text-to-cad

text-to-cad is a library of agent skills for generating, inspecting, sourcing, slicing, and handing off CAD and robot-description artifacts from local project files.

CAD

URDF

SRDF / MoveIt2

🧰 Skills

Install the library to give agents focused workflows for CAD, fabrication, robot description files, simulation, and local review.

Skill	Summary	Source
CAD	Creates and edits CAD models from plain-language or image requests, with STEP as the main output along with options to export to STL, 3MF and GLB.	skills/cad
CAD Viewer	Shows local browser previews for CAD and robot files.	skills/cad-viewer
step.parts	Finds off-the-shelf STEP parts like screws, bearings, motors, and connectors.	skills/step-parts
DXF	Creates 2D DXF drawings like profiles, templates, gaskets, and cut layouts from Python sources or CAD geometry.	skills/dxf
URDF	Writes robot structure files with links, joints, limits, inertials, and meshes.	skills/urdf
SRDF	Adds MoveIt planning groups, end effectors, poses, and collision rules to a URDF.	skills/srdf
SDF	Creates simulator models and worlds with frames, physics, sensors, and lights.	skills/sdf
SendCutSend	Checks DXF and STEP files before upload to SendCutSend.	skills/sendcutsend
DfAM Check	Measures mesh printability per process: wall thickness, overhangs, support volume, and build orientation.	skills/dfam-check
G-code	Slices supported mesh files into validated, printer-profiled FDM .gcode with real slicer CLIs.	skills/gcode
Bambu Labs	Dry-runs, uploads, and cautiously starts local Bambu Lab print jobs from validated .gcode.	skills/bambu-labs

💻 Installation

Install or clone from main: it is the source tree, and every skill's requirements.txt pins the cadgen release it was published with. (models/, the fixture corpus, arrives as small LFS pointers and is not needed to use the skills.)

Skills

Install text-to-cad with the Skills CLI:

npx skills add earthtojake/text-to-cad

This is the preferred installation path. It installs the individual skills directly for supported agents.

Use the same command to update. add re-fetches the package and overwrites what is already installed, so it both refreshes existing skills and installs any skill added in a newer release. npx skills update only refreshes skills already in your lockfile, so it silently misses new ones — which matters here, because releases do add skills.

Neither command removes a skill that was retired upstream; drop one with npx skills remove <skill> if you need to.

(npx skills install … still works — it is an undocumented alias for add.)

Plugins

Provider-native plugin installs are also available for Codex, Claude Code, and Grok Build:

# Codex (requires Codex 0.142.0 or newer)
codex plugin marketplace add earthtojake/text-to-cad
codex plugin add cad@text-to-cad

Codex resolves this repository-root plugin only from 0.142.0 onward. On older versions the plugin is skipped silently and never appears in codex plugin list; upgrade with npm install -g @openai/codex@latest.

# Claude Code
claude plugin marketplace add earthtojake/text-to-cad
claude plugin install cad@text-to-cad

Grok Build uses the existing .claude-plugin/marketplace.json; there is no separate Grok plugin manifest.

# Grok Build
grok plugin install earthtojake/text-to-cad --trust
grok plugin enable cad

Restart your agent if newly installed skills do not appear. For local development, branch from main, open PRs against main, and follow CONTRIBUTING.md.

🛠️ Contributing

Branch from main and open PRs against main. For local contribution workflow, skill linking, and validation guidance, see CONTRIBUTING.md.