| ▲ | Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables(mattkeeter.com) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 36 points by pmkary a day ago | 10 comments | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mkeeter an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
This could use a (2015) label :) I've been tapering off maintenance since 2016 or so, but it has a more actively-maintained fork over at https://github.com/nsfm/stibium (albeit with heavy LLM assistance, because it's 2026!) YMMV – I haven't used it or closely inspected the changes, but have corresponded with the author, who seems genuinely dedicated in the success of the project. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | WillAdams an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
This probably merits noting that the whole Code CAD thing is getting pushed very hard lately with many new AI-driven projects. I will note the following projects which have made recent advancements: - OpenSCAD --- the hopefully final Release Candidate for the long-awaited update is now available: https://openscad.org/downloads.html#rc - PythonSCAD --- for folks who want variables which change and so forth: https://www.pythonscad.org/ - CADquery --- https://cadquery.github.io/ - Build123D --- https://github.com/gumyr/build123d Longer list/discussion at: https://github.com/Irev-Dev/curated-code-cad Also, a more recent project by Matt Keeter, Halfspace was announced recently but didn't get much discussion here: | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | badlibrarian an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
To anyone else who had to parse early KiCad file formats, where the parentheses and quoting on S-expressions was more of a guideline than a rule, I salute you. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | IshKebab an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
I was all ready to say how useless code-based CAD usually is (like OpenSCAD), but this actually looks pretty sick. If you could add support for SolveSpace's 2D sketcher, and also bevels/fillets, then this might actually be useful. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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