This site is written in Dutch. This page is the English entrance to it: the fixed pages of opensourcecad.nl, so you can read who I am, what I do and how to reach me without switching through a translator.
- About: who I am and how I work
- Mechanical & Product Design: my main field, with the tools I work in
- CAD kernels: how the engines under CAD work, and where they stop
- BIM & Architecture: kept for reference, not my field
- Electronics & PCB: kept for reference, not my field
- Tests & Benchmarks: how I test tools before I advise on them
- Contact: mail, phone and LinkedIn
- Privacy statement
News in English
- ScanRuler: browser-based 3D metrology for your scans
- MitCAD is not finished yet and already has a very impressive parts library!
- Testing open source CAD kernels
- Continue your FreeCAD design in Mitcad
- InventCraft joins the ArtCraft family
- Autodesk pulls the plug on Fusion on Intel-based Macs
- Why FreeCAD still feels like beta after 10 years, and does it still have a right to exist? — a structural analysis
- CADRS adds CAM: milling, simulating and posting G-code
- BIMCraft can read Revit files, but not everything comes through
- Why open-source CAD rarely looks like the commercial packages
- Five new CAD projects in one video, and what already works
- IngeTrazo: a free alternative to SketchUp
- What is the difference between mesh modelling and NURBS modelling?
- CadCraft (The one app that will rule them all), but that will take a while
- Mitcad reads Fusion and FreeCAD files with their timeline
- SolidCraft 0.19.0: fourteen themes, and parameters you type yourself
- The FreeCAD plague: when nobody listens, I build my own
- What is a fork, and what is a pull request?
- SolidCraft tackles slow fillets and booleans with Solidcore
- What is SMLib, and how does it relate to OCCT?
- Solidcore vs OCCT: a young promise next to a thirty-year-old kernel
- CADRS considers another kernel: from OpenCASCADE to Solidcore
- SolidCraft: a new open-source Fusion alternative, built largely by AI in a short time
Every news item on this site has an English reading version, listed above in the same order as the Dutch front page. The articles are written in Dutch first. If there is one you want that is not here, mail me and I will send it over.