FluidCAD a JavaScript (Node.js) parametric design tool

CAD & CAM Tool Chain
1

Announced on Hackernews:

and Reddit:

it looks pretty interesting:

Uses OpenCascade, so has niceties such as STEP import.

2

Eventually managed to get it running in VS Code:

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(pasted in one of the tutorials, not my design)

Makes me wish that OpenSCAD could switch geometry kernels…

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It did! To manifold.

If it used OCC we’d have some substantial tradeoffs…

4

Yeah, I meant of course to one which supported NURBS and so forth…

That said, I have a pretty good work-around now where I’m writing out DXFs w/ arcs from my tool — now I just need to find a suitable CAM tool which given an element in a DXF will accept/make use of Z-axis variations.

5

Have you compared to CascadeStudio?

6

That’s a valid point.

A comparison would be very interesting — will have to try to find the time to try CascadeStudio as well.

7

Looking more closely at the screenshot, it looks more like “CADQuery in JavaScript”?

8

That is a fair description, and makes one wonder what other possible variations and combinations there are.

9

Given the widespread use of LLMs, I guess that over the next few years we are likely to find out. :grin: