IKEA – 3D Guide

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dag11

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.

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sigy

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

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socalgal2

I recently built a bunch of flatpack furniture by different companies. The last one, by Yamazen, was clearly the best IMO.

1. Every piece of wood had small round sticker on it with a number eg: ③ that could be reference in the manual. No having to try to figure out if the piece in the manual has the exact hole pattern or whatever

2. All of the screws, dowels, etc were in separate bags, each with a letter on it Ⓚ

3. It had extra supports here an there - maybe some ikea furniture has this too but I haven't seen it.

Ikea was best in that the instructions are designed to be universal, no words.

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aqfamnzc

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.?

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est31

I recently assembled some IKEA furniture and wow it was so fun. It was the same feeling that I had back when I was manually typing out code.

Now I prompt LLMs all day for my job and it is much different. Yes, AI allows me to write way more than in the pre-AI age, but it is certainly fun in a different way, not the kind of IKEA-assembly fun.

LordHeini

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

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

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

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mandog2000

I would prefer to see more constructive criticism and less opinionated comments.

j_leboulanger

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.

ilovecake1984

Solution looking for a problem.

LastMuel

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.

Lucasoato

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

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dumpHero2

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

kazinator

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.

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swiftcoder

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

dack

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!

u1hcw9nx

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

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GTP

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

slashdave

Hard to find an easier thing to build...

karansuthar

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

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mikeaskew4

Does it make it less complicated?

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Navaie

This is amazing

amelius

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

p2detar

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.

mschuster91

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