Top 7 Rust Cad Projects

fornjot

35 1,875 10.0 Rust

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

Project mention: Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-19

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

11 546 9.2 Rust

Truck is a Rust CAD Kernel.

Project mention: Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-19

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

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dslcad

7 453 9.0 Rust

DSLCad is a programming language & interpreter for building 3D models.

Project mention: Better OpenSCAD? | /r/openscad | 2023-05-02

foxtrot

1 207 0.0 Rust

A fast, experimental STEP file viewer (by Formlabs)
cavalier_contours

1 129 6.1 Rust

2D polyline/shape library for offsetting, combining, etc.

Project mention: Cavalier Contours Library for Polyline (with arcs) Algorithms | /r/rust | 2023-07-29

Link to repo: https://github.com/jbuckmccready/cavalier_contours

ruststep

3 108 4.8 Rust

A STEP toolkit for Rust
cdbs-app

1 7 7.7 Rust

An official mirror of the CADBase Platform. (by mnnxp)
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).