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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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

On an unrelated note, if someone tries to rugpull a foss license, but Claude is listed as a committer, can the license be changed? I thought licensing ai code was basically a no-go since copyright has been scrapped for ai output???? I'm sure that won't last.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

oh also the openaec foundation endorsement means literally nothing, they didn't exist three months ago, their website is all vibecoded, and they linkjacked the name of an existing organisation with the same name incorporated in japan.

[–] helix@feddit.org 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

AI slop? You can't build stuff like this by hand in a few months.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 1 day ago

claude is a co-auther, so yeah.

[–] leviathan@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hate AI slop as much as the next guy... but what if this is useful.. been looking for CAD software on Linux for ages -.-

[–] helix@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I do like openscad but I must be using it wrong because it slows to a crawl when trying to array my models

[–] helix@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago

Maybe you can reduce the $fn parameter while you arrange your models and increase it once you're done? That's the most common thing I encountered.

There are some config flags you can set which might improve render times, maybe play around a little.

All in all it will take a long time to create meshes because most of the compute is done on CPU. For me it's very fast once it's done rendering, so I try not to render too often.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the latest builds aren't able to meet your needs I've been thinking about trying blender+ a parametric cad plugin. There are some limitations, but it might be able to do what I need without having a painful to learn UX

But people have been telling me freecads latest releases (maybe the nightlies?) Have gotten much better so I'll probably give it another shot

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Solvespace has been working for me, but I don't do complicated cad. I recommend getting familiar with solvespace if you want to try the cadsketcher blender plugin since it is basically solvespace glued into blender.

[–] eta@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago

I love the simplicity of SolveSpace but I wish they'd have a loft or sweep feature and it would support free form modelling in some way. Then it would be perfect for me.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

1.1 and forward is night and day, yeah.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 day ago

what solver does it use?