A browser-based CAD application that aims to combine the simple and intuitive user interactions of direct 3D modelling software with the powerful features of parametric CAD software.
- Parametric action tree
- Sketches based on constraints
- Formula evaluation
- Bodies can be instanced and nested
- Instances can be individually transformed
- Scenes can be saved and loaded
This is a personal project, and as such was built for the sole purpose of gaining specific practical experience in the areas of linear algebra, analytic geometry, volumetric algorithms, simulations, iterative computation, shaders, WebAssembly, application architecture, memory management, performance optimizations, and many more.
While everything advertised here works correctly under very strict and limited usage conditions, this application is in no way ready for any sort of production usage - it has a huge list of known bugs, performance issues, missing features, and sorely needed improvements.
On the flip side there is a huge list of known bugs, performance issues, missing features, and sorely needed improvements - which outlines a healthy future roadmap for the project.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you still intend to use this app in any manner other than playing around or testing, bear in mind the following:
- save files produced by an app with a different version than the one opening them will most certainly be incompatible - stick to the same version until save file versioning and migrations are implemented
- features you like will disappear without warning
- the app will crash and you will lose any unsaved work
- the app will corrupt your saved data and you will lose that too
Due to the secure context requirements of using localStorage, the application cannot be opened directly using the file:// protocol, but rather must be hosted on a webserver
To view the application, a modern browser that supports ES6 and WebGL2 is required.
To access it at http://localhost:8080 in the browser either Docker or NodeJS can be used out of the box:
# Build the image (required once)
sudo docker build -t sketchy .
# Run
sudo docker run -p 8080:80 -d sketchy# Run
npx http-server . -p 8080 -c-1 -s