Comment by pedropaulovc

This is amazing! I have no CAD experience and so I tried creating my own bespoke version of LAD a while ago by crawling the SolidWorks docs into a very LLM-optimized format [1] and then asking Claude Code to write C# code using the SolidWorks SDK. Even with docs, it still struggled: functions that fail quietly, extremely verbose code and with no easy way to run tests to ensure that the results are accurate. As an example, here's the 400 lines of code it produced for an eccentric cam [2]. Attempts to close the loop by feeding CC png renders in multiple views had absolutely horrible results. Claude could not differentiate up from down, features etc. I'll try LAD tomorrow, fingers crossed it work better.

[1] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/offline-solidworks-api-docs

[2] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/harmonic-analyzer/blob/main/...