Plasticity – CAD for artists, 1.0 release(plasticity.xyz)

7 pointsby multimodal3 anni fa7 comments

Plasticity – CAD for artists, 1.0 release

https://www.plasticity.xyz/

7 comments

I've been following the development of Nick Kallen's Plasticity via his YouTube channel [0] for some time now, and I've been using it throughout its public beta. The repo is here [1].

As a longtime Blender (with HOps + Boxcutter) user, I've found Plasticity to be a wonderful experience that emphasizes focus on design and form rather than managing topology. It feels precise without the 'clunkiness' I've encountered with traditional CAD software.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@nickkallen1/videos

[1] https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity

WillAdams3 anni fa

This was mentioned here a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30695360

Seems promising to me, and is more affordable than many of the other commercial options, with a more reasonable licensing agreement AFAICT.

adastra223 anni fa

Was hoping we'd finally have a good open source CAD application, but no :(

I guess using parasolid makes that a difficult proposition.

samstave3 anni fa

Siemens Solid Edge much?

https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/store/en-us/trial/sol...

adastra223 anni fa

“Free trial” doesn’t sound like open source?

samstave3 anni fa

I havent had to pay for anything, and the app is amazing...

adastra223 anni fa

Ok open source isn't about being free. There's tons of projects I would like to do that need a traditional CAD application as a starting point. They may not even be that complicated, except for the millions of lines of code that are needed to replicate the functionality of a modern CAD app.

There is FreeCAD and a handful of others, but these apps are either buggy as hell, or about 20 years out of date in terms of user experience. BRL-CAD is perhaps the one exception, but it's a bit esoteric.

EDIT: Wait, wat? Top comment links to the GitHub repo. Looks like this app is LGPL licensed! Except for the geometry kernel, but I've got ideas for replacing that anyway.