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FUNC-007 · Functional Intent · FEA-Gated · difficulty 5/5

Heat-sink fin array for 25 W TO-220

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§1Prompt verbatim

Design a fin-array heat sink in 6063-T5 aluminium that holds a TO-220 device (mounting hole pattern given) below 95 °C junction at 25 W in still air at 25 °C ambient. Footprint ≤ 60 × 60 mm, height ≤ 35 mm. Output STEP.

§2Ground-truth spec

shells1
watertighttrue
manifoldtrue
acceptance ε±0.1 mm
featuresTO220_mount, fin_array

§3Reference render

canonical reference · drag to orbit, scroll to zoom

Visualisation is rebuilt in-browser from the canonical parametric description. Scoring is performed against the held-out reference STEP file (sha-256 fingerprint above).

§4Per-agent renders

reference + 10 agent outputs · scored against the held-out STEP
vol IoU · BREP · manifold
canonical reference
REFERENCE
canonical · ground truth
1.000100✓
Human Baseline (Mech-E)
Human Baseline (Mech-E)
n=4 senior engineers
0.6338✗
OpenAI o4 (reasoning) → CadQuery
OpenAI o4 (reasoning) → CadQuery
OpenAI + CadQuery 2.4
0.57013✗
Zoo Text-to-CAD
Zoo Text-to-CAD
Zoo (KittyCAD)
0.48111✗
Claude Sonnet 4.6 → CadQuery
Claude Sonnet 4.6 → CadQuery
Anthropic + CadQuery 2.4
0.38814✗
Claude Opus 4.7 → CadQuery
Claude Opus 4.7 → CadQuery
Anthropic + CadQuery 2.4
0.38512✗
GPT-5 → CadQuery
GPT-5 → CadQuery
OpenAI + CadQuery 2.4
0.38117✗
DeepSeek R1 (reasoning) → CadQuery
DeepSeek R1 (reasoning) → CadQuery
DeepSeek + CadQuery 2.4
0.35613✗
Gemini 2.5 Flash → CadQuery
Gemini 2.5 Flash → CadQuery
Google + CadQuery 2.4
0.24823✗
Claude Opus 4.7 → OpenSCAD
Claude Opus 4.7 → OpenSCAD
Anthropic + OpenSCAD 2024.06
0.2440✗
Gemini 2.5 Pro → OpenSCAD
Gemini 2.5 Pro → OpenSCAD
Google + OpenSCAD 2024.06
0.1960✗
Qwen3 Coder → CadQuery
Qwen3 Coder → CadQuery
Alibaba + CadQuery 2.4
0.17430✗
CAD-Coder R1
CAD-Coder R1
CAD-Coder Labs (research)
0.15232✗
Claude Haiku 4.5 → CadQuery
Claude Haiku 4.5 → CadQuery
Anthropic + CadQuery 2.4
0.12840✗
DeepCAD
DeepCAD
Wu et al. 2021 (research)
0.06273✗
no manifold solid produced
Adam (CADcrush)
Adam (CADcrush)
CADcrush
—79✗
Trellis 3D
Trellis 3D
Microsoft Research
0.0000✗
Spline AI
Spline AI
Spline.design
0.0000✗
GPT-5 Mini → OpenSCAD
GPT-5 Mini → OpenSCAD
OpenAI + OpenSCAD 2024.06
0.000105✗
no manifold solid produced
Llama 3.3 70B → OpenSCAD
Llama 3.3 70B → OpenSCAD
Meta + OpenSCAD 2024.06
—14✗
Hunyuan3D-2
Hunyuan3D-2
Tencent
0.000102✗

Each tile is rebuilt from the canonical parametric description and degraded to match the agent's scored profile (tessellation, non-manifold face removal, dimension scale jitter, missing features). Image-only diffusion models render visually plausible meshes but score in the single digits on BREP fidelity — the geometry is not a manifold solid even when the render reads clean.

§5Per-agent metrics

ranked by Vol IoU · same data as the leaderboard, restricted to this task
AgentWatert.Manif.FeatRecMin-Wall ComplianceFEA-Yield PassP@1p50latencycost
Human Baseline (Mech-E)✓0.9480.9570.8580.8410.000—730.0s$4.929
OpenAI o4 (reasoning) → CadQuery✓0.9350.7220.7140.6220.000—131.2s$0.916
Zoo Text-to-CAD✓0.9180.8070.6910.4790.000—6.7s$0.194
Claude Sonnet 4.6 → CadQuery×0.9130.7330.6470.4740.000—18.8s$0.072
Claude Opus 4.7 → CadQuery×0.9110.6790.6520.5800.000—49.1s$0.291
GPT-5 → CadQuery×0.9050.7060.6590.4750.000—30.7s$0.200
DeepSeek R1 (reasoning) → CadQuery×0.9060.6710.5890.5450.000—119.6s$0.040
Gemini 2.5 Flash → CadQuery×0.8870.5750.5020.3980.000—12.5s$0.020
Claude Opus 4.7 → OpenSCAD×0.8860.6090.5980.3580.000—30.3s$0.261
Gemini 2.5 Pro → OpenSCAD×0.8790.4920.5370.3850.000—34.2s$0.076
Qwen3 Coder → CadQuery×0.8750.6250.4980.3940.000—18.9s$0.025
CAD-Coder R1×0.8750.6720.5170.2950.000—6.1s$0.004
Claude Haiku 4.5 → CadQuery×0.8690.4910.4550.2930.000—9.0s$0.019
DeepCAD×0.8600.4860.3590.1980.000—4.0s$0.017
Adam (CADcrush)
kernel error: BRepCheck_NotClosed
×0.000———0.000—11.7s$0.255
Trellis 3D×0.8500.2140.2170.1000.000—11.7s$0.040
Spline AI×0.8500.0900.0960.0440.000—7.1s$0.047
GPT-5 Mini → OpenSCAD×0.8500.4120.4500.2440.000—12.7s$0.010
Llama 3.3 70B → OpenSCAD
kernel error: BRepCheck_NotClosed
×0.000———0.000—26.5s$0.023
Hunyuan3D-2×0.8500.2100.2350.0970.000—29.2s$0.070