An open-source text-to-CAD app that writes editable code, not a black-box mesh

CADAM, the open-source project behind Adam (adam.new), turns plain language and reference images into 3D CAD models entirely in the browser, and it has cleared 4,400 GitHub stars. The useful distinction from most "AI 3D" tools is what it hands back. Instead of an opaque finished mesh you cannot meaningfully edit, it generates parametric OpenSCAD code, runs that through an OpenSCAD WebAssembly build client-side, and exposes the dimensions as live sliders.

So a generated part stays a real engineering object: change a value and the geometry updates, then export to .STL, .SCAD or .DXF for printing or manufacture. It ships under GPL v3 with the BOSL, BOSL2 and MCAD libraries bundled, and nothing leaves the browser to render.

The open question is fidelity. Text-to-CAD lives or dies on whether the generated constraints survive contact with a real tolerance, and code you can read and correct is a far better starting point than a mesh you cannot. For hobbyist printing and quick parametric parts, it is already a genuinely useful front end.