2 posts tagged with "Design"

TL;DR​

• The FreeCAD MCP server lets agents create documents, add solids, edit dimensions, and export STL or STEP on your computer — FreeCAD stays open locally; geometry isn't modeled in the cloud.
• FreeCAD is open-source parametric CAD used for product design, maker projects, and mesh export — a practical fit when you want editable solids instead of one-shot mesh prompts.
• Built for makers and designers who already slice STLs or send STEP to a shop, and who'd rather describe a bracket or enclosure in chat than click through every sketch constraint alone.

Saturday morning at the bench. You need a simple enclosure base — 80×60×12 mm with four corner posts — before the printer finishes its current job. FreeCAD is already open on your Mac. You're in chat, not in the Part Design workbench, asking for the base plus an STL on your Desktop.

That's the loop: describe → model locally → export → slice. The FreeCAD integration on MCPBundles is for that loop when Desktop is running on the same machine.

Most design operations work is repetitive data movement. Audit your component library to find unused styles, then archive them. Sync design token updates from Figma variables to your codebase. Export every frame that matches a naming pattern as 2× PNG. Post review comments on every screen in a flows section. Attach dev resources (component mappings, Storybook links) to library components. Debug why a webhook stopped firing.

Each of those is a 30-minute task across Figma's UI, REST API docs, and your terminal — and a 2-minute task as a chat message — if your AI agent can actually call the Figma API at the right granularity. This guide is the use-case version of "AI + Figma": what you ask, what the agent does, what comes back. The protocol underneath is MCP (Model Context Protocol), the bundle is /skills/figma on MCPBundles, but the framing here is workflow-first.