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Bridges the gap between parametric CAD and direct B-Rep synthesis using LLMs and primitive grounding.

arXiv · March 13, 2026 · 2603.11831

Jiahao Li, Qingwang Zhang, Qiuyu Chen, Guozhan Qiu, Yunzhong Lou, Xiangdong Zhou

Why it matters

It enables high-fidelity, executable CAD generation for industrial design by allowing LLMs to ground natural language selections to geometric primitives. This overcomes the paradigm gap that previously limited AI-driven CAD to simple shapes or non-parametric models.

From the abstract

The field of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) generation has made significant progress in recent years. Existing methods typically fall into two separate categorie: parametric CAD modeling and direct boundary representation (B-Rep) synthesis. In modern feature-based CAD systems, parametric modeling and B-Rep are inherently intertwined, as advanced parametric operations (e.g., fillet and chamfer) require explicit selection of B-Rep geometric primitives, and the B-Rep itself is derived from parametric