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There are two. Though I have not tested either really. So let me know how they go if you are able to get in.
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/111259…
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/112355…
Though I recommend not wasting your time. At the moment the AI will not take the place of a developer. You will have to learn FeatureScript, then use the bot to help you code faster, but it won't replace you yet. Eventually yes, but not for the next few years.
You could have CADSharp write your feature. They are very fast and do not outsource to sketchy places. Their contractors are mostly US / Canada based.
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rendercad.ai - Photorealistic product rendering.
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Somebody tried Deepseek???
Wow @dirk_van_der_vaart I'm impressed! It did this first try:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e693b6a0d111676e610db187/w/b92d57bca52b0314a59f835e/e…
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I guess it's just a matter of time for LLMs to get better at FeatureScript. I really hope there are people at PTC/Onshape working on integrating some LLM with the FeatureScript editor. Having it get the errors and debug results seems like we could close the loop more quickly.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
Its going to be a long time until a LLM can produce a useful featurescript. Until then its actually bringing in more work for me. I'm getting lots of requests from new customers who tried to use AI to write the feature - failed - and then decided it was worth paying a professional to make the feature.
@maciek it might be helpful to the community to share where you found this freelancer so that others in the future could avoid being scammed.
Experts in Onshape Automation - Custom Features and Integrated Applications
A lot of errors, but finally it works.
I find that the state of programming LLMs right now basically requires you to know how to program in the language already to get good results out of them, and that's not really an accident because their best training data samples are going to be the ones which include the language used by experts in any particular field. This means that the people least in need of the help from an LLM are the most effective at getting what they're looking for, while the people most in need of the help don't even know what to ask.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | MeddlerFWIW, Chatgpt appears to "know" it. I haven't tested it as yet, but I use it for my other code monke projects.