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Loböle packs open CAD, FEM, CAM and an MCP server in one Linux tool (5 stars).

Built on OpenCASCADE, it covers sketches, assemblies, drawings, static and modal FEM, topology optimization and milling output for Mach3, LinuxCNC or GRBL, all reachable from Python and over MCP. By the author's own warning, the CAM has cut real parts on only one machine.

For small machine shops and design engineers: worth a test, not a production CAM yet.

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IFI Gatehouse, 0 stars: a fence contractor's estimating tool where AI reads the bid package and a named person approves every change

The AI proposes findings from drawings, specs and addenda, each tied to the sheet, page and quoted words, and nothing enters the scope until a person accepts it. The motto is AI interprets, code calculates, humans authorize.

For estimators and preconstruction managers: a concrete way to use AI on bid documents without letting it fill gaps with confident numbers.

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Why does AI code like a human? An analytical chemist asks for AI that runs offline and gives the same answer every time

By his own measurements, more than half of what Claude did in a session was drift away from what he asked for. His point for plants: refineries and labs will not hand their data to a model in someone else's cloud, so AI they trust has to run on a laptop, air-gapped, and give the same answer every time.

Pathfinding · Medrado Michael Leal · Oct 18, 2026
Diagram of an AI coding loop of write, run, fail, read the error and retry, next to a black box and a cloud of servers, with the title Why Does AI Code Like a Human?
Image: Medrado Michael Leal, Pathfinding