CADBase
Open-source hub & 3D viewer for engineers and makers
Details
- External ID
- 1019004
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CADBase
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Design Tools, Open Source, Tech
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Description
Open-source hub designed as a neutral bridge between proprietary CAD platforms. Features high-performance WebGPU browser rendering for 3D models, BIM, and G-code, alongside secure on-premise deployment.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source cad repository and 3d viewer for engineers and makers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Parsing and accurately rendering diverse CAD formats (STEP, IGES), BIM (IFC), and G-code via custom WebGPU kernels requires deep computational geometry and graphics engineering.
What it would actually take: A real CAD/BIM viewer platform requires robust geometric kernel bindings (such as Open CASCADE compiled to WebAssembly) to tessellate B-Rep models into meshes, specialized parsing for IFC and CNC G-code toolpaths, and custom WebGPU rendering pipelines with spatial indexing (BVH) for massive assemblies. These require specialized expertise in 3D computer graphics, WebAssembly optimization, and computational geometry.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 95 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 96 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install) · hn · 2026-04-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- CADara · hn · 2026-05-08 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FreeCAD 1.1 · ph · 2026-03-30 · 218 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- rcam · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Open-source Robotics · hn · 2026-01-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- We made Arcad, a parametric CAD in the browser, free and no signup · hn · 2026-08-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Vibe Code your 3D Models · hn · 2026-02-27 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Arcentry - 3D infrastructure diagrams · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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