Is Autodesk’s AI, "Neural CAD" worth getting excited about?

Written by Autodesk Team

What is "Neural CAD"?

This new generative AI technology can create designs spontaneously based on a text prompt and spatial constraints, generating editable precision CAD geometry. Additionally, neural CAD for geometry can also generate the sequence of commands within a traditional parametric CAD software tool needed to create an object. Whether you need organic, curved surfaces found commonly in consumer goods or flat surfaces and clearly defined edges found in mechanical systems, this entirely new, machine learning approach to creating precision geometry promises to transform your workflows.

A new class of AI models

Autodesk imagines a new class of generative AI technologies built using machine learning and artificial neural networks. The first of these is neural CAD, a category of generative AI foundation models trained to directly reason about CAD objects. Moving far beyond the practice of simply incorporating large language models into existing solutions, Autodesk has completely reimagined the traditional software engines that create CAD geometry. This new category of generative AI foundation models offers a path to the future of connected Design and Make processes.