cadcraft

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Why CADCraft

• The workflow you know. Type L, click two points, type @5<45, press Enter. The command line, prompts with clickable [Keywords], AutoComplete, object snaps, polar tracking, ortho, direct distance entry, window and crossing selection, grips, and right-click-to-repeat behave the way decades of drafting habit expect.
• Open files. DXF is read and written natively (ASCII and binary, R12 through 2018), and DWG files (R13 through 2018) open and save through the open-source acadrust library. Export to SVG and PNG today.
• Fast and native. Pure Rust and egui, no Electron, no web view. One binary on macOS (universal), Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, plus a WebAssembly build for the browser.
• Built for agents. Every menu item, tool and prompt is a command. Agents can type at the command line exactly like a person, call any command with JSON, inspect the drawing to verify their work, and render it — over MCP, a JSON control channel, or the CLI.
• Free. MIT OR Apache-2.0, with no account and no subscription.

What works today

CADCraft is in early, fast development. Honest status (see ROADMAP.md for parity numbers):

Area	Status
Drawing area	Model space with adaptive grid, axes, pan/zoom (wheel, middle-drag, pinch), crosshair cursor with pickbox, UCS icon, ViewCube, viewport label
Command line	Prompts with keywords, history, AutoComplete, aliases, @dx,dy, @d<a, #x,y, direct distance entry, Enter/space/right-click to repeat, transparent commands, .scr-style scripts
Draw	LINE, PLINE (arcs, widths), CIRCLE (center/radius/diameter, 2P, 3P), ARC, RECTANG (fillet/chamfer), POLYGON, ELLIPSE (+arcs), SPLINE, POINT, XLINE, RAY, DONUT, TEXT, MTEXT
Modify	ERASE, MOVE, COPY, ROTATE, SCALE, MIRROR, STRETCH, OFFSET, TRIM, EXTEND, FILLET, CHAMFER, BREAK, JOIN, EXPLODE, rectangular/polar ARRAY, draw order, OVERKILL
Precision	Object snaps (endpoint, midpoint, center, geometric center, node, quadrant, intersection, insertion, perpendicular, tangent, nearest; deferred tangent/perpendicular for the first point of a line, e.g. belt lines tangent to two circles), polar tracking, ortho, grid snap
Layers & properties	Layers palette and Layer Properties Manager (on/off, freeze, lock, plot, colour, linetype), layer tools (isolate, freeze, off, lock, match, previous), Properties palette with per-object editing, linetypes, lineweights, colour index and true colour
Annotation	All DIM* commands with full DIMSTYLE variables, overrides and every arrowhead, associative dimensions that follow geometry, MLEADER, TABLE, TrueType fonts (.ttf, .otf, .ttc collections), MTEXT formatting codes (fonts, heights, colours, stacked fractions), our own single-stroke drafting font
Hatch & blocks	Pick-point hatch boundaries with islands, pattern, solid and gradient fills from our own pattern library, BLOCK/INSERT, attributes and nested blocks
Files	DXF read (R12–2018, ASCII and binary) and write (R2000), including dimension styles, associativity, tables and constraints; DWG read (via the acadrust library) and write (R2000); PDF plotting, SVG and PNG export. Entities CADCraft doesn't model yet are not kept on save: see file-format parity
Layouts & plotting	Paper-space layouts, viewports (scale, lock, per-viewport layer freeze), MSPACE/PSPACE through viewports, page setups, PLOT and EXPORTPDF
Parametric	Geometric and dimensional constraints, AUTOCONSTRAIN, PARAMETERS with expressions, conflict detection; constraints re-solve after every edit

Quick start

CADCraft requires Rust 1.95 or later.

git clone https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft
cd cadcraft
cargo run --release -p cadcraft -- --sample       # opens the sample drawing

Then try typing at the command line:

line 0,0 @10,0 @0,5 c          a closed triangle
circle 5,2 1                    a circle
offset 0.25                     then pick the circle and a side
zoom e                          zoom to extents

The web build: cd apps/cadcraft-web && trunk serve (needs trunk).

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