Zoo

Modern CAD software for the AI era.

[Zoo @zoodotdev]

Zoo Design Studio just got a major upgrade, constraint-driven sketching! 🎉

While AI has been one of our biggest differentiators, we’re also leveling up the core design experience, starting with faster, cleaner, more intuitive sketching.

Read more about what’s new: https://t.co/LzwkEaGRhD

[Zoo @zoodotdev]

Fully customizable annotations are available in Zoo Design Studio within our new GD&T feature set.

Can be set up traditionally, via Zookeeper, or programmatically via KCL.

[max margorskyi @margorskyi]

a car bumper created in Zoo Design Studio using basic surface modeling WIP features: sweep for the rough shape, extrude/split for the cutouts, and mirror for the second half

[max margorskyi @margorskyi]

manually creating models in ZDS is fun - you can jump between classic CAD UI and code. AI is sneaking even into this workflow though. sometimes I just ask what’s next, or what I forgot - and it nails it every time. tysm. btw you can check out this model in the aquarium: https://t.co/m7aFMh78oE

[max margorskyi @margorskyi]

Blockout of a turbojet turbine blade w the root, made with Zoo Design Studio. Another piece from our little project - an educational study model for kids. Creates mostly manually, with little help from AI to understand what are the options.

[Jordan Noone 🇺🇸 @jordannoone]

@emm0sh if there was only a platform that had this today

[max margorskyi @margorskyi]

lovely surfaces, just joy to watch. ai to cad is getting slick. next stop - legit airfoil profiles. created w @zoodotdev ai

[max margorskyi @margorskyi]

manufacturing videos are so satisfying. I love rebuilding this stuff in cad. I'm manually making just the rough part though. And let zookeeper ai clean it up.

[Zoo @zoodotdev]

Check out this Orion concept model made by @margorskyi using only Zookeeper

[max margorskyi @margorskyi]

The finest European carpentry was done centuries ago on this kind of workbench. Yet it’s almost extinct today.

It inspired me to build my own version in my tiny, can’t‑swing‑a‑cat workshop 5 years ago https://t.co/ZmMsWStObv, though finding the original drawings was insanely hard.

Today I’m using Zookeeper AI to convert drawings from the L’art du menuisier, written back in 1777 into CAD, so we can preserve them forever and share them in our public gallery.

It even generated the dovetail joints and pegs! I’ll be updating this project over time to recreate more antique tools.

[max margorskyi @margorskyi]

zookeeper surprised me by generating a solid blade drum assembly for my little project. It even slapped the blade roots onto the blades, didn’t ask for that, but yeah, sure, tysm. Project is gonna be a study model of a turbine, for kids.

[Zoo @zoodotdev]

"Looking at other software, and performing security research on it, is a great way to find become more creative when looking for security problems in Zoo's systems."

Read more in Max Ammann’s latest blog post:
https://t.co/DkaOcynTlE

[Austin Martin @Austin_F_M]

8/ Voting is live on Zoo's Aquarium page through May 11.

📦 Like all 9 of my submissions, comment which design you want, and I will personally 3D print and ship it to you (assuming I win a printer).

Ctrl+F "austin" to find me:
Aquarium CAD Gallery | Zoo

[Austin Martin @Austin_F_M]

7/ Text-to-CAD is not replacing engineers. But an engineer who knows how to prompt is now dramatically faster than one who does not.

Also @zoodotdev if you are reading this, if you pay me, I'll keep making models for you.

[Austin Martin @Austin_F_M]

5/ 💡 Specificity is everything.

"Add a dome" fails.

"Add a hemispherical cap, 18mm radius, centered on the heel, tangent to the cheek surfaces" succeeds.

Dimensions, positions, and relationships must be explicit.

[Austin Martin @Austin_F_M]

3/ All built from scratch in Zoo Design Studio. No manual sketching. 800 minutes of Zookeeper thinking time. 240 minutes of human thinking time.

[Austin Martin @Austin_F_M]

2/ The lineup:

🛰️ CubeSat 1U Exterior Assembly
🔥 Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger for HPC
🏗️ Lighthouse Cross-Section
🚢 Ship in a Bottle
⏰ Skeleton Cuckoo Clock
📐 Sokutei Mark II Marking Gauge
🌍 Tellurion Earth-Moon-Sun System
💨 Wind Turbine for FDM
🦾 Prosthetic Finger for FDM

[Caleb @Caleb30094457]

Just completed my submission to #ZooMakeathon
JAMB - Just Another Modular Battery-pack
Easily swap your 18650's li-on batteries between your Arduino projects

3 easy to print parts + your own custom case thanks to zookeeper ai

Feel free to remix: https://t.co/1QFLM8vu7u

[unrealism @ismysecretland]

I made myself a retro PC-style ipad stand using @zoodotdev I basically relied on the ai assistant zookeeper throughout the entire design process for #ZooMakeathon It did take longer to adjust the model prompt by prompt, but it did a GREAT job of completing the task😌