We built a tool that generates 3D objects with editable, separate parts
Details
- External ID
- 48065983
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- We built a tool that generates 3D objects with editable, separate parts
- Website domain
- nova3d.xyz
- Launched
- May 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5969305331179321
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- generate 3d objects with editable parts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Generating segmentable, part-aware 3D meshes requires novel generative 3D diffusion or representation learning research far beyond standard API plumbing.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires training or adapting multi-view 3D generative diffusion models or implicit neural representations (NeRF/Gaussian Splatting converted to mesh) with semantic part segmentation heads. Structuring generative outputs into semantically distinct, cleanly rigged or editable boundary-representation/mesh hierarchies requires extensive GPU compute clusters and specialized 3D generative modeling research expertise.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: articulation for interactive world building
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 645 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #275 of 646 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 191 days after the earliest competitor.
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- sam3d-part · github · 2026-09-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- small3d · github · 2026-09-24 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL) · hn · 2026-06-01 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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