Awesome Neural CAD

🎯 The first awesome list featuring visual paper previews - see research at a glance.

📚 We have also included a selection of papers that, while not strictly falling within the CAD domain, demonstrate relevant techniques and methodologies that could benefit CAD research and applications.

🏠 You can also check our Project Homepage.

Generation

Preview	Title	Publication	Links
	HoLa: B-Rep Generation using a Holistic Latent Representation	SIGGRAPH 2025	Paper Project
	CLR-Wire: Towards Continuous Latent Representations for 3D Curve Wireframe Generation	SIGGRAPH 2025	Paper Code
	DTGBrepGen: A Novel B-rep Generative Model through Decoupling Topology and Geometry	CVPR 2025	Paper Code Project
	CADCrafter: Generating Computer-Aided Design Models from Unconstrained Images	CVPR 2025	Paper
	CADDreamer: CAD object Generation from Single-view Images	CVPR 2025	Paper Project
	CAD-GPT: Synthesising CAD Construction Sequence with Spatial Reasoning-Enhanced Multimodal LLMs	arXiv 2025	Paper Project
	Text-to-CAD Generation Through Infusing Visual Feedback in Large Language Models	arXiv 2025	Paper
	Revisiting CAD Model Generation by Learning Raster Sketch	AAAI 2025	Paper
	FlexCAD: Unified and Versatile Controllable CAD Generation with Fine-tuned Large Language Models	ICLR 2025	Paper
	Generating CAD Code with Vision-Language Models for 3D Designs	ICLR 2025	Paper Code
	Don’t Mesh with Me: Generating Constructive Solid Geometry Instead of Meshes by Fine-Tuning a Code-Generation LLM	arXiv 2024	Paper
	CAD-MLLM: Unifying Multimodality-Conditioned CAD Generation With MLLM	arXiv 2024	Paper Project
	Text2CAD: Text to 3D CAD Generation via Technical Drawings	NeurIPS 2024	Paper Code Project
	CadVLM: Bridging Language and Vision in the Generation of Parametric CAD Sketches	ECCV 2024	Paper
	BrepGen: A B-rep Generative Diffusion Model with Structured Latent Geometry	SIGGRAPH 2024	Paper Code
	Learn to Create Simple LEGO Micro Buildings	SIGGRAPH Asia 2024	Paper Code
	Generating 3D House Wireframes with Semantics	ECCV 2024	Paper Project
	SolidGen: An Autoregressive Model for Direct B-rep Synthesis	ICLR 2024	Paper
	Brep2Seq: A Dataset and Hierarchical Deep Learning Network for Reconstruction and Generation of Computer-Aided Design Models	JCDE 2024	Paper Code
	VQ-CAD: Computer-Aided Design model generation with vector quantized diffusion	CAGD 2024	Paper
	PartNeRF: Generating Part-Aware Editable 3D Shapes without 3D Supervision	CVPR 2023	Paper Code Project
	SketchGen: Generating Constrained CAD Sketches	ICCV 2023	Paper Code
	Hierarchical Neural Coding for Controllable CAD Model Generation	ICML 2023	Paper Code Project
	SkexGen: Autoregressive Generation of CAD Construction Sequences with Disentangled Codebooks	ICML 2022	Paper Code Project
	Discovering Design Concepts for CAD Sketches	NeurIPS 2022	Paper Code
	CAD2Sketch: Generating Concept Sketches from CAD Sequences	SIGGRAPH Asia 2022	Paper Code Project
	Free2CAD: Parsing Freehand Drawings into CAD Commands	SIGGRAPH 2022	Code Project
	DeepCAD: A Deep Generative Network for Computer-Aided Design Models	ICCV 2021	Paper Code Project
	Engineering Sketch Generation for Computer-Aided Design	CVPR 2021 workshop	Paper
	Engineering Sketch Generation for Computer-Aided Design	CVPR 2021	Paper Code
	Computer-aided design as language	NeurIPS 2021	Paper
	DeepSVG: A Hierarchical Generative Network for Vector Graphics Animation	NeurIPS 2020	Paper Code Project
	SDM-NET: Deep Generative Network for Structured Deformable Mesh	TOG 2019	Paper Code
	StructureNet: Hierarchical Graph Networks for 3D Shape Generation	Siggraph Asia 2019	Paper Code Project
	AtlasNet: A Papier-Mâché Approach to Learning 3D Surface Generation	CVPR 2018	Paper Code Project

