Panda

Imagine. Prompt. Print.

Consumer desktop app that turns natural-language CAD requests into 3D-printable parts on a Bambu Lab printer. Chat for the design, click for the slice, click for the print.

Status

v1 in active development.

Repo layout

• desktop/ — Tauri shell (Rust) + bundled CPython + bundled OrcaSlicer
• viewer/ — Vite + React app (the in-app 3D viewer and chat surface)
• packages/cadjs/ — viewer's CAD mesh/render JS code (UI-framework-agnostic)
• packages/cadpy/ — Python STEP + STL artifact pipeline (CadQuery)
• skills/ — Claude Code skills bundled with the app
  • cadcode — CadQuery-based parametric CAD generation
  • cad-viewer — preview/inspection handoff into the in-app viewer
  • gcode — slice meshes via OrcaSlicer CLI
  • bambu-labs — upload + start prints on a local Bambu printer
  • step-parts — search and download off-the-shelf STEP catalog parts
• scripts/ — Panda dev/build helpers
• docs/ — interface contracts and architecture notes

Prerequisites

• Claude Code installed on PATH: https://claude.ai/install
• Node 20+
• Rust + cargo (for Tauri)
• Python 3.11+ (for cadpy local dev; the shipped app bundles its own CPython)

v1 LLM stance

Panda uses the user's existing Claude Code subscription. v2 will add an optional Panda Cloud proxy for users who want a subscription instead.

License

Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2026 dee.

Some bundled skills (bambu-labs, cad-viewer, gcode, step-parts) are third-party components, each MIT-licensed and Copyright (c) 2026 earthtojake. See NOTICE and the per-skill LICENSE files for attribution.