CADBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for AI-Assisted CAD Program Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10873v1
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 17:25:47 GMT
• Title: CADBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for AI-Assisted CAD Program Generation
• Abstract summary: We introduce CADBench, a unified benchmark for multimodal CAD program generation.<n>CADBench contains 18,000 evaluation samples spanning six benchmark families.<n>We benchmark eleven CAD-specialized and general-purpose vision-language systems, generating more than 1.4 million CAD programs.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recovering editable CAD programs from images or 3D observations is central to AI-assisted design, but progress is difficult to measure because existing evaluations are fragmented across datasets, modalities, and metrics. We introduce CADBench, a unified benchmark for multimodal CAD program generation. CADBench contains 18,000 evaluation samples spanning six benchmark families derived from DeepCAD, Fusion 360, ABC, MCB, and Objaverse; five input modalities including clean meshes, noisy meshes, single-view renders, photorealistic renders, and multi-view renders; and six metrics covering geometric fidelity, executability, and program compactness. STEP-based families are stratified by B-rep face count and all families are diversity-sampled to support controlled analysis across complexity and object variation. We benchmark eleven CAD-specialized and general-purpose vision-language systems, generating more than 1.4 million CAD programs. Under idealized inputs, specialized mesh-to-CAD models substantially outperform code-generating VLMs, which remain far from reliable CAD program reconstruction. CADBench further reveals three recurring failure modes: reconstruction quality degrades with geometric complexity, CAD-specialized models can be brittle under modality shift, and model rankings change across metrics. Together, these results position CADBench as a diagnostic testbed for measuring progress in editable 3D reconstruction and multimodal CAD understanding. The benchmark is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/DeCoDELab/CADBench.

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