Neat project, and your experience mirrors mine when writing hobby projects.

About the project itself, do you plan to open source if eventually? LLM discussion aside, I've long been frustrated by the lack of a good free desktop 3D CAD software.

Thanks man!

I would love to build this eventually to a real product so am not currently considering open sourcing it.

I can give you a free foreverlicense if you would like to be an alpha tester though :) - but am considering in any case for the eventual non-commercial licenses to be affordable&forever.

IMHO what the world needs is a good textbook on how to build CAD software. Mäntylä’s ”Solid modeling” is almost 40 years old. CAD itself is pushing 60-70 years.

The highly non-trivial parts in my app are open source software anyways (you can check the attribution file) and what this contributes is just a specific, opinionated way of how a program like this should work in 2020’s.

What I _would_ like to eventually contribute is a textbook in how to build something like this - and after that re-implementation would be a matter of some investment to LLM inference, testing, and end-user empathy. But that would have to wait either for my financial independence, AI-communism or my retirement :)