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Truck: a Rust CAD Kernel

by sbt567 on 6/8/24, 8:27 AM with 4 comments

• by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on 6/9/24, 4:22 AM

  I heard it said that CAD kernels are extremely hard to write.

  Any CAD experts know if Truck is good or not?

• by drbig on 6/9/24, 8:34 AM

  Ok, so this is a single person's (math PhD no less) Rust project that's just the kernel, that also happens to not support Linux. I have a feeling that getting from this to anything useful for mechanical engineering is a long, looong, looooong way away.

  Meanwhile, in my little land of utility-first, Inkscape proves to be the minimal viable solution, and when I need more then qcad does the job. Any suggestions of other tools that happen to support Linux is much welcome.

  I also wish luck and perseverance to the Truck's author. They gonna need it.