hannobraun/fornjot
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Early-stage b-rep CAD kernel, written in the Rust programming language. No longer in development.
15 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 14 comments · first 2022-03-09 · latest 2025-07-09
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Have a look at https://github.com/hannobraun/fornjot
comment by trumpeta · 2025-07-09 · in Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering -
…activity since June '24. https://github.com/CADmium-Co/CADmium There's also the Fornjot kernel. https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot
comment by infogulch · 2025-06-10 · in Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application -
…in Rust, and is still a WIP, but I think is turning out nicely. [0] https://www.fornjot.app/ [1] https://github.com/hannobraun/fornjot
comment by hyperbrainer · 2024-09-15 · in OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller -
…node-based, like e.g. Houdini. Completely non-destructive. [1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck [2] https://github.com/hannobraun/fornjot
comment by virtualritz · 2023-10-20 · in Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities -
https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot is another option in the space of early stage CAD kernel development.
comment by nullstyle · 2023-03-08 · in Truck: CAD Kernel in Rust -
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.…
comment by Svenstaro · 2023-02-19 · in CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d -
…very interesting endeavour. There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD [1] https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot [2] https://rhai.rs/
comment by virtualritz · 2023-02-10 · in Show HN: DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models -
…operations, not one that you manually created. I've written down some preliminary thoughts here: https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/issues/101#issuecommen... And let me emphasize, these are just preliminary thoughts. I can see cases…
comment by hannobraun · 2022-03-29 · in Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program -
…Fornjot here. Support for architecture use cases is currently listed on Fornjot's feature wishlist: https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/discussions/146 As is noted there, I lack any expertise in this field, and it's largely unclear what…
comment by hannobraun · 2022-03-28 · in Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program -
…it might have a niche in infrastructure code that CAD models (written in other languages) use. [1] https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/issues/141
comment by hannobraun · 2022-03-28 · in Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program -
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Fornjot – The world needs another CAD programstory by maydemir · 2022-03-28 · 137 comments
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…by that? The plan for Fornjot is to use WebAssembly as the intermediate representation for models: https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/issues/71
comment by hannobraun · 2022-03-10 · in Fornjot: A next-generation Code-CAD application -
…adamsvystun notes, I have to start somewhere. Making models more convenient to define is planned ( https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/issues/72 ), support for other modeling languages is on the wishlist (…
comment by hannobraun · 2022-03-10 · in Fornjot: A next-generation Code-CAD application -
…problems and... is this flat surfaces only? Looks to me like curves are passed to the lowest level: https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/blob/main/src/kernel/g...
comment by ramboldio · 2022-03-09 · in Fornjot: A next-generation Code-CAD application