IKEA – 3D Guide

(sael.net)

118 points | by punnerud 7 hours ago ago

36 comments

  • dag11 2 hours ago ago

    It's really interesting despite others pointing out that it's a little wrong, that can be fixed.

    But I also almost left immediately because this claudism at the top really hurt to read:

    > Every dowel, cam lock and nail where the page puts it.

    I always feel so manipulated when I read it regurgitating the prompt you gave it in such an advertisey way, like it's trying to assure you it met _every_ word of the prompt, regardless of how it actually did.

  • sigy 3 hours ago ago

    It instructs you to build the shelf wrong. The camlocks go on the bottom of the shelf.

    • reactordev 2 hours ago ago

      Indeed, step 3 has the shelve boards in backwards.

  • LordHeini an hour ago ago

    The Lack table is probanly the esayest piece of Ikea furniture to build. But Claude or whatever llm seems to assume that you can screw the screws in fully by hand. But you just put them in a little and use the leg for the rest. As clearly shown in the instructions.

  • geminiboy 4 hours ago ago

    Built almost the same idea almost a month back. Never posted it

    https://flatpack3d.nithen-ac.chatgpt.site

    • maniac_2000 19 minutes ago ago

      Not to piss on your chips, but the OP version is much more engaging. I think we are going to see taste, steering and preferences become a much more important thing.

    • mnsc 4 hours ago ago

      Double the waste, double the fun!

  • slashdave 26 minutes ago ago

    Hard to find an easier thing to build...

  • aqfamnzc an hour ago ago

    What is the name of this website style that Claude et al loves to build so much? The light text on dark blue background, pill-shapes everywhere, pulsing indicators, etc.?

  • u1hcw9nx an hour ago ago

    AI can't make visualization that work in different browsers yet.

    • atarian 3 minutes ago ago

      We’ve been focused on pelican riding bicycles. IKEA assembly will be in the next round of models.

  • swiftcoder an hour ago ago

    I see Claude is single-handedly bringing back the early-2000's epic "over-bloom" lighting

  • LastMuel 4 hours ago ago

    I hate to speak ill of this nice page, but the cams are on the wrong side of the two bottom shelves. They are clearly displayed in the included manual pages on the left side of the viewport.

  • GTP 2 hours ago ago

    Are there plans to make guides for other pieces of furniture as well?

  • dumpHero2 4 hours ago ago

    Really enjoying all these animation by Ryan Sael. I spent a good part of an hour exploring https://sael.net/river-bend/

  • j_leboulanger 5 hours ago ago

    There are a lot of issues, the bigger one is the fact that the drwan line is not on the self level as the shelf.

  • Lucasoato 5 hours ago ago

    It's incredible. Please, Ikea, hire this guy and generate animated/interactive websites for all of your stuff.

    • extrememacaroni 5 hours ago ago

      Hire... why, it's AI. They can do it themselves.

      • kube-system 4 hours ago ago

        They could have done it themselves before AI.

      • coldtea 5 hours ago ago

        I'm showering you with negativity

    • avgDev an hour ago ago

      It would help if it didn't provide incorrect instructions lol.

  • kazinator 5 hours ago ago

    I might have been one of the first people to recognize the possibility of using a LACK table as an equipment rack. I built a DVD player into one in like 2003, recognizing that a whole stack of 19" pro audio gear could be bolted in there.

    • esskay 4 hours ago ago

      Built one in 2001, there were lots of discussions about it on I think it was the Audiogon forums at the time, a whole thread of a good few hundred people building them. I seem to recall a few had been using them since the 90s as well.

      • bythreads 5 minutes ago ago

        built one in 1836 just before the war started

    • happyopossum 4 hours ago ago

      Folks were doing this in the late 90s on AVSForum..

  • dack 5 hours ago ago

    this is a great idea and i imagine that somebody could generate the entirety of their catalog. it's tempting. would be nice if ikea paid for this service but it's doubtful!

  • amelius an hour ago ago

    If you're going to produce slop then at least show us the prompts.

  • ilovecake1984 2 hours ago ago

    Solution looking for a problem.

  • karansuthar 4 hours ago ago

    really nice. how did you make the models, by hand from the pdf instructions? ikea already has 3d models for a lot of products on their site for the ar view, would be cool if those could be pulled in so it works for any product

    • dmtroyer 4 hours ago ago

      I thought I read somewhere that their entire catalog is rendered and they generally don't do photography at all anymore.

  • mikeaskew4 3 hours ago ago

    Does it make it less complicated?

    • ilovecake1984 2 hours ago ago

      Absolutely not.

      The actual paper instructions are super clear and don’t have all the junk distracting extras.

      The art of communication is simplicity.

  • p2detar 2 hours ago ago

    Great, now do the HASVIK sliding doors mount on a PAX, please. Joke aside, however good a manual is, reality is imperfect. Assembly often requires a bit of improvisation that can't be learned online.

  • Navaie 5 hours ago ago

    This is amazing

  • mschuster91 3 hours ago ago

    The idea is awesome but for fucks sake it would have been half an hour at most to replace the slop copytext.