CADder
Blender CAD file import Addon & Direct SolidWorks Bridge
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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 59%) · 1 view
Niche: creative and developer tool plugins · 128 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Bridging SolidWorks and Blender requires deep reverse engineering of CAD kernels, COM/OLE IPC mechanisms for SolidWorks, and complex B-Rep to polygonal mesh tessellation algorithms.
What it would actually take: Building this requires a SolidWorks add-in in C++ or C# communicating via named pipes or local sockets to a Python Blender addon. The hard parts are writing a custom tessellation/meshing pipeline that preserves sharp edges, vertex normals, and hierarchy metadata without using proprietary Autodesk/Siemens libraries, along with real-time bidirectional synchronization between two disparate 3D engines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #76 of 148 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
- CADder-SW-Bridge · github · 2026-09-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- freecad_solidworks_plugin · github · 2026-10-20 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install) · hn · 2026-04-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Fusion to Blender Bridge · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- BlenderSTEP · github · 2026-11-01 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- DLSS5-composite-node-for-blender · github · 2026-09-22 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Roblox-BlenderBridge · github · 2026-09-30 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- CAD-wise · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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