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Each demo leans on a different jscad-mcp feature — slice, highlight, label_parts, parameter sweeps — and each was painful to design without a visual feedback loop. Click any card for the walkthrough; the full source lives on GitHub.

Cycloidal drive reducer
named parts + highlight

Cycloidal drive reducer

Per-part colored cycloidal reducer with named parts + highlight.

Cutaway 4-stroke engine
slice + parameter sweep

Cutaway 4-stroke engine

Single-cylinder 4-stroke cutaway with cross-sections and a 36-frame crank-angle sweep.

Gyroid lattice cube
slice (TPMS section)

Gyroid lattice cube

Marching-cubes triply-periodic minimal surface, sliced to reveal the iconic cross-section.

Lofted vase
extrudeFromSlices loft

Lofted vase

`extrudeFromSlices` morphing a circular cross-section through four radius control points.

Voronoi-pattern panel
2D pattern → extrude

Voronoi-pattern panel

Seeded random sites → half-plane-intersection cells → extrude + subtract holes.

Threaded bolt + nut
helical sweep + slice engagement

Threaded bolt + nut

`extrudeHelical` triangular thread profile on both bolt and nut, with slice exposing engagement.

Spur gear pair
meshing geometry

Spur gear pair

Cosine-tooth gears at correct center distance, second gear phased so its valley meshes with the first gear’s peak.

Snap-fit parametric box
tolerance-driven plastic-part design

Snap-fit parametric box

Tolerance-driven snap features: wedges on the box wall, dimples in the lid skirt.

Sliding caliper jaws
animated mechanism (parameter sweep)

Sliding caliper jaws

Stylized vernier caliper with `jawExtension` swept 5 → 110 mm over 36 frames.

Heatsink fin array
parametric array + slice

Heatsink fin array

Parametric base + N parallel fins. Slice exposes the inter-fin gap; push fin count too high and the gap collapses.

HO-scale water tower
facet-as-stave + bracing tessellation

HO-scale water tower

Trackside wooden tank on a braced timber frame, 1:87 scale. Low-segment cylinder = staves for free.

HO-scale Pratt truss bridge
Pratt diagonal rule + portal bracing

HO-scale Pratt truss bridge

Through-truss railroad bridge with the Pratt diagonal rule and portal bracing.

Image → lithophane
novel input: photo as geometry

Image → lithophane

Photo → grayscale heightmap → 3D-printable translucent panel.

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