truck VS ruststep

Compare truck vs ruststep and see what are their differences.

truck

Truck is a Rust CAD Kernel. (by ricosjp)

ruststep

A STEP toolkit for Rust (by ricosjp)
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truck ruststep
11 3
528 105
5.5% 2.9%
9.2 4.8
29 days ago 4 months ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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truck

Posts with mentions or reviews of truck. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.
  • Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
    I agree 100%.

    Truck[1] and Fornjot[2] are recent attempts in the Rust space, both are WIP.

    But both seem to be going the traditional way. I.e. B-Rep that can be converted to (trimmed) NURBS.

    I think if one wanted to incorporate the last 50 years of computer science, particularly computer graphics, one needed to broaden the feature set considerably.

    You need support for precision subdivision surface modeling with variable radius creases (either via reverse subdivision where you make sure the limit surface pass through given constraints or using an interpolating subivision scheme that but has the same perks as e.g. Catmull-Clark).

    Then you need to have SDF modeling ofc.

    Possibly point based representations. If only as inputs.

    And traditional B-Rep.

    Finally, the kernel should be able to go back and forth lossless between these representations wherever possible.

    And everything must be node-based, like e.g. Houdini. Completely non-destructive.

    [1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck

    [2] https://github.com/hannobraun/fornjot

  • Truck: CAD Kernel in Rust
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2023
    I think you confuse the book/tutorial with the documentation on docs.rs.

    My impression is that the former is very much a work in progress. I never looked at it until now.

    The latter (and the examples in the resp. crates) is what you want to look at to see the kernel being used. E.g. https://github.com/ricosjp/truck/blob/master/truck-modeling/...

    The main README has links to all the documentation of the crates.

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2023
  • CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2023
    I think some interesting developments are made in that sector in the form of https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot and https://github.com/ricosjp/truck. Let's see whether one of those will actually get anywhere near a usable level. Fornjot in particular is shaping up really well.
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2023
    There are two Rust projects working on parametric kernels I'm aware of.

    The first one, Truck[1] seems to have a company behind it, Ricos Ltd, that look like they to know what they're doing[2]. The tweet shows their product using functionality from Truck (the frontend is not OSS AFAIK).

    Fornjot is an ambitious project IMHO. Their kernel is in a separate crate[3].

    As for OSS code that could be a good base to either use (or port to something like Rust) for someone to write their own kernel is Ayam [4], the oldest OSS 3D NURBS modeler that is still being developed.

    [1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck

    [2] https://twitter.com/RICOS_ltd/status/1550390552482693120

    [3] https://crates.io/crates/fj-kernel

    [4] https://ayam.sourceforge.net/

  • Fornjot (code-first CAD in Rust) - Weekly Dev Log - 2022-W21
    2 projects | /r/rust | 30 May 2022
    I've been following your project with interest and was wondering if you were familiar with Truck. Its another project implementing a CAD kernel in Rust.
  • Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2022
    I will definitely keep reading and learning, as well as gaining practical implementation experience. We'll have to see how that goes, and what the solution will end up being.

    > Another direction you could take is to define just the API, and use the opencascade kernel (like FreeCAD) until the rest of your code is ready.

    A CAD kernel is the central dependency for any CAD program, and I feel that it would be wrong to just use one and accept its limitations. I need to be able to take ownership, to work on it directly. OpenCASCADE is a huge pile of C++ code, which is the opposite of all that. (Not saying it's wrong to use in general, just that I'm the wrong guy to work on a huge pile of C++ code.)

    I've considered using Truck[1], but decided not to do that for now. I really want to see what I can come up with. If that doesn't work out, at least I'll be in a much better decision to decide what other option would be best.

    [1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck

    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2022
    This one seems furthest along:

    https://github.com/ricosjp/truck

    And it has a long way to go. They are tackling some hard problems like dealing with STEP format already.

    There is also a geometric constraint solver written in Rust. He's moved to (I think gitlab) but here's the old repo:

  • Fornjot: A next-generation Code-CAD application
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2022
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (3/2022)!
    5 projects | /r/rust | 18 Jan 2022
    For a specific example: I am interested in working with 3D objects using Rust (maybe this is too ambitious for a newbie!) so I found a CAD kernel crate called truck which seems to be crate built of smaller crates and implementations of other libraries. How would you go about finding the most relevant info and where to start? Should I start by understanding all the smaller parts such as the gui/gpu rendering modules, or is that irrelevant and I can focus on figuring out the top level?

ruststep

Posts with mentions or reviews of ruststep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing truck and ruststep you can also consider the following projects:

gluon - A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust.

fornjot - Early-stage b-rep CAD kernel, written in the Rust programming language.

CascadeStudio - A Full Live-Scripted CAD Kernel in the Browser

build123d - A python CAD programming library

arcade - A rust CAD engine (NURBS kernel)

arcs

Kind - A next-gen functional language [Moved to: https://github.com/Kindelia/Kind2]

dyon - A rusty dynamically typed scripting language

opencascade.js - Port of the OpenCascade CAD library to JavaScript and WebAssembly via Emscripten.

Fornjot - The world needs another CAD program.

arcs - A Rust CAD System

serde - Serialization framework for Rust