Learning Hierarchical and Geometry-Aware Graph Representations for Text-to-CAD
arXiv cs.AI / 4/14/2026
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Key Points
- The paper targets text-to-CAD generation by addressing failure modes of prior systems that decode directly into executable code without modeling assembly hierarchy or geometric constraints.
- It introduces a hierarchical, geometry-aware graph intermediate representation where multi-level parts/components are nodes and geometric constraints are edges to reduce search space and cascading errors.
- The proposed framework predicts assembly structure and constraints first, then conditions action sequencing and final code generation to improve geometric fidelity and constraint satisfaction.
- It adds a structure-aware progressive curriculum learning strategy using graded tasks with controlled structural edits and synthesizing boundary examples to train more robustly.
- The authors release a 12K instruction-to-CAD dataset (with decomposition graphs, action sequences, and bpy code) and graph- and constraint-oriented evaluation metrics, reporting consistent performance improvements over existing methods.



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