News, updates, and tutorials from the ModelRift team.
We gave six AI agents the same three printable parts to model, three in CadQuery and three in OpenSCAD, then verified every mesh independently. All six came out printable, after 16 failures along the way that the tools reported very differently.
A practical OpenSCAD LLM benchmark comparing Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity, and ModelRift on a detailed Pantheon model.
Getting color information from OpenSCAD's color() calls into a slicer-ready 3MF file is messier than it looks. Here's how we built it.
A look at how parametric UI layers for OpenSCAD evolved from Thingiverse magic comments in 2013 to today's cloud renderers, and the design choices behind ModelRift's implementation.
A short, practical guide to 3D printing file formats - what each one stores, where it falls short, and which one you actually need for your workflow.
OpenSCAD's functional language makes it ideal for AI-assisted 3D modeling - better LLM generation, safer sandboxing, and fast rendering with Manifold.
Publish sessions as public models, create a profile, and share remixable OpenSCAD examples.
We rebuilt the interface around the AI chat so you can edit code and view your model together, plus a few quality-of-life upgrades.
Introducing ModelRift - a browser-based OpenSCAD editor for creating and sharing parametric 3D models
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