Hacker News with Generative AI: CAD

Zoo Design Studio v1: A New Stack for Mechanical CAD (zoo.dev)
Every generation or so, someone rebuilds the geometric foundation of mechanical CAD (MCAD). It happened in 1988 with Parasolid2, in 1989 with ACIS3, and, until today, the last major commercial geometry engine to reach mainstream adoption was well over a decade ago. Most modern CAD still runs on Siemens’ Parasolid from the late ’80s4.

Software, CAD, Mechanical Engineering, Design

9 points by jessfraz 2 days ago | 0 comments

Zoo CAD Engine Overview (zoo.dev)
A CAD engine (often called a CAD kernel) is responsible for representing the model geometry such as B-Rep, NURBS, CSG etc., and for executing the common operations performed by CAD software such as extrusion, revolution, lofting, etc. CAD engines come in many different flavors, depending mostly on the application domain.

CAD, Software, 3D Modeling

42 points by jessfraz 2 days ago | 5 comments

A 3D mouse with 3D printed flexures and PCB coils (hackaday.com)
3D mice with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) motion are highly valued by professional CAD users. However, the entry-level versions typically cost upwards of $150 and are produced by a single manufacturer. [Colton Baldridge] has created the OS3M Mouse — an open source alternative using PCB coils and 3D printed flexures.

3D Printing, CAD, Robotics, Hardware

16 points by fanf2 41 days ago | 2 comments

Csgrs: Rusty OpenSCAD-like CAD kernel v0.16.0 major release (crates.io)

CAD, Software, Open Source, New Releases

6 points by timschmidt 72 days ago | 1 comments

CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer (fangpenlin.com)
Like many of you nerds, a nerd like me when I was a little kid, I enjoyed tearing down stuff, putting it back together, and ensuring it worked.

3D Printing, CAD, Software Engineering

109 points by bo0tzz 162 days ago | 103 comments

FreeCAD 1.0.0 Released (github.com/freecad)

New Releases, Software, CAD

96 points by regularfry 185 days ago | 5 comments

FreeCAD 1.0 (freecad.org)

New Releases, Software, CAD, 3D Modeling

28 points by MakisH 185 days ago | 4 comments

FreeCAD 1.0 Released (freecad.org)
FreeCAD 1.0 was released on 18 November 2024, get it from the Download page. This page lists all new features and changes.

New Releases, Software, CAD, Open Source

13 points by lightbulbjim 185 days ago | 2 comments

Powerful, Open-Source, Programmatic CAD (implicitcad.org)
ImplicitCAD is a project dedicated to using the power of math and computer science to get stupid design problems out of the way of the 3D printing revolution.

3D Printing, Open Source, Computer Science, CAD

147 points by omeid2 251 days ago | 30 comments

OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
OpenSCAD is software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.

3D Printing, Software, Programming, CAD

475 points by LorenDB 251 days ago | 187 comments

The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out (freecad.org)
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here.

New Releases, Software, CAD, Open Source

379 points by jstanley 254 days ago | 207 comments

ManifoldCAD (manifoldcad.org)
ManifoldCAD

Software, CAD, Design Tools

8 points by kaonwarb 255 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD (hestus.co)

AI, CAD, Software, Design

224 points by kevinsane 262 days ago | 87 comments

Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git (2021) (lambda.cx)

Version Control, CAD, Git

85 points by todsacerdoti 339 days ago | 66 comments

Truck: a Rust CAD Kernel (github.com/ricosjp)