Open CAD Studio: 2D + 3D CAD-applicatie in Rust met GPU-versnelde rendering. Native DWG/DXF lezen en schrijven, paper space, ACIS solids — een open source community-project door Hakan Seven, herkend door de OpenAEC Foundation.

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.orgEnglish
      14·
      1 day 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.

      • mvirts@lemmy.world
        3·
        20 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

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          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 (he/him <3)@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 day 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

      • mvirts@lemmy.world
        3·
        20 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.

        • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          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.