[DannyBee]

I spend a lot of time in eplan, 3d cad programs, and cam programs (when working on machines, furniture, and cnc of furniture or machines respectively :P)

However, the vast majority of time what i'm searching grabcad or friends it's for specific part numbers or parts.

I cannot remember the last time i wanted to try to find some object by generic description. Even as a tool to find possible parts that might fit my task, i don't see how it would make sense, because the stuff that matters is mostly not visual.

IE let's say i'm trying to find ballscrew nuts that might be a replacement for one i can't get anymore.

I'd want to search for ballscrew nuts that have a specific dimension, which maybe it can do (doesn't look like it so far), but the parts that matter are things like "is it preloaded", etc, which wouldn't be part of the description it generates (because it's often not even visualized in the cad model).

This is for mechanical stuff that might be interchangeable. Lots of cad models are of electronics and such that are very much not.

Even when i'm doing 3d printing, most of the time i'd search for the part i'm looking for, not a generic description of what might look like - ie i'm searching for dividers for sidiocrate crates. Giving me thousands of possible things that might be a divider would be pretty useless.

To the degree i search for generic descriptions, people already provide them, and it's not obvious this is a meaningful friction point for them (IE that being able to generate the labels automatically is really valuable)

So while i think this is overall cool, i struggle to think of a truly practical use.