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AgenticCADedit: A Stateful, Tool-Mediated Agentic Approach to Multimodal 3D CAD Editing

arXiv cs.GR details AgenticCADedit, a stateful CAD-editing pipeline that lets multimodal requests be applied as small, verifiable actions instead of …

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TAPESIM: Efficient Simulation of Adhesive Tape Dispensing for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv cs.GR details TapeSim, a tape-dispensing simulator that keeps most wound material rigid while concentrating deformation near the unwind point. …

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