Text to CAD
Type what you need and get a genuine solid model back: the kind you can open in SolidWorks or Fusion and keep editing, not a mesh you can only print.
What “text to CAD” actually means here
Most tools that claim to turn text into 3D produce a mesh, a shell of triangles that looks right and cannot be edited, dimensioned or machined from. Telosolid produces a solid model: real faces, real edges, real dimensions. That is the difference between something you can 3D print once and something an engineer can work with.
Concretely, you get a STEP file. Open it in SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, Inventor or Rhino and it arrives as editable geometry, not an imported blob.
How to write a prompt that works
The tool is good at geometry and has no idea what you have in your head. Prompts that work read like an instruction to a colleague who cannot see your sketch:
“A 120 × 80 × 10 mm aluminium mounting plate. Four M6 clearance holes, 12 mm in from each corner. A 30 mm bore through the centre. Break all sharp edges.”
That works because every feature has a size and a position. Compare it with a prompt that does not:
“A mounting plate with some holes for a motor.”
Which motor? How thick? Holes where? The tool will build something, and you will spend longer correcting it than you would have spent saying what you meant.
A working checklist
- Overall size first. Length, width, thickness. Everything else hangs off it.
- Give every feature a position. “12 mm from each corner” beats “near the corners”.
- Name standard features. “M6 clearance” is unambiguous; “a bolt hole” is not.
- Units matter. Say mm or inches. It defaults to millimetres.
- One change at a time when refining. It is easier to see what went wrong.
Changing the design afterwards
You do not start over. Say what is wrong and it rebuilds from the design's own history:
- “Make it 12 mm thick instead of 10.”
- “Move the corner holes to a 90 mm pitch.”
- “Add a 5 mm fillet to the outside corners.”
Because the model is rebuilt rather than regenerated from scratch, a change is a change: the rest of the part stays as it was.