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.

      • Helix 🧬@feddit.org
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        17 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.

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          5 hours ago

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

      • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip
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        12 hours ago

        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

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          5 hours ago

          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.