Sandflow releases sand3d for code-first 3D

sand3d makes a compelling infrastructure bet: teaching models structured, editable 3D programs may prove more useful than generating opaque meshes.

• –Its named parts, parameters, frames, and joints give LLMs a consistent vocabulary for geometry and assemblies.
• –Sandflow says sand3d programs use 2–6× fewer tokens than comparable Blender Python, CadQuery, or FeatureScript code.
• –The dataset’s reproducible programs could support training and evaluation for code-based 3D generation and robotics simulation.
• –Apache 2.0 code and CC BY 4.0 data make experimentation accessible, though source-asset licensing still requires care.
• –The first release focuses mostly on hard-surface objects, leaving organic forms and character modeling for future work.