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https://github.com/Fluid-CAD/FluidCAD

https://github.com/Fluid-CAD/FluidCAD

https://fluidcad.io

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# Comments: 33

Regarding the picking; that's exactly the region picking feature in this screenshot: https://fluidcad.io/img/region-extrude.gif

When the user click on a region we insert a 2D point, then the extrude feature will find the nearest face. I have experimented with adding this picking logic to selections too select().pick() which will probably be merged in future releases.

The interactive region extrude is there for when you want fast modeling/prototyping.

Then I decided against this idea because it results in too much typing + the constraint solver implementation is not trivial and there is not much web based open source solvers. I went with a mixed approach instead between declarative and imperative. https://fluidcad.io/docs/guides/sketching/constrained-geomet...

The user can create planes with plane() command e.g plane("xy") or plane("xy", { offset: 10 }); but I have added some shortcuts for common planes (https://fluidcad.io/docs/guides/sketching/introduction#sketc...)

you can also sketch on faces sketch(extrusion.endFace(), ...) which will extract the plane from face and put the starting point on the center for convinience.

Assemblies will come but not anytime soon. I did some research and tests and it is going to be a challenge. You can still add multiple parts in one scene but no actual joints implementation.

There is a guide section and one tutorial: https://fluidcad.io/docs/guides/

This week will be all for documentation.

It is only a subset of features focused on solid modeling. Surface modeling will come in future versions

This is a CAD by code project I have been working on on my free time for more than year now.

I built it with 3 goals in mind:

- It should be familiar to CAD designers who have used other programs. Same workflow, same terminology.

- Reduce the mental effort required to create models as much as possible. This is achieved by:

    - Provide live rendering and visual guidance as you type.
    - Allow the user to reference existing edges/faces on the scene instead of having to calculate everything.
    - Provide interactive mouse helpers for features that are hard to write by code: Only 3 interactive modes for now: Edge trimming, Sketch region extrude, Bezier curve drawing.
    - Implicit coding whenever possible: e.g: There are sensible defaults for most parameters. The program will automatically fuse intersecting objects together so you do not have to worry about what object needs to be fused with what.

I think I have achieved these goals to a good extent. The program is still in early stages and there are many features I want to add, rewrite but I think it is already usable for simple models.

Update to add more details: This is based on Opencascade.js WASM binding. So you get all the good things that come with any brep kernel. Fillets, chamfers, step import and export...

The scene is webview but the editing is in your local file. You use your own editor and the environment you are familiar with.

One important feature that I think make this stand out among other code based cad software is the ability to transform features not just shapes. More here: https://fluidcad.io/docs/guides/patterns You can see it in action in the lantern example: https://fluidcad.io/docs/tutorials/lantern

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The code is based on js and opencascade with a feature rich vscode extension.

I'll post it here on release day.