# CadCraft (The one app that will rule them all), but that will take a while

- Link: https://opensourcecad.nl/en/cadcraft-the-one-app-that-will-rule-them-all/
- Published: 2026-10-23T21:43:43+02:00
- Author: Marijn van den Heuvel \+ AI

_This is the English reading version of the Dutch news item [CadCraft (The one app that will rule them all), maar dat duurt nog wel even](https://opensourcecad.nl/vibecoded-apps/cadcraft-the-one-app-that-will-rule-them-all/)._

Eight open-source CAD and BIM apps under one roof, put online within two weeks and
released under Apache-2.0: CadCraft for drafting, BimCraft for BIM, ModelCraft, 
MarkupCraft, TakeoffCraft, CivilCraft, DetailCraft and PartCraft for parametric 
parts. The idea sounds good: one family of tools, in the browser and on the desktop,
with your files on your own disk.

[⌊Start screen of CadCraft Studio 0.6 with the eight apps CadCraft, BimCraft, ModelCraft,
MarkupCraft, TakeoffCraft, CivilCraft, DetailCraft and PartCraft⌉⌊Start screen of
CadCraft Studio 0.6 with the eight apps CadCraft, BimCraft, ModelCraft, MarkupCraft,
TakeoffCraft, CivilCraft, DetailCraft and PartCraft⌉[

CadCraft Studio 0.6: eight apps on one start screen.

The execution leaves much to be desired. In our test the command line of the drafting
app works, but the interface is not finished and it does not work well.

PartCraft, the app for parametric parts, runs on a mesh kernel: [mesh modelling instead of NURBS modelling](https://opensourcecad.nl/en/what-is-the-difference-between-mesh-and-nurbs-modelling/).
Fillets on round edges and reading STEP files therefore do not work. OpenCascade,
which can do both, is out again because its licence imposes obligations.

The licence they did choose, Apache-2.0, is one that lets you do anything with the
code, including building your own commercial product on it. That is exactly what
is waiting: next to the free apps the site lists SuperCad Studio as “A Licensed 
Commercial Product”, with the line “The one app that will rule them all” above it,
and the pricing page says the licences go on sale with the first desktop build. 
Alongside it there is a Team Cloud Plan at 35 dollars per user per month.

**My verdict:** the idea is interesting, one app that can do everything, but FreeCAD
is that too, a little. Fortunately they did decide here to make a separate app for
each kind of CAD work; unfortunately, by doing so much, everything looks just not
finished. The interface is odd and awkward in every app, and with a mesh kernel 
I cannot really take it seriously as a real CAD programme.