Building a CAD Agent: MCP, Tools, or Let AI Write Code?
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If you were building a CAD agent, how would you do it? The most obvious approach is to wrap CAD APIs as tools and expose them to AI through MCP. Need to draw a line? Give it a drawLine tool. Need to create a circle? Add createCircle . Need to change an entity's layer? Here comes setEntityLayer . No…
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Building a CAD Agent: MCP, Tools, or Let AI Write Code?