The Future of CAD in the Age of AI – Is There One?

I work in industrial design and haven’t really seen an AI tool come close to generating a proper design. A design with wall thickness, bosses, ribs, draft, multiple components etc. So I’m not worried about the immediate future. I’m sure it’s coming though, but that would need to be coupled with sensory feedback systems so that changes can be accurately described using 3d printed parts etc. Or maybe this only happens properly when AI is housed in a robot body so that prototypes can be fitted / tested in the real world and feedback used to adjust the design.

Design doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and right now AI is still very much confined to a box.