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Text-to-CAD Evaluation with CADTests

arXiv 2605.07807 ↗First posted 8 May 2026cs.CV cs.AI cs.LGcited by 10

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Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-CAD has recently emerged as an important task with the potential to substantially accelerate design workflows. Despite its significance, there has been surprisingly little work on Text-to-CAD evaluation, and assessing CAD model generation performance remains a considerable challenge. In this work, we introduce a new evaluation perspective for Text-to-CAD based on automated testing. We propose CADTestBench, the first test-based benchmark for Text-to-CAD, based on CADTests, executable software tests that verify whether a generated CAD model satisfies the geometric and topological requirements of the input prompt. Using CADTestBench, we conduct comprehensive benchmarking of recent Text-to-CAD methods and further demonstrate that CADTests can also guide CAD model generation, yielding simple baselines that surpass performance of current methods. CADTestBench code and data are available at GitHub and Hugging Face dataset.

Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 31 of its 45 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 8 May 2026.

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