MECH-022 · Parametric Mechanical Parts · difficulty 4/5
Stepped shaft with retaining-ring groove
sha256:84a92efb1c0d4e6f…
§1Prompt verbatim
Stepped shaft: Ø 20 × 30 mm, then Ø 16 × 25 mm, then Ø 12 × 20 mm. On the Ø 16 step, machine an external retaining-ring groove per DIN 471 for a 16 mm shaft (groove Ø 15.2 ± 0.05 mm, width 1.1 +0.14/0 mm, edge 7.0 mm from the Ø20→Ø16 shoulder).
§2Ground-truth spec
shells1
watertighttrue
manifoldtrue
acceptance ε±0.05 mm
featuresgroove_DIN471_16, shoulder_20_16, shoulder_16_12
§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
0.7996✓
Adam (CADcrush)
Adam (CADcrush)
CADcrush
0.6038✗
GPT-5 → CadQuery
GPT-5 → CadQuery
OpenAI + CadQuery 2.4
0.5859✗
Zoo Text-to-CAD
Zoo Text-to-CAD
Zoo (KittyCAD)
0.57212✗
Claude Opus 4.7 → CadQuery
Claude Opus 4.7 → CadQuery
Anthropic + CadQuery 2.4
0.51011✗
Gemini 2.5 Pro → OpenSCAD
Gemini 2.5 Pro → OpenSCAD
Google + OpenSCAD 2024.06
0.3920✗
Spline AI
Spline AI
Spline.design
0.0920✗
Trellis 3D
Trellis 3D
Microsoft Research
0.0290✗
no manifold solid produced
Claude Opus 4.7 → OpenSCAD
Claude Opus 4.7 → OpenSCAD
Anthropic + OpenSCAD 2024.06
—18✗
no manifold solid produced
DeepCAD
DeepCAD
Wu et al. 2021 (research)
—74✗
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
| Agent | Watert. | Manif. | Named-Dimension RMSE | GD&T Compliance | FeatRec | P@1 | p50 | latency | cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Baseline (Mech-E) | ✓ | 0.973 | 0.081 | 0.863 | 0.902 | 1.000 | — | 873.8s | $5.178 |
| Adam (CADcrush) | ✓ | 0.939 | 0.170 | 0.624 | 0.734 | 0.000 | — | 7.9s | $0.320 |
| GPT-5 → CadQuery | ✓ | 0.939 | 0.217 | 0.604 | 0.693 | 0.000 | — | 36.2s | $0.173 |
| Zoo Text-to-CAD | ✓ | 0.934 | 0.150 | 0.659 | 0.705 | 0.000 | — | 5.3s | $0.182 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 → CadQuery | ✓ | 0.931 | 0.216 | 0.612 | 0.748 | 0.000 | — | 41.5s | $0.335 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro → OpenSCAD | × | 0.912 | 0.297 | 0.435 | 0.504 | 0.000 | — | 24.0s | $0.105 |
| Spline AI | × | 0.864 | 0.518 | 0.027 | 0.092 | 0.000 | — | 6.1s | $0.039 |
| Trellis 3D | × | 0.854 | 0.541 | 0.056 | 0.216 | 0.000 | — | 12.5s | $0.052 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 → OpenSCAD kernel error: BRepCheck_NotClosed | × | 0.000 | — | — | — | 0.000 | — | 29.2s | $0.291 |
| DeepCAD kernel error: BRepCheck_NotClosed | × | 0.000 | — | — | — | 0.000 | — | 4.0s | $0.019 |