Turning a design idea into a real CAD file has traditionally required learning specialized software like SolidWorks or Fusion 360. CAD Skills instead lets an AI coding assistant do that translation — you describe what you want in plain language, and the AI, equipped with this toolkit, produces an actual usable design file. CAD Skills is a free, open-source (10,400+ GitHub stars) skills library that gives AI agents like Claude Code and Codex the ability to generate, edit and manage CAD models, robot designs and hardware files. It supports 8+ export formats (STEP, STL, 3MF, GLB, DXF, URDF, SRDF, SDF, G-code), integrates with SendCutSend for fabrication validation and Bambu Labs printers for direct 3D printing, and supports MoveIt2 inverse kinematics planning for robot simulation. It includes 10 benchmark examples demonstrating its capabilities, runs entirely locally with no cloud dependency, and has a live demo available separately at demo.cadskills.xyz.
| # | Tool | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ingénieurs | Designers | Développeurs de produits | — | |
| 2 | Rédacteurs de blog/documentation, marketeurs produit, designers et studios de jeux, éditeurs de newsletter, formateurs, organisateurs d'événements | — | |
| 3 | Artistes 3D et utilisateurs de Blender voulant connecter des agents IA (Claude, Cursor, Codex) à leurs scènes | — | |
| 4 | Animateurs indépendants, développeurs de jeux indés, créateurs de vidéos courtes ayant besoin d'animation de personnages sans studio de mocap | — | |
| 5 | Développeurs de jeux amateurs/hobbyistes habitués à GameMaker | — | |
| 6 | Utilisateurs de Mac Apple Silicon souhaitant jouer à des jeux Windows | — | |
| 7 | Développeurs de jeux indépendants, petits studios, créateurs VTuber, designers produit, amateurs d'impression 3D, équipes film/vidéo | — | |
| 8 | Débutants et étudiants apprenant JavaScript via le développement de jeux | — | |
| 9 | Artistes et designers 3D travaillant dans Blender | — | |
| 10 | Joueurs de jeux de rôle sur table à l'aise techniquement, qui ont déjà accès à une clé API IA et veulent jouer en solo ou en petit groupe sans meneur de jeu humain. | — | |
| 11 | Indie game developers, small studios, and pixel artists who need consistent 2D art and audio assets without hiring a dedicated artist. | — | |
| 12 | Administrateurs de serveurs Minecraft et self-hosters voulant de meilleures performances sur du matériel modeste. | — |
A platform that generates playable 3D browser games from a text description and lets you embed them on any website the way you'd embed a YouTube video.
Free, open-source Blender extension that lets AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, and Codex safely inspect and edit 3D scenes with reversible changes and visual proof of what they did.
AI motion-capture tool that turns ordinary video into 3D character animation, no suits or sensors required.
A free, open-source macOS app and CLI that automates running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs via Wine.
An AI tool that turns a text description, an image, or even a video of a person moving into a ready-to-animate 3D character, without needing 3D modeling skills or motion-capture gear.
A free, open-source JavaScript game engine that teaches programming fundamentals by building six classic arcade games.
An AI addon for Blender that generates images, 3D models, textures and videos without leaving the app you're already modeling in.
A free, open-source web app that turns your own ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or DeepSeek API key into an AI Game Master for tabletop RPGs like Shadowrun, Vampire the Masquerade and Call of Cthulhu.
An indie game developer with no art or sound skills can now get a full set of matching pixel-art characters, tiles, and sound effects from a text prompt — instead of hiring an artist or using mismatched free assets.
A Minecraft server rebuilt from scratch in Rust for speed and low resource use — for self-hosters who've hit the ceiling of what a Java-based server can handle on modest hardware.
