Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models

Very cool! This reminds me of a use case I explored a few years ago—customizing furniture with different fabrics, wood finishes, and design options. In physical showrooms, furniture stores can usually only display a single version of each piece, but customers often want to visualize how the same item would look in various configurations. That’s where a digital tool could really shine.

One concept I explored was creating an interactive app where users can experiment with different material options—essentially a real-time configurator. There’s a great example here [1], where if you model an object as a .obj file (possibly similar to Adam’s parametric models), you can tweak its materials and colors dynamically. IKEA seems to have something similar in production for some of their products [2].

I experimented with Adam as well, and it did a surprisingly good job. The only catch: if you try to iterate too much, it tends to alter the form of the object. My ideal version of this would involve a professional photographer capturing high-resolution images of, say, a couch. Then I’d upload them into Adam, generate realistic renders with different fabrics or finishes, and download the final variants as high-quality images to use in catalogs or ecommerce.

[1] https://angon.me/experiments/6/

[2] https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ektorp-2-seat-sofa-hakebo-grey-...

[3] https://app.adamcad.com/share/2f1e68ad-2cdd-4613-8fdc-fc33f2...

Well, this certainly exceeded my expectations.

I asked for "something cute" and got a cute panda. I asked it to make its eyes bigger, and it did.

It wasn't a clean model by any means, but damn, pretty good considering I can probably fix this up faster than I could create it from 0.

One thing no 3D AI tool has ever done is to focus on the concept of enhancing or restyling the textures of existing, UV-unwrapped 3D models. I had to build my own pipeline on ComfyUI and Blender scripts, exporting ID maps and black/white masks from the model UV, in order to get a Stable Diffusion to paint within the boundaries of the UV and consider it as means of painting. Using cavity maps also helped with the model create boundaries. But now I am able to quickly apply, let's say, comic-book style art into existing textures of existing models.

Have you considered providing built-in tools for mesh decimation and UV unwrapping? I know it can be quickly done with meshlab, but I imagine not a lot of Adam users would even understand the need for decimation. Any possibility for also automating rigging?

Feature request: since it's using OpenSCAD under the hook, it would be great to be able to download the .scad file

The "creative" mode seems to be ok, but my main interest (the parametric) failed in my first test: generate a bottle.

But anyway, good job!

I've had some success with openSCAD and this MCP, feel free to ping if that's helpful context

https://github.com/jhacksman/OpenSCAD-MCP-Server

This is not in my area of expertise, so I apologize if this question is bad, but can blender do more in terms of creating 3D models than OpenSCAD? If so, wouldn't it mean that if there was a blender equivalent of this, then the capabilities for 3D modelling would be even greater? I have to guess that it's harder to achieve something like this in Blender than in OpenSCAD?

I tried a couple of prompts and never got anything usable.

Quite surprised that:

>Create a gridfinity storage unit with dividers

failed so badly (it created a vertically oriented wall-mount type thing with two extraneous recesses at the top)

The thing is, OpenSCAD is dead simple for things which can be modeled using cubes, cylinders, and spheres (and mathematical transformations/positioning of such components) --- that's the great thing.

The awful thing is one's ability to model in OpenSCAD is strongly limited by one's fluency with mathematics (and esp. trigonometry) --- if this tool could help with that latter aspect it would be far more interesting to me (but I'm obviously not the target audience).

Somewhat related, but I'd love GPT enabled multi-physics simulations on objects. Designing in CAD, especially for intricate objects seems (currently) to be better when done by "hand", but I'd absolutely love to use speech-to-text to run different simulations on said objects.

I'm excited to try this with my 11-year old. We love 3d printing stuff, but have been mostly limiting ourselves to existing works on printables. I curious how well the output here works in our prusa.

I quite like the product and it has appeared just as I need it, I am struggling with designing a case for a project right now via fusion.

I have noticed that the tool does not do quite what I want it to. It reminds me of MidJourney a couple years ago. I might have to build a workflow where I design parts in Adam and arrange them in other tools. As details I supply for arrangement appear to being applied to individual parts.

Do you have any language that is getting better results than others?

What's the topology like on Creative models? I spent a lot of time last night trying to fix up some awful topology on a model I downloaded from the internet, will I have to go through the same thing if I make a model with this?