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A full-featured 2D + 3D CAD application built in Rust with GPU-accelerated rendering. Native DWG & DXF read and write, paper space, ACIS solids, dimensions, layouts. An open source community project by Hakan Seven, recognized and promoted by the OpenAEC Foundation.

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[–] helix@feddit.org 11 points 6 hours ago

been looking for CAD software on Linux for ages

FreeCAD has become pretty good lately. If you have tested it before v1.1 (March 2026) you should certainly give it a go again.

If you're fine with programming your CAD instead of visually composing it, OpenSCAD is fine as well.