Product Design
Generated meshes are not manufacturable, and that is fine
Generative 3D is useful for judging a direction and useless for making a part. The value is in the handoff between the two.
Aikyora · Jun 3, 2026 · 4 min read
A generated GLB is geometry you can look at. It has no parameters, no manufacturing intent and no tolerance story. Treating it as a model is how a visual study ends up in a quote.
Use it for the question it answers
The question early on is which direction is worth modelling. When generating a variant costs about a credit, you can ask that question five times instead of once, which is the entire point.
Then promote the winner properly
The chosen form gets rebuilt as a parametric solid with named dimensions. From there it behaves like any other model: defeature it, draw it, export it.
Keep the exploration attached
Because the generation, the rebuild and the render happen in one conversation, the reason a form was chosen stays next to the model that resulted from it.