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earthtojake: text-to-cad (robotics / CAD tooling)

Skoor 95 · n = 6 signals · confidence 1.0 [source]

What they built

text-to-cad is a plugin that lets AI agents generate 3D models as STEP, GLB, STL or 3MF files, run design-for-manufacturing checks, produce engineering drawings, and connect to 3D printing, sheet metal and CNC services [source]. It says it works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and Grok through plugins or the skills framework [source]. It is MIT licensed and sends telemetry by default [source].

Related repos include step.parts, which offers 12,000+ open source STEP parts [source], and cad-viewer, a browser viewer that handles STEP, URDF, SDF and SRDF files [source].

Record

Measured:

text-to-cad has 20,324 stars and 2,002 forks, and was created 2026-04-22 [source].

It gains 3,531 stars per month and had 942 commits in 90 days [source].

step.parts has 382 stars (73 per month), and its last push was 2026-06-13 [source].

The profile shows 1,287 commit contributions in the last year and 504 followers, with an account created in 2015 [source].

A 2017 repo was a project for COMP9417 at UNSW [source].

All six signals come from GitHub, and they cover only two repos [source].

Inference: The founder likely studied at UNSW.

Inference: Stars measure attention, not use. Install counts and active users are not in the evidence.

Real name, company, location, funding and prior employers are not in the evidence.

Why now

The plugin is distributed through agent skill frameworks across several major coding agents [source].

Inference: Agent plugin ecosystems give a solo builder distribution that previously required a sales channel into CAD users.

Inference: URDF/SDF support in cad-viewer points toward robotics workflows, but robotics customers are not in the evidence.

Unknowns

Whether a company exists: not in the evidence.
Revenue, users and telemetry figures: not in the evidence.
Commit authorship split between the founder, outside contributors and agents: not in the evidence.
Whether the fabrication-service connections carry referral or commercial terms: not in the evidence.

Questions for the room

Telemetry is on by default. How many weekly active users does it show, and how does that compare with the 20,324 stars?
Of the 942 commits in 90 days, how many are yours, how many came from outside contributors, and how many did agents write?
Which fabrication services does text-to-cad connect to, and does any money or order data flow through those connections today?

What would move the Skoor

It would rise with telemetry showing sustained active use or paid fabrication orders. It would fall if usage is a small fraction of stars, or if step.parts going quiet since June 2026 is repeated on text-to-cad.