FreeCAD isn’t the flashiest option, and I wouldn’t describe it as the most beginner-friendly path on day one.

His latest project is to recreate the Iron Man gauntlet, tailor-made to fit his own hand. “It’s a transformable wearable, based on Iron Man 3 [released in 2013],” says Davenport. “In the movie, the ...

A pattern of tabs and slots can be created with controls for quantity, size, shape, and various offsets for location and ...

In the first of a multi-part series on how to design a custom chip for under $1,000, our Analog Editor gets you started with a Magnificent 7 list of textbooks. TinyTapeout offers a course that ...

Using the images in tandem with an artificial intelligence model that has previously worked with ‘millions’ of digital part ...

There’s a new free AI-powered 3D CAD tool called “Zoo Design Studio”. Zoo Design is a California operation that has produced a new tool that provides simple parametric 3D CAD design features, such as ...

A fascinating proof-of-concept shows how CAD could be done via AI in the future. Today we’ve seen AI tools enter the 3D modeling space with either text-to-3D or image-to-3D solutions. Text or images ...

Abstract: Due to the increasing threats from possible large-scale quantum computers, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has drawn significant attention from various communities recently. In particular, ...

Abstract: With the improvement of VLSI technology, on-chip power grid design is becoming more challenging than before. In this design phase of VLSI CAD, power grids are generated in order to make ...

SolveSpace is a free, open-source CAD tool that fits in 1MB, with a full 3D solver, parametric sketching, and a browser-based ...

FLIP: Benchmark tasks in fitness landscape inference for proteins Christian Dallago, Jody Mou, Kadina E Johnston, Bruce Wittmann, Nick Bhattacharya, Samuel Goldman, Ali Madani, Kevin K Yang NeurIPS ...