Reconstruction

Preview	Title	Publication	Links
	Parametric Point Cloud Completion for Polygonal Surface Reconstruction	CVPR 2025	Paper Project
	BGPSeg: Boundary-Guided Primitive Instance Segmentation of Point Clouds	TIP 2025	Paper
	CAD-Recode: Reverse Engineering CAD Code from Point Clouds	arXiv 2024	Paper Code
	Img2CAD: Conditioned 3D CAD Model Generation from Single Image with Structured Visual Geometry	arXiv 2024	Paper
	PS-CAD: Local Geometry Guidance via Prompting and Selection for CAD Reconstruction	arXiv 2024	Paper
	Img2CAD: Reverse Engineering 3D CAD Models from Images through VLM-Assisted Conditional Factorization	arXiv 2024	Paper Project
	Draw Step by Step: Reconstructing CAD Construction Sequences from Point Clouds via Multimodal Diffusion	CVPR 2024	Paper
	CAD-SIGNet: CAD Language Inference from Point Clouds using Layer-wise Sketch Instance Guided Attention	CVPR 2024	Paper
	Point2CAD: Reverse Engineering CAD Models from 3D Point Clouds	CVPR 2024	Paper Code Project
	DPA-Net: Structured 3D Abstraction from Sparse Views via Differentiable Primitive Assembly	ECCV 2024	Paper
	Differentiable Convex Polyhedra Optimization from Multi-view Images	ECCV 2024	Paper Code
	PolyGNN: Polyhedron-based Graph Neural Network for 3D Building Reconstruction from Point Clouds	ISPRS 2024	Paper Code
	Split-and-Fit: Learning B-Reps via Structure-Aware Voronoi Partitioning	SIGGRAPH 2024	Paper Code
	D2CSG: Unsupervised Learning of Compact CSG Trees with Dual Complements and Dropouts	Neurips 2024	Paper Code
	SECAD-Net: Self-Supervised CAD Reconstruction by Learning Sketch-Extrude Operations	CVPR 2023	Paper Code
	PlankAssembly: Robust 3D Reconstruction from Three Orthographic Views with Learnt Shape Programs	ICCV 2023	Paper Code Project
	Surface and Edge Detection for Primitive Fitting of Point Clouds	SIGGRAPH 2023	Code
	BPNet: Bézier Primitive Segmentation on 3D Point Clouds	IJCAI 2023	Paper Code
	Vitruvion: A Generative Model of Parametric CAD Sketches	ICLR 2022	Paper Code
	Reconstructing compact building models from point clouds using deep implicit fields	ISPRS 2022	Paper Code
	CADOps-Net: Jointly Learning CAD Operation Types and Steps from Boundary-Representations	3DV 2022	Paper
	Point2Cyl: Reverse Engineering 3D Objects from Point Clouds to Extrusion Cylinders	CVPR 2022	Paper Code Project
	ExtrudeNet: Unsupervised Inverse Sketch-and-Extrude for Shape Parsing	ECCV 2022	Paper Code Project
	Unsupervised Learning of Shape Programs with Repeatable Implicit Parts	NeurIPS 2022	Paper Project
	Reconstructing editable prismatic CAD from rounded voxel models	SIGGRAPH Asia 2022	Paper
	ComplexGen: CAD Reconstruction by B-Rep Chain Complex Generation	SIGGRAPH 2022	Paper Code Project
	CAPRI-Net: Learning Compact CAD Shapes with Adaptive Primitive Assembly	CVPR 2022	Paper Code Project
	LC2WF:Learning to Construct 3D Building Wireframes from 3D Line Clouds	BMVC 2022	Paper Code
	HPNet: Deep Primitive Segmentation Using Hybrid Representations	ICCV 2021	Paper Code
	CPFN: Cascaded Primitive Fitting Networks for High-Resolution Point Clouds	ICCV 2021	Paper Code
	CSG-Stump: A Learning Friendly CSG-Like Representation for Interpretable Shape Parsing	ICCV 2021	Paper Code Project
	PC2WF: 3D Wireframe Reconstruction from Raw Point Clouds	ICLR 2021	Paper Code
	Intuitive and Efficient Roof Modeling for Reconstruction and Synthesis	SIGGRAPH Asia 2021	Paper Code
	Sketch2CAD: Sequential CAD Modeling by Sketching in Context	SIGGRAPH Asia 2020	Paper Code Project
	CvxNet: Learnable Convex Decomposition	CVPR 2020	Paper Code Project
	BSP-Net: Generating Compact Meshes via Binary Space Partitioning	CVPR 2020 oral	Paper Code Project
	PIE-NET: Parametric Inference of Point Cloud Edges	Neurips 2020	Paper Code
	UCSG-Net -- Unsupervised Discovering of Constructive Solid Geometry Tree	Neurips 2020	Paper Code Project
	ParSeNet: A Parametric Surface Fitting Network for 3D Point Clouds	ECCV 2020	Paper Code Project
	Supervised Fitting of Geometric Primitives to 3D Point Clouds	CVPR 2019 oral	Paper Code
	CSGNet: Neural Shape Parser for Constructive Solid Geometry	CVPR 2018	Paper Code

