Create 3D models using AI

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Just come across this site, Chat3D.ai

Wondered if anyone here has tried it yet.  It creates a 3D model for 3D printing from a text description, a sketch, or an image and can interactively modify it.  Might be useful for those struggling toget to grips with 3D CAD?

Russell

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

A different AI has been used by members of the Gaugeone3Dcircle for some time. It can need some tuning and one person who asked for a Victorian era loco driver got a man sitting astride a loco boiler! It is somewhere on the Circle site.
If you can access this link it shows some figures in the chaldron wagons that were derived largely from this technique. The model is actually quite historic as it is the first time anyone actually demonstrated how many people could physically fit in the wagons.
https://gaugeone3dcircle.groups.io/g/home/topic/the_s_d_train/115479440

 

[paul1956Participant @paul1956]

These automatic 3D generating sites aren’t yet much use for designing any engineering subjects. They’re primarily used for creating 3D assets for video games, animation and toys.

The main problem is that they deliver a single mesh file. That may be useful for a single discreet part, but if the geometry isn’t perfect you’ll need to edit it yourself.
It often tries to invent parts that it’s not been given the information for and is highly unlikely to get that imagination aspect correct.

If it builds a complex one piece mesh model you have to break it apart to edit each part.

Editing mesh files precisely is arguably even more complicated than designing from scratch in a proper CAD package.

An example might be a generation of this little battery loco.
At first glance quite good, on closer examination not at all accurate, but worse, completely unprintable and disassembling it to component parts would be a nightmare.

The one aspect it can be good at is creating models of organic forms, eg people. If you’d like to 3D print a driver for your model train/ship/etc. They’ll deliver remarkably good results if you use a photo as an image prompt.

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