Awesome CAD

A curated list of awesome Computer-Aided Design (CAD) papers, inspired by awesome-computer-vision.

Survey

Papers	Venue	Links
Geometric Deep Learning for Computer-Aided Design: A Survey	arXiv 2025
Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design: A Survey	arXiv 2025	[project]

Datasets

Papers	Venue	Links
CADOps-Net: Jointly Learning CAD Operation Types and Steps from Boundary-Representations	3DV 2022	[project]
Fusion 360 Gallery: A Dataset and Environment for Programmatic CAD Construction from Human Design Sequences	SIGGRAPH 2021	[project]
AutoMate: A Dataset and Learning Approach for Automatic Mating of CAD Assemblies	SIGGRAPH Asia 2021	[project]
PVDeconv: Point-voxel deconvolution for autoencoding cad construction in 3D	ICIP 2020	[project]
SketchGraphs: A Large-Scale Dataset for Modeling Relational Geometry in Computer-Aided Design	ICML Workshop 2020	[project]
A Large-scale Annotated Mechanical Components Benchmark for Classification and Retrieval Tasks with Deep Neural Networks (MCB)	ECCV 2020	[project]
ABC: A Big CAD Model Dataset For Geometric Deep Learning	CVPR 2019	[project]

CAD Reconstruction

Papers	Venue	Links
BRep Boundary and Junction Detection for CAD Reverse Engineering	ICMI 2024	[project] [code]
CAD-GPT: Synthesising CAD Construction Sequence with Spatial Reasoning-Enhanced Multimodal LLMs	arXiv 2025
CAD-Recode: Reverse Engineering CAD Code from Point Clouds	arXiv 2025
From 2D CAD Drawings to 3D Parametric Models: A Vision-Language Approach	AAAI 2025	[project]
PlankAssembly: Robust 3D Reconstruction from Three Orthographic Views with Learnt Shape Programs	ICCV 2023	[project] [code]
SolidGen: An Autoregressive Model for Direct B-rep Synthesis	TMLR 2023
Reconstructing Editable Prismatic CAD from Rounded Voxel Models	SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
ComplexGen: CAD Reconstruction by B-Rep Chain Complex Generation	SIGGRAPH 2022	[project] [code]
Point2Cyl: Reverse Engineering 3D Objects from Point Clouds to Extrusion Cylinders	CVPR 2022	[project] [code]
PC2WF: 3D Wireframe Reconstruction from Raw Point Clouds	ICLR 2021	[code]
PIE-NET: Parametric Inference of Point Cloud Edges	NeurIPS 2020	[code]
ParSeNet: A Parametric Surface Fitting Network for 3D Point Clouds	ECCV 2020	[project] [code]
Supervised Fitting of Geometric Primitives to 3D Point Clouds	CVPR 2019	[code]

CAD Generation

Papers	Venue	Links
BrepDiff: Single-stage B-rep Diffusion Model	SIGGRAPH 2025	[project] [code]
HoLa: B-Rep Generation using a Holistic Latent Representation	SIGGRAPH 2025	[project]
Text-to-CadQuery: A New Paradigm for CAD Generation with Scalable Large Model Capabilities	arXiv 2025	[code]
FlexCAD: Unified and Versatile Controllable CAD Generation with Fine-tuned Large Language Models	ICLR 2025
Don’t Mesh with Me: Generating Constructive Solid Geometry Instead of Meshes by Fine-Tuning a Code-Generation LLM	arXiv 2024
Text2CAD: Text to 3D CAD Generation via Technical Drawings	NeurIPS 2024	[project]
CadVLM: Bridging Language and Vision in the Generation of Parametric CAD Sketches	NeurIPS Workshop 2024
BrepGen: A B-rep Generative Diffusion Model with Structured Latent Geometry	SIGGRAPH 2024	[code]
3DALL-E: Integrating Text-to-Image AI in 3D Design Workflows	arXiv 2022
Free2CAD: Parsing Freehand Drawings into CAD Commands	SIGGRAPH 2022	[project] [code]
SkexGen: Autoregressive Generation of CAD Construction Sequences with Disentangled Codebooks	ICML 2022	[project] [code]
Vitruvion: A Generative Model of Parametric CAD Sketches	ICLR 2022	[project] [code]
JoinABLe: Learning Bottom-up Assembly of Parametric CAD Joints	CVPR 2022	[code]
SketchGen: Generating Constrained CAD Sketches	NeurIPS 2021
Computer-Aided Design as Language	NeurIPS 2021	[data]
DeepCAD: A Deep Generative Network for Computer-Aided Design Models	ICCV 2021	[project] [code]
Engineering Sketch Generation for Computer-Aided Design	CVPR Workshop 2021
Sketch2CAD: Sequential CAD Modeling by Sketching in Context	SIGGRAPH Asia 2020	[project] [code]
PolyGen: An Autoregressive Generative Model of 3D Meshes	ICML 2020	[code]

CAD Representation

Papers	Venue	Links
DualCSG: Learning Dual CSG Trees for General and Compact CAD Modeling	arXiv 2023
Discovering Design Concepts for CAD Sketches	NeurIPS 2022	[code]
Self-Supervised Representation Learning for CAD	CVPR 2023
CADOps-Net: Jointly Learning CAD Operation Types and Steps from Boundary-Representations	3DV 2022
CSG-Stump: A Learning Friendly CSG-Like Representation for Interpretable Shape Parsing	ICCV 2021	[code]
UV-Net: Learning from Boundary Representations	CVPR 2021	[code]
BRepNet: A Topological Message Passing System for Solid Models	CVPR 2021	[code]
CSGNet: Neural Shape Parser for Constructive Solid Geometry	CVPR 2018	[code]

CAD Recognition

Papers	Venue	Links
ArchCAD-400K: An Open Large-Scale Architectural CAD Dataset and New Baseline for Panoptic Symbol Spotting	arXiv 2025
CADSpotting: Robust Panoptic Symbol Spotting on Large-Scale CAD Drawings	arXiv 2024
Symbol as Points: Panoptic Symbol Spotting via Point-based Representation	ICLR 2024	[code]
VectorFloorSeg: Two-Stream Graph Attention Network for Vectorized Roughcast Floorplan Segmentation	CVPR 2023	[code]
CADTransformer: Panoptic Symbol Spotting Transformer for CAD Drawings	CVPR 2022	[code]
GAT-CADNet: Graph Attention Network for Panoptic Symbol Spotting in CAD Drawings	CVPR 2022
FloorPlanCAD: A Large-Scale CAD Drawing Dataset for Panoptic Symbol Spotting	ICCV 2021	[project]