Totally worth the 10,000 hours to build this graphics engine

Over the past few years I’ve been building up a set of principles to understand the world by: to create an intuition of what the best thing to do is in isolation from what everyone around you thinks. I’m gonna start sharing some of these to hopefully help others

AI will change how hardware gets designed. But first, someone has to fix the software hardware engineers use every day. You can’t build great AI on top of a foundation that was never designed for it. We’re not building a CAD plugin. We’re rebuilding the entire CAD stack—from geometry kernels to user interfaces—so both humans and AI can design dramatically faster. That’s the hard part. That’s what we’re doing at Aurorin. If this is something you want to spend your life building, come do it with us. aurorincad.com/careers/found…

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When the greats reach out

You should be able to talk to your CAD software. In Aurorin you can just write down what you’re thinking and work with it to design your parts.  All the major CAD tools are slow and require lots of tedious work to use. They still use kernels from the 80s. We’re making Aurorin with a brand new CAD kernel for much faster performance and an AI native interface.

Download on Mac or Windows and let us know what you think at aurorincad.com

We have a new 3D interactive landing page!

Oh my god solidworks is really bad

This is exactly what we’re doing

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Obviously it’s not perfect yet but we’re rapidly iterating from user feedback to add the most critical features first. That means expanding our kernel, adding more UI tools and of course expanding the capabilities of our AI agent to let engineers move more and more to a higher level of abstraction. I’ve already shown people demos where we can have the agent make a part in under 10 minutes that took them 8 hours to make in something like Onshape. So please keep giving any feedback. That’s the most valuable thing: no matter how critical it is

Aurorin’s custom kernel loads huge files in seconds instead of hours in Parasolid. It’s interesting how people don’t understand that making your own CAD kernel means you don’t have to license Parasolid. So many of the major CAD tools (Solidworks, Onshape etc) do this and so are limited by the slow performance of this kernel built in the 1980s.

Dang why my doordasher going through north korea @DoorDash

When the previous CEO of auto desk says your CAD software is bad maybe that means it’s good…

Y Combinator @ycombinator Launches of the Week: (This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest) 1) Sureform @sureformhq: Founded by Ananth Kashyap @ananthkashyap99, Sureform connects real-world workplaces and skilled trade workers with robotics labs to collect task-specific training data for robot foundation models. Know More At: sureformhq.com 2) Docura Health @DocuraHealth: Founded by Akhil Sachdev @akhil_sachdev, Docura Health reduces settlement time in workers’ compensation cases by automating medical record review, chronologies, and report drafting with AI. Know More At: docurahealth.com 3) Confluence Labs @_confluencelabs: Founded by Niranjan Baskaran and Brent Burdick @BingBongBrent, Confluence Labs is an AI research lab focused on learning efficiency. Know More At: confluence.sh 4) Jinba: Founded by Shoya Matsumori @pineforesta and Takuya Norisugi @Gozengogo_, Jinba lets enterprise teams vibe-code AI workflows instead of drag and drop. Know More At: jinba.io 5) Condor Energy: Founded by Jean Costa de Beauregard, Clément Grivel, and Florian Pérocheau, Condor Energy is an Energy OS enabling a reliable, cheap, and sustainable electricity supply. Know More At: condor.energy 6) Bubble Lab @bubblelab_ai: Founded by Selina Li @Selinaliyy and Zach Zhong @zhubzyz, Bubble Lab lets you deploy Pearl, your ops super-employee, directly into Slack. Know More At: bubblelab.ai 7) Pluto: Founded by Ronit Jain and Aarav Patel, Pluto is the first regulated exchange for compute. Know More At: pluto.trade 8) Aurorin CAD @AurorinCAD: Founded by Michael Baron @NominalAviator, Aurorin CAD helps hardware companies ship faster. Know More At: aurorincad.com 9) Cajal @CajalResearch: Founded by Luke Johnston @lukerj00 and Pedro Nobre @pedro_nobre0, Cajal is scaling formal verification to accelerate scientific discovery. Know More At: caj.al Post: menlotimes.com/post/y-combin… Source: ycombinator.com/launches

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What's interesting about Aurorin is that instead of building an AI chat plugin for existing CAD software, they're building new CAD software from scratch. This would have been impossible before AI coding got good, because Solidworks is 10M lines of code. But it is now plausible for a small team to just rebuild it.

Somebody seems to be rooting against us. You know, what great words of encouragement. It’s crazy a single person made so much progress making a new kernel in under 2 months!