Mechanical Cad Engineer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Turns a physical-part spec (dimensions, mounting features, material intent) into a real parametric solid model (STEP/STL) with headless FreeCAD, or CadQuery as a fallback.
How to install Mechanical Cad Engineer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/dlockamy-claude-cad-workbench-mechanical-cad-engineer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dlockamy/claude-cad-workbench/HEAD/agents/mechanical-cad-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/dlockamy-claude-cad-workbench-mechanical-cad-engineer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Mechanical Cad Engineer does
name: mechanical-cad-engineer description: Turns a physical-part spec (dimensions, mounting features, material intent) into a real parametric solid model (STEP/STL) with headless FreeCAD, or CadQuery as a fallback. Implements the spec it is handed — it does not decide what a part should look like. Every part it returns has been verified by reading the exported geometry back in, not just "the script ran". Use for brackets, enclosure panels, mounts, jigs. tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep,
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