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Turns out, Astra cannot build manufacturing CAD yet

A benchmark of frontier models on production-grade CAD assembly design found none reached the 60% pass threshold as of September 16, 2026, with GPT 6 (Astra, Codex at max) scoring highest at 74% ± 8% on Task Family B but only 40% ± 15% on Task Family A and 52% ± 5% on Task Family D. Claude Fable 5.1 (Claude Code at max) scored 55% ± 0% on Task Families A and C, 52% ± 22% on B and 36% ± 13% on D, while Gemini 3.8 Flash (Antigravity at high) topped out at 24% ± 3% and Grok 4.6 (Grok Build at xhigh) at 22% ± 8%. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (OpenCode at max) completed only Task Families B, C and D, scoring 20% ± 0%, 18% ± 4% and 30% ± 0% respectively, with dashes marking models whose runs failed to finish.

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Turns out, Astra cannot build manufacturing CAD yet
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Frontier models asked to design production-grade CAD assemblies, graded on geometry, editability and manufacturability. Multiple task families, multiple graded tasks.

Snapshot of September 16, 2026

Task family claude fable 5.1claude code · max deepseek v4 flash vision expopencode · max gemini 3.8 flashantigravity · high gpt 6 astracodex · max grok 4.6grok build · xhigh
Task Family A 55% ± 0% 24% ± 3% 40% ± 15% 19% ± 2%
Task Family B 52% ± 22% 20% ± 0% 17% ± 3% 74% ± 8% 13% ± 5%
Task Family C 55% ± 0% 18% ± 4% 19% ± 5% 39% ± 2% 18% ± 3%
Task Family D 36% ± 13% 30% ± 0% 17% ± 8% 52% ± 5% 22% ± 8%

The families shown are a sample of the benchmark's task families. A cell is the mean of every graded rollout the model completed in that task family, with the sample standard deviation over those rollouts. A dash is a model with no completed rollout in that family: its runs failed to finish. A score of 60% or above is a pass.

The x axis prices those tokens at each provider's published list rate as of September 2026.

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