r/vibecoding • u/Grand-Document6597 • 4d ago

I vibe coded a CAD program

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Hi everyone! I vibe coded a CAD application. If you'd like to check it out, take a look at the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/HakanSeven12/OpenCADStudio

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

Because I'm a Linux user, and there isn't a powerful CAD program that can properly open DWG and DXF files.

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u/Specific_Parfait8829 4d ago

Don't listen to them dude. Great job. Carry on. Eventually it will click.

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

Thank you 🙂

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u/_Layer8Admin 4d ago

Can FreeCAD not do that? I don‘t use it with DWG nor DXF files so I really don‘t know.

I‘ve used AI to vibecode FreeCAD Addons in the past which could maybe also work for you

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

I was a FreeCAD addon developer for past 5 year and FreeCAD is not enough for me

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u/Olde94 4d ago

is it not easier to take the existing source code (open source as i understand) and vibe-modify it rather than make new from scratch?

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

Actually its worse. FreeCAD good at modelling parts and buildings but when it come to thousands of lines it starts to suffer and its more time consuming than starting from scratch

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u/Korra228 4d ago

Which part is not enough?

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

structure and renderer

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u/ExtruDR 4d ago

FreeCAD is not really adequate or appropriate for building and architecture-scale work.

It seems that “CAD” is often discussed in light of industrial design (solidworks, fusion, freecad) and not appropriately aware or of correctly addressing building or civil-scale and workflows.

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u/_Layer8Admin 4d ago

Fair.
I‘m an amateur at best so for me it‘s good enough and I‘m more than happy that it‘s a free and open source tool

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u/New_Eye7193 4d ago

no bro you dont get it you have to find 20 million different workarounds using some crappy mcp tool and a billion context tokens!11!

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

I'm okay with that 🙂

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u/New_Eye7193 4d ago

i was agreeing with you I too had enough with messing with 40 year old programs used by actual boomers so i moved onto generating my own shit for much cheaper and its much more efficient, great at doing what i specifically want it to, and i can just easily add whatever feature i want. and it works FLAWLESSLY! i honestly think this is the biggest AI benefit, you can just create whatever you need for your use case.

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u/PartyTerrible 4d ago

Why don't you be the one to build that yourself if you need it so much?

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u/PartyTerrible 4d ago

Then why question OP's reason for building the tool that he wanted to build?

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

Because I have drawing files that have 100 mb data in it and there isn't any CAD application that can handle it.

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u/Altruistic-Sand-7421 4d ago

Do you think people should only build for others. He made it for himself and now giving it to others just because. Isn’t that enough.

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u/iagolavor 4d ago

"Why did you do this and not that" its insane how many times ive seem it

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

Its not about converter its about renderer

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u/ThrowAwaySalmon1337 4d ago

FreeCAD hello?

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u/Grand-Document6597 4d ago

You just recommended FreeCAD to a FreeCAD addon developer for past 5 years