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 天前

    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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      16 天前

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

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        16 天前

        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.