GOPR-CAD: Graph-of-Operations Progressive Reasoning for CAD Generation

Yitian Pang, Yifan Li, Xiaowei Yue, Li Zheng

Generating accurate CAD models requires substantial engineering expertise and careful control of geometry, topology, and mechanical constraints. Text-to-CAD aims to simplify this process, but current LLM-based methods often generate CAD programs directly. Language models remain unreliable when producing long code while coordinating coupled geometric, topological, and dimensional constraints. Consequently, executable programs may still produce structurally incorrect models, which execution rate and rendered appearance may fail to reveal. To address these limitations, we propose GOPR-CAD, an agentic Text-to-CAD pipeline based on Graph-of-Operations Progressive Reasoning. A language model acts as a decision agent over encapsulated CAD operations and progressively constructs an executable operation graph, which a deterministic compiler converts into the final CAD model. This separation requires no additional training and supports different language models. To evaluate structural fidelity, we construct MHCAD, a benchmark of 300 standard mechanical part requirements derived from Machinery's Handbook. Their explicit structures enable reference-free STEP/B-rep evaluation. GOPR-CAD…