earthtojake
earthtojake is Jake Fitzgerald, an individual developer/creator whose text-to-cad project gives AI coding agents local CAD workflows. The project is open source and free, enabling agents to generate, inspect, edit and export manufacturable 3D models from natural-language or image requests.
At a Glance
- AI coding-agent users and developers
- CAD newcomers and mechanical designers
- Robotics developers and researchers
- Makers and 3D-printing users
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AI Tools by earthtojake
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text-to-cad
AI Agent Plugin for CAD Models
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Latest News
text-to-cad v0.7.14 released with Codex model-opening UX improvements and Windows STEP-import fixes.
v0.7.12 and v0.7.13 releases added faster agent edits/opens, Render Studio and viewer work, install/update improvements, and additional Cursor/Grok installation support.
v0.7.10 and v0.7.11 releases expanded Claude/Cursor/Grok plugin installation and host support.
Jake Fitzgerald announced that the text-to-cad plugin extension was live in Codex Desktop; the project described it as free, open source and locally running.
Products & Services
An open-source plugin, agent-skills library and local CAD harness. It lets AI coding agents generate and edit 3D CAD models, run design-for-manufacturing checks, create engineering drawings, inspect geometry in a local viewer, and connect to fabrication services. It supports STEP as the main output plus GLB, STL, 3MF, DXF and URDF-related workflows.
A local web-based CAD viewer and explorer for reviewing generated geometry and saved models, exposed through the project’s agent-app integrations and localhost workflow.
Bundled skills covering CAD modeling, STEP part lookup, engineering drawings, manufacturing preflight, G-code, robot description files, simulation and ROS 2/MoveIt-oriented workflows.
Market Position
text-to-cad positions itself as a free, local, open-source CAD capability for existing AI coding agents, rather than a standalone browser CAD SaaS product. Its differentiation is the combination of agent plugins/skills, real CAD exports such as STEP, a local viewer, manufacturing checks and robotics/fabrication workflows. Comparable categories include commercial conversational/text-to-CAD products such as Zoo Design Studio/Zookeeper and other AI CAD generators, but text-to-cad emphasizes local execution, extensibility and open-source integration across many agent hosts.
Leadership
Founders
Jake Fitzgerald
Individual creator behind earthtojake and text-to-cad. His personal site says he built an iOS app at 18, built a whiteboard-video web app used by 10,000 UNSW computer-science students, worked on infrastructure at WhatsApp for three years, co-founded the open-source self-custodial options exchange Derive (formerly Lyra) in 2021, and in 2026 was exploring robot foundation models. His GitHub profile links to earthtojake.com, X and LinkedIn; LinkedIn identifies him as building robots at South Park Commons and places him in New York.
Executive Team
Jake Fitzgerald
Creator and maintainer of earthtojake/text-to-cad
Former WhatsApp infrastructure engineer, co-founder of Derive (formerly Lyra), product/design/engineering builder, and robotics-focused independent developer.
Founding Story
The available first-party material presents text-to-cad as Jake Fitzgerald's open-source project for giving AI agents CAD capabilities locally. It grew from his interest in robotics and building tools that let coding agents create and review real 3D geometry, rather than being described as a separately incorporated startup.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The project is distributed as 100% open-source and free software. The official site provides installation through GitHub repositories, plugins and skills rather than paid subscriptions or usage pricing.
Target Markets
- AI coding-agent users and developers
- CAD newcomers and mechanical designers
- Robotics developers and researchers
- Makers and 3D-printing users
- Manufacturing, CNC and sheet-metal workflows
- Rapid concepting and parametric 3D modeling from text or images
- AI-assisted mechanical design and iterative model editing
- Generating production-oriented STEP models and engineering drawings
- Design-for-manufacturing and fabrication preflight
- 3D printing, sheet-metal cutting and CNC workflows
- Robotics parts, URDF/SRDF descriptions and ROS 2/MoveIt workflows