Abstraction

Preview	Title	Publication	Links
	ShapeLib: Designing a library of procedural 3D shape abstractions with Large Language Models	arxiv 2025	Paper
	Improving Unsupervised Visual Program Inference with Code Rewriting Families	ICCV 2023 (oral)	Paper Code Project
	SweepNet: Unsupervised Learning Shape Abstraction via Neural Sweepers	ECCV 2024	Paper Code Project
	ShapeMOD: Macro Operation Discovery for 3D Shape Programs	SIGGRAPH 2021	Paper Code Project
	Learning Unsupervised Hierarchical Part Decomposition of 3D Objects from a Single RGB Image	CVPR 2020	Paper Code
	ShapeAssembly: Learning to Generate Programs for 3D Shape Structure Synthesis	SIGGRAPH Asia 2020	Paper Code Project
	Superquadrics Revisited: Learning 3D Shape Parsing beyond Cuboids	CVPR 2019	Paper Code Project
	Im2Struct: Recovering 3D Shape Structure from a Single RGB Image	CVPR 2018	Paper Code
	Learning Shape Abstractions by Assembling Volumetric Primitives	CVPR 2017	Paper Code Project

Analysis

Preview	Title	Publication	Links
	QueryCAD: Grounded Question Answering for CAD Models	arxiv 2025	Paper
	BrepMFR: Enhancing machining feature recognition in B-rep models through deep learning and domain adaptation	CAGD 2024	Paper Code
	CADTalk: An Algorithm and Benchmark for Semantic Commenting of CAD Programs	CVPR 2024	Paper Code Project
	Robust Symmetry Detection via Riemannian Langevin Dynamics	SIGGRAPH Asia 2024	Paper Code Project
	FuS-GCN: Efficient B-rep based graph convolutional networks for 3D-CAD model classification and retrieval	AEI 2023	Paper
	GAT-CADNet: Graph Attention Network for Panoptic Symbol Spotting in CAD Drawings	CVPR 2022	Paper Code
	UV-Net: Learning from Boundary Representations	CVPR 2021	Paper Code
	BRepNet: A Topological Message Passing System for Solid Models	CVPR 2021	Paper Code

Others

Preview	Title	Publication	Links
	CAD-Editor: A Locate-then-Infill Framework with Automated Training Data Synthesis for Text-Based CAD Editing	arXiv 2025	Paper
	CAD-Estate: Large-scale CAD Model Annotation in RGB Videos	ICCV 2023	Paper Code
	ROCA: Robust CAD Model Retrieval and Alignment from a Single Image	CVPR 2022	Paper Code Project
	JoinABLe: Learning Bottom-up Assembly of Parametric CAD Joints	CVPR 2022	Paper Code
	SceneCAD: Predicting Object Alignments and Layouts in RGB-D Scans	ECCV 2020	Paper Code
	CAD-Deform: Deformable Fitting of CAD Models to 3D Scans	ECCV 2020	Paper Code
	End-to-End CAD Model Retrieval and 9DoF Alignment in 3D Scans	ICCV 2019	Paper Project
	Joint Embedding of 3D Scan and CAD Objects	ICCV 2019	Paper Project
	Scan2CAD: Learning CAD Model Alignment in RGB-D Scans	CVPR 2019 (Oral)	Paper Code Project

Dataset

Preview	Title	Publication	Links
	Fusion 360 Gallery: A Dataset and Environment for Programmatic CAD Construction from Human Design Sequences (Assembly Dataset)	CVPR 2022	Paper Code Project
	Fusion 360 Gallery: A Dataset and Environment for Programmatic CAD Construction from Human Design Sequences (Reconstruction Dataset)	SIGGRAPH 2021	Paper Project
	Fusion 360 Gallery: A Dataset and Environment for Programmatic CAD Construction from Human Design Sequences (Segmentation Dataset)	CVPR 2021	Paper Project
	DeepCAD: A Deep Generative Network for Computer-Aided Design Models	ICCV 2021	Paper Code Project
	ABC: A Big CAD Model Dataset For Geometric Deep Learning	CVPR 2019	Paper Project