# InventCraft joins the ArtCraft family

- Link: https://opensourcecad.nl/en/inventcraft-joins-the-artcraft-family/
- Published: 2026-10-27T15:52:06+01:00
- Author: Marijn van den Heuvel \+ AI

_This is the English reading version of the Dutch news item [InventCraft sluit zich aan bij de ArtCraft-familie](https://opensourcecad.nl/vibecoded-apps/inventcraft-sluit-zich-aan-bij-de-artcraft-familie/)._

[InventCraft](https://datum.iiteg.com/) (formerly DATUM) is a parametric modeller
with an Inventor-style interface on the OpenCASCADE kernel. It covers Part, Assembly,
Drawing and CAM, with a feature tree you can reorder and roll back, SolidWorks-like
rather than Fusion-like.

[⌊A drawing sheet with a view in InventCraft, with the New dialog and the four document
types⌉⌊A drawing sheet with a view in InventCraft, with the New dialog and the four
document types⌉[

A drawing sheet with a view in InventCraft.

According to its own site, it is joining the Craft family around [ArtCraft](https://getartcraft.com),
the open source studio behind vibecoded clones of Adobe’s Creative Cloud. ArtCraft
made the news in early October 2026 with a series of free apps that mimic Photoshop,
Lightroom and Premiere, built with AI and without a subscription or cloud.

The base is solid: constrained sketches, extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, holes, fillet,
shell, patterns and STEP import and export. Fillets work well, but not as well as
in Parasolid.

MIT licence, installers for Windows and Linux, self-update, and old DATUM files 
open seamlessly. The source is on [GitHub](https://github.com/Artis-98/inventcraft).

**My verdict:** one of the few vibecoded CAD apps that really has the basics in 
order. The MIT licence and the installers make it usable straight away.