-featured parametric CAD suites such as SolidWorks or Fusion with collaborative PDM workflows.
What are the best text-to-cad alternatives?+
The closest text-to-cad alternatives on ai.dosa.dev are copperhead, NVIDIA Personal AI Router (PAIR), WebLLM - all listed under Hardware & Edge AI.
Who makes text-to-cad?+
text-to-cad is developed by earthtojake. It is listed in the Hardware & Edge AI category on ai.dosa.dev.
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