Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ttouch 35 days ago
This is the pre-alpha/alpha release of a new CAD that I created. It uses OpenCascade 7.9 under the hood via WASM and a custom sketch solver written in typescript (substantially faster than I thought it would be)

Right now it can do most of the CAD stuff that one expects apart from anything that involves meshes or curved face manipulation - that'll come soon but I want to have a stable base first before I move any further

I hope you like it, I'm eager to hear your thoughts!

1 comments

Will this project eventually be able to completely replace MechE software students need to use for classes or what is the intentions about your software’s scope
the target audience (which I'm a part off too) is hobbyist and small shops. Competing with the big giants I think is impossible (SolidWorks/Fusion/onShape/etc.) but I think that the vast majority of people use only a very small subset of features

Interoperability is of paramount importance and it's probably going to be the best deep dive