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• Start here

  A five-minute introduction, the Concept, Build, Make journey, and your first Thing in ten minutes. Learn how to talk to the agent and read what it does.

  7 articles

• Ideas

  Short explainers of the concepts behind Solid Vibes: Things, Pieces and Connections, the Recipe, parameters and design intent, fits and tolerances, and designing for printing or CNC.

  14 articles

• Playbooks

  End-to-end guides by goal, with exact prompts: replace a broken part, build an enclosure for your PCB, mount anything on a wall, prepare drawings for a CNC shop, and more.

  10 articles

• Prompt cookbook

  Good, better and best prompts side by side, the phrases the agent understands, tips for talking to it, and how to word requests that come with images.

  4 articles

• For CAD pros

  A translation guide from SolidWorks, Fusion and Onshape, how intent maps to the Recipe, selectors and topological naming, script view, STEP workflows and a keyboard-first way of working.

  6 articles

• Troubleshooting

  Find the fix by symptom: prints that fail, fillets that break, parts that do not fit, a misunderstood agent, red steps, voice problems and export issues. Each with causes, fixes and how to avoid it.

  8 articles

• Account and billing

  Your free trial, plans and limits, how private and public Things work, credits and packs, workspaces and sharing, security, privacy, and exporting or deleting your data.

  10 articles

• Beginner30 min5 steps

  Maker in 30 minutes

  Go from zero to a printable Thing. Learn the vocabulary, build a phone stand with the agent, and understand what makes a model print well.

  1. 1What is Solid Vibes? A 5-minute introduction
  2. 2Your first Thing in 10 minutes
  3. 3Talking to the agent: text, voice, images and pointing
  4. + 2 more

  Start the path

• Pro60 min10 steps

  CAD pro switching in 1 hour

  Already fluent in SolidWorks, Fusion or Onshape? Map what you know onto the Recipe, parameters, selectors and history, then set up a keyboard-first workflow.

  1. 1Translation guide for SolidWorks, Fusion and Onshape users
  2. 2The Recipe: your piece's readable history
  3. 3Parameters and formulas
  4. + 7 more

  Start the path

• Intermediate30 min7 steps

  Team admin setup

  Set up plans, credits, sharing, security and privacy for a group. Team workspaces, roles and shared libraries are coming soon, so parts of this path are previews.

  1. 1Plans and limits
  2. 2Credits, explained
  3. 3Private and public Things (the open-source rule)
  4. + 4 more

  Preview the pathPartly coming soon

• Replace a broken part from a photo

  Photograph the broken part next to a coin, let the agent measure it, then print a replacement that is stronger than the original.

  Beginner4 min read

• An enclosure for my PCB (ESP32 example)

  Wrap a real dev board in a printable case with a snug fit, port cutouts, vents, a lid and screw bosses, using the ESP32 as the worked example.

  Intermediate4 min read

• A wall mount for anything (router example)

  Start from a goal ('a wall mount for my router') and let Solid Vibes ask the right questions: size, weight and how it hangs.

  Beginner4 min read

• Split a part to fit your printer

  Cut a too-big model into printable pieces with alignment joints, choose where the seam goes, and assemble it so you can barely see the join.

  Intermediate4 min read

• Turn a napkin sketch into a model

  Photograph a rough hand sketch, tell the agent what the lines mean, and get a clean starting model you can refine.

  Beginner4 min read

• Drawings for a CNC shop

  Prepare a part for machining and generate a dimensioned, toleranced drawing that a shop can quote and cut from, with the STEP file to go with it.

  Pro4 min read