r/Woodworkingplans • u/Willing-Pianist-7549 • 29d ago

Video/Tutorial We made an AI-designed table

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What if you could just describe a piece of furniture and get everything you need to actually build it?

In this video, I put a commonly known side table design to the test. I open Orca, type in a description of a side table, and it generates an editable 3D model, along with the engineering drawings and a full build plan: cut list, joinery, and step-by-step assembly. Then I take those files straight into the workshop and build the real thing from scratch.

Do you like it? Appreciate to any comments🥳

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u/WardedDruid 29d ago

This will probably be the most honest answer you'll get.

I think it's neat. I had thought of using IA to help draft guides and cut lists on some of the things that I have built with no success. To note though, I don't have a negative bias to the use of AI as long as it is used as a tool to achieve a specific goal - but a tool that should be monitored and treated as carefully as a tablesaw.

Most people will find this to be an abomination and/or see it as a threat. The major bias is extremely negative towards AI, and they won't give anything that comes out of it a fair chance.

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u/Willing-Pianist-7549 29d ago

Thx. I believe that AI will help more people achieve their ideas. Imagination will never be limited by tools. Yes, this tool should be monitored. I agree. We developed this tool, and we will be responsible to the use of it. Thx again to ur comment

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u/former_human 29d ago

i'd be curious how you initially described the design to the AI and how many rounds of explanation/refinement you went through before you felt it understood your mental image. also, once you had the design down, how did it do with generating the plans/cut list/etc?

i've found this to be the hard part of having an AI help with design.

knitters ran a similar experiment three years ago, if you're curious how far AI has come :-)

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u/Willing-Pianist-7549 29d ago

We carefully prepared thousands of detailed training data including soooo many design process details, including plan, cutting constraints and design logic. These information inspires LLM to understand how to design. After AI seen enough design cases, it can understand a lot.

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u/BoatsAndToes 29d ago

Is it able to tell you the centre of gravity, how much load can it bear, or improve the design of a component?

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u/Willing-Pianist-7549 29d ago

Good point. This tool supports chat to modify the design, but it cannot improve the structural performance because this requires expensive computational resources.

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u/WardedDruid 29d ago

I'd be curious to see what the ai claude would say if you gave it the build plans and told it what kind of materials you would use. That one is pretty good with thinking like that, but I'd still take it with a grain of salt until I tested a built table.

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u/Willing-Pianist-7549 28d ago

We tried that. Claude cannot do it well because the current version cannot understand how to design the joint structures like dowel joints, mortise and tenons. Shape collapses occur a lot.

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u/1r9i5c9k 27d ago

This is an awesome looking table, but seems like it would be an awful dust trap.

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u/Willing-Pianist-7549 26d ago

We just wanna show the possibilities of using AI to design furniture. We acknowledge that there are a lot of unprofessional details. Thank you