Hugging Face Daily PapersZihan Dong, Yuanzhe Liu, Zhiyuan Ma1 min readpaperintermediate
CADWorld: Computer-Use Benchmark for Long-Horizon Computer-Aided Design
Summary
CADWorld is a new benchmark suite of 200 long‑horizon mechanical CAD tasks in FreeCAD, covering sketching, part modeling, assembly, CAM, FEM, and more. Agents interact via screenshots and GUI actions; success is checked by executable validation of the saved CAD artifacts. Seven existing agents achieve at most 17.5 % success versus an 87 % expert baseline, highlighting the gap between GUI competen…
- 200 tasks across 11 mechanical‑CAD workflow categories provide a comprehensive, structured evaluation of computer‑use agents.
- Success criteria are executable checks on persistent FreeCAD artifacts, measuring geometry, constraints, parametric structure, manufacturing state, and simulation results.
- Current agents perform poorly (≤17.5 % success), with failures shifting from artifact creation to structural and geometric correctness as capability improves.
- The benchmark exposes a clear research gap: building agents that can reliably execute long‑horizon, verification‑driven engineering workflows.
Benchmarking realistic engineering workflows pushes AI agents beyond simple GUI navigation toward producing verifiable, domain‑specific artifacts, a prerequisite for practical automation in design and manufacturing.
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