Can it work from photos? I'm specifically thinking about stuff like this:

https://www.tooltrace.ai/

Wow, that’s a solution to an oddly specific problem I didn’t know existed, but it looks kind of cool

Gridfinity is a bit of a tool organization rabbit hole verging on a cult in 3d printing circles.

CADAM is pretty good at building Gridfinity

Yes it can! You can even use mesh mode which is very strong for